roach coach

Food truck, sometimes referred to as a "roach coach"

He had picked up some of it on the construction site, enough to order a snack from the roach coach or understand a joke.

A day's work cannot begin until the catering van, called the "roach coach," rolls up.

I must leave now, for the roach coach is on the pier with its gedunks."

Mobile food trucks or "roach coaches," have been around for years, serving construction sites and other blue collar professions.

The proprietor of a port side roach coach dived for cover, along with several of his customers.

These vehicles are sometimes dysphemistically called "roach coaches" or "ptomaine wagons".

Barba appeared on the January 9, 2012 show of Fear Factor entitled "Roach Coach."

Meanwhile back at the Roach Coach, where Danny fills in for his father during vacation, Staten Island mobsters threaten to impinge on business.

A food truck, mobile kitchen, mobile canteen, roach coach, or catering truck is a mobile venue that sells food.

Roach coached baseball at the Lewis Institute (now part of Illinois Institute of Technology) from 1899 to 1902, leading the team to championships all four years.

The same roach coach sat at the mouth of the alley, only today, this time of morning, the thinning crowd of sweatshop workers lingered on the sidewalk with breakfast burritos and plastic containers of orange juice.

He dodges increasingly desperate phone messages from Cindy, a girl from home whom he'd spent a bored, lonely summer ambivalently dating while he worked long hours on his father's lunch truck (called "Dante's Roach Coach").

In one "Fogtown" battle scene, Rendezvous at Twin Peaks (1996, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 inches) a "roach coach" lunch truck is part of a scene including people on horseback and tanks on a hill.

After eating at an expensive restaurant with the wealthy father of a college friend, for example, Danny looks at his "Dante's Roach Coach" key ring and is struck by a "burning, overpowering rush of shame, though what it was for I couldn't say."

A Yale junior with working-class New Jersey origins, he finds himself besotted by Jack Kerouac even as he tends to the mundane details of his father's business, which is visiting offices and factories in a snack-vending vehicle that is nicknamed the Roach Coach.

The hero of this satirical novel about the social shuffling of the meritocracy is a working-class guy from central New Jersey who tries to navigate between his student life at Yale and "Dante's Roach Coach," his father's lunch truck, whose pull he can't quite escape.

A poster on the Thorn Tree travel forum gave this review of London's street food in a recent discussion: "Nasty greasy dog food burgers and hotdogs served from unhealthy diseased rotten filthy roach coach ex-airline trolleys.served by psychopathic toxic lowlife convicts on day release."