I can hear an Ice Cream truck coming from blocks away and it’s instantly recognizable.
Why aren’t there Taco Trucks cruising around the neighborhood with an instantly recognizable sound and menu? All the grownups would come running outside waving to the Taco Truck.
The Taco Truck was invented in 1974 so it’s been 50 years now. I’ve known the sound of the Ice Cream Truck since I was like 3 years old, but I barely even know where the Taco Truck is. You’ve got to follow them around on social media…
The music is because those trucks drive around.
You can’t make tacos on the move, or any other kind of hot food really.
Which is why food trucks park in locations and operate
Business idea, solve the moving hot food issue and find a way to cook and sling tacos on the move. I don’t go out for ice cream trucks but I would for tacos.
I stopped being excited for the Ice Cream Truck decades ago, but if I heard the Taco Truck coming around I’d be super excited and run outside with a big grin.
Easy, precook and keep heated meat and bread at around 160F in a box with controlled temp and humidity.
Scoop veggie toppings on as needed, wrap and deliver on the spot.
Problem in the USA is if you make more than 11k as a sole proprietor you pay 12% federal taxes and also some state taxes, if you make more than 47k you pay 22%, and you can decrease your total taxable income with the costs of doing business and the depreciation of your vehicle or business building (you pay depreciation recapture if you sell but would have payed tax on the income of the sale regardless so it cancels out) so for example:
A person hypothetically sold an average of 25 tacos every day without break for a year they’d have $56,000
If it costs $3 to make each taco then $28,000
Assume the vehicle and equipment together is $100,000, on a 10 year loan at 6% apr then you’ll pay $13,322.52 for the year, that leaves $14,677.48
We’re gonna say the vehicle depreciation is an amount of $13,000 lost for tax purposes, you’d have to calculate that based on the vehicle specs.With all that you might owe like $236.95 to the IRS and more to state, so that brings us down to $14,440.53
Congratulations you’ve accomplished poverty without any employees AS LONG AS THE VEHICLE NEVER DRIVES ANYWHERE thanks to accruing a debt that would absolutely shatter you if anything went wrong.
Not with that attitude you won’t, partner!
*sloshing oil sounds, car slamming the accelerator, pedestrian yells in the distance*
Because they are not trying to target kids, in a semi-subliminal way like icecream trucks do.
In Glasgow ice cream trucks deliver drugs.
They do, you just can’t hear it
It’s like how elephants communicate
La cucaracha! La cucaracha!
I am really much more interested in why all the food trucks seem to be taco trucks. It’s like it’s some kind of national conspiracy.
Where is the pasta truck, the stir fry wok truck, the BLT truck, the foie gras truck, etc.?
Damn, I need to find a foie gras truck!
In Oklahoma totally 100% agree. We have 3 taco trucks in our small town. We’re the variety? I love a BLT truck, and definitely a stir fry truck. I love to start one but damn the cost of the trucks can get expensive.
Probably has to do with the fact that you can stock a whole menu with just a few ingredients and everyone likes a taco
You don’t have a variety of food trucks where you live? We have fry trucks, sushi, smoothies, fries, pierogies, burgers, you name it.
We have like eight food trucks in the region and they’re all Taco trucks.
La Cucaracha
I would buy lots of tacos from a truck playing “Lowrider”.
While it doesn’t answer your question this episode of the Decoder Ring podcast gives a good history of ice cream trucks and how they got the jingle.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/decoder-ring/id1376577202?i=1000446695402
I feel like I saw one once that was playing “The Elephant Never Forgets”, used as the theme song on the Mexican TV comedy El Chavo del Ocho
That song would work! Now to convince all the Taco Trucks to play the same song so we know when they’re around the corner.
The music is the delicious scent of tacos
I vote for “Mexican hat dance”
Just to be clear I don’t want to own and run a Taco Truck, I just heard the Ice Cream Truck and wished it was a Taco Truck.
Seems like missed opportunity to me, though.
Because no matter what you come up with, it’s going to be at least a little bit racist.
“It’s Raining Tacos” would work.
The song is not public domain though.
I’ve never even heard of taco trucks, that would be cool.
Well, there’s food trucks and many of those sell tacos. But no songs, usually, and are only moving when going to or from their setup location.
