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The 20 Things You Need to Know For 2011

We figured out the people, places, and ideas that matter this year in Dallas. You're welcome.
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#7
Dallas will fully join the food truck movement.

Food trucks have already started popping up here and there. Usually for special events, but sometimes just because. People like Veletta Forsythe Lill, executive director of the Arts District, are pushing to make them a regular sight, and a food truck lot is being developed off Lower Greenville. So it’s happening. And here are some trucks we’d like to see in the forthcoming invasion.

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1. SWEET JESUS!
Twitter/Facebook tagline: “Come to Jesus”
Menu items: Dead Sea rolls, sacrificial lamb, fishes and loaves
Where you’d find the truck: Prestonwood Baptist parking lot


2. HAULIN’ BASS
Twitter/Facebook tagline: “Haul ass to Haulin’ Bass!”
Menu items: bass tacos, bass pizza, bass ice cream, and bass
Where you’d find the truck: Turtle Creek


3. TOPLESS SANDWICHES
Twitter/Facebook tagline: “Don’t sit where you eat”
Menu items: a variety of hot and cold sandwiches, served open-faced
Where you’d find the truck: Prestonwood Baptist parking lot


4. BLINTZKRIEG
Twitter/Facebook tagline: “Mach schnell!”
Menu items: brutally efficient blintzes, with sweet and savory fillings
Where you’d find the truck: outside The French Room


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