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Mass. colleges join food trucks trend

The tantalizing aromas of earthy empanadas and tangy barbecue chicken mingling in the air lure a small crowd to the rumbling, bright red truck parked smack in the middle of Northeastern University’s Snell Library Quad.

Outside the Hungry Hungry Husky food truck, students and professors jockey to scan the menu. Reaching up to a delivery window for a heaping tray of pita chips and some fresh guacamole, Lauryn Coccoli gushes, “Ah, you’re the best, thank you so much!” She is met with an appreciative nod by a worker inside the school’s food truck.

Comments

Ah, the short memories of this country! As a grad student at Wayne State University in Detroit in 1971 I regularly lunched at a food truck on Cass Avenue. My first tastes of falafel and hummus helped make me a lifelong vegetarian!