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Crowd devours samples at Food Truck Festival

By Karen Given

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  June 12, 2012

More than 4,500 people flooded the lawn at the University of Massachusetts Boston Campus Center on Sunday to enjoy the bright sunshine and sample beef barbacoa and pickled slaw tacos from Staff Meal, wasabi lobster on coleslaw from Bite Into Maine, and ice cream pizza from Emack and Bolio’s. The trucks form a wide circle and lines of hungry ticket holders snake inward like spokes on a wagon wheel. This is the first of 10 Food Truck Festivals of New England between now and late October, in venues from Salem, N.H., to Newport, R.I.

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