Win a Street Truck Party From “This is Why You’re Fat”
“This is Why You’re Fat” the book comes out next week, and to celebrate they’re having a food truck scavenger hunt in NYC next Thursday. It involves taking your photo with 6 different incredibly gross items from 6 different NYC food trucks. Here’s all the info direct from TIWYF co-founder Jessica Amason:
This is Why You’re Fat is taking over NYC’s most popular food trucks for a day, giving the nation’s fascination with fatty foods the 2.0 treatment, all over again! I’ve created a Twitter contest involving six of Manhattan’s most popular Twittering food trucks to join the *Gross Food Movement and celebrate the blog to book that made it all happen.
When: Oct. 29 (the week of publication), from 11am to end of day.
Where: Throughout Manhattan (mostly downtown locations).
All the contest rules, plus a sneak peak at the list of the 6 food trucks that will be participating is after the jump.
The Twittering Food Trucks
The Treats Truck
Cupcake Stop Truck
The Bistro Truck
Wafels & Dinges
NYC Cravings Truck
Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice CreamThe Contest
Every 20 minutes This is Why You’re Fat (@tiwyf) will be twittering the locations of each truck as they move through the city. Each truck will be creating their own This is Why You’re Fat-inspired menu item for the day. Fans must hit each truck over the course of the day and tweet a pic of themselves eating the This is Why You’re Fat special item. The first person to tweet pics of themselves eating all six items will win a private food cart party of their choice with 25 of their friends plus This is Why You’re Fat swag including a free copy of the book! In addition, the food cart with the most popular This is Why You’re Fat item will be featured on Thisiswhyyourefat.com and added to their menu for good!
I don’t know what I’m more excited about… the scavenger hunt, or the prospect of trying 6 new ultra gross creations from the six food trucks listed above. As he said, most of the carts will be Downtown- but I’m hoping at least one will be in Midtown. (On Thursdays the Treats Truck is usually parked on 38th and 5th, so I’m hoping we’ll at least be able to get to try their gross concoction.)
Posted: 3:45 pm, October 20th, 2009 under Event, This is Why You're Fat.
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It’s too bad that more then half of the twitter stops are sugary/sweet food.
I’m excited to see the Cravings Truck option. It’s going to be fried and messy I hope!
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Is it too much to ask the Treats Truck to make a sandwich using their pecan butterscotch bars as the “bread”. I think it would be great with some marshmallow fluff or a belgian waffle in the middle.
or just batter and deep fry everything…
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“from 11pm to end of day.”
Shouldn’t that be, from 11 *am* to end of day? otherwise, I’ve got it made, as who else would be downtown at that time of night.
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@cosi – good call. i fixed it…
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Damn, Good luck to those trying out ALL 6 heart-n-arteries clogging items. Will the winner live to see their own Street Trcuk Party?
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[...] We’re excited that the buzz has already started to build for this on Grub Street, Midtown Lunch, and even a column in Crain’s New York. We’ll be running around from truck to truck [...]
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Twittering is still for twits. Which makes this contest, well…..
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great idea but only if you don’t have a job!!! :(
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Or if you’re self-employed… and a twit! ;^)
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[...] and tweet pics will win a private food truck party for 25 friends! (Grub Street, NBC New York, Midtown Lunch, and Crain’s New York, among others.) Make sure you spread the word and wear loose clothing [...]
that website is like a car accident – you slow down to look, but you certainly don’t want any part of that…