New Asheville food truck, the Pink Taco Truck, hits streets

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   Pink Taco Truck or Marni Graves July 6, 2011

   I just want to make a quick response to the comments. Although there is a copyright on the name Pink Taco, my truck is named the Roadrunner. I will be serving a dish I call the pink taco, and giving part of it's proceeds to the local organization 'Beauty through Cancer.' Locally I would like to be known as the Pink Taco Truck. It is suggestive, although my desire is to use the name pink to raise awareness and funds for cancer, being a two time breast cancer survivor myself. To answer the question on how these trucks operate, we are allowed, in the city limits to make an arrangement with a property owner to park on their property. The rules for the CBD, downtown, should change in a few months and then you may see a lot with several trucks on it. Suzy and I will be on the Edge radio this Friday describing more.

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   Bear June 21, 2011

   Food trucks are fine as long as they're not down town.

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   AOD June 20, 2011

   Laughed out loud at the name…hilarious!

   So how do these taco trucks function if they're legally not allowed downtown? Do they operate outside the city limits? I've seen a few down here in South Asheville, would love to see more!

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   ashevillain June 20, 2011

   Creative? No.
   Double entendre? Yes.
   Copyright infringement? Probably.
   Any worse than 'Hooters'? No.

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   Nate June 20, 2011

   It's also already in use as the name of a taco "chain" out west, which makes frequent and deliberate use of the double entendre.

   Thumbs up for more food trucks. Thumbs down for juvenile, "suggestive" names.

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   Meg June 18, 2011

   Erm…I don't mean to be vulgar or rude. And I'm sure the tacos are tasty….but pink taco is also slang for female genitalia.

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