SAVE OUR GAZEBOS

If you are an adventurous foodie and love street food, and have tried new cuisines in London,s vibrant markets, You must have by now become aware of a   new phenomenon . The ghastly vehicle conversions called food trucks.They are conversions of mostly old van type vehicles like ambulances, post office vans , any van and sometimes incredibly new makes of vans. These trendied up yuppy type vans will I suppose make your local authority,s health and safety crew  rate your work environment five star . Because you will be cooking and cleaning in a compact environment  with your hand wash sink, easy to clean walls, hot water dispenser, fridge et al.But from an experienced trader point of view,they are responsible for what I call a lack of seniority .Where the Biblical  first has now become the last that  is now blighting the street food trade in London. Let me explain.In the beginning, there were original markets of note, for example Camden ,Borough and so forth.The corporate organizers of these markets built stalls for you. All you needed to do was turn up with your food . Ready prepared or not. When those markets over expanded at the expense of the original traders, the  gazebo style markets emerged whereby individual market  organizers either bought or rented or required traders to bring along their  own gazebos. This method of street trading is slowly becoming anachronistic as mega pop up food markets takeover. London has seen loads of Pop up music events this summer where the organizers and promoters have declared that "LONDON,S BEST STREET FOODS WILL BE ON OFFER"! and yet on application you find that their preferred stalls are truck types. I wager that the best street food you will have tasted or will ever taste will come from either an old style market stall or a gazebo run stall . This is because majority of these stallholders have more delicious original and indigenous recipes they want to share with  adventurous food lovers rather than money to convert a van. That said,  I must admit that I have seen one or two conversions that I have liked but those were the exceptions .I lie. There are some pretty conversions out there. You only have to check out street food traders organization websites to find them but the point is that  we, the gazebo carrying traders need time and equal invitations to compete with the trucks! Gazebo stalls offer real and authentic variety. Glorified jiffy vans offer a zillion other ways to cook a burger.!