New York is gearing up to issue 500 new licenses for carts in the city, but the catch is that the carts are only allowed to sell fresh vegetables and fruits. No hot dogs. No Polish sausages. No giant sodium-avalanche pretzels with frighteningly plastic shiny cheese-stuff. I'm pretty sure that even a vegetarian chick pea falafel is illegal!
I'm all about tradition, but can I get a "hells yes"? Do you know how much I would patronize such a cart? A ton. Seriously, if I don't plan ahead during the day, my only options for vegetation near my office are either to go to a very large suburban grocery store in the next suburb over and dig through their precut options or swing through McDonald's and get one of those dismal apple and walnut trays. That's it! Do you know what I wouldn't give for a full-service, all-healthy fast-food joint? A place where the majority of the choices are completely wonderful, well-balanced and loaded up with vities? As God is my witness, if I won millions of dollars in the lottery, I would make that venture happen. No French fries. No scary gray meat. No trans fats or high fructose corn syrup or scary lettuce that is coated with some kind of youth chemical because it never rots. Smoothies instead of milk shakes, steel-cut oatmeal instead of the soggy grease bombs that pose as croissant sandwiches. Grilled chicken and poached salmon instead of nuggets and Filet-O-Fish. And glorious naked vegetation as far as the eye can see. A thing of beauty, that's what that is.
So yay for New York and their fresh fruits and veggies carts! Now get cracking on Whole Fast Foods, okay?
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