Word: cartful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chipwich cart. Chipwiches were the marketing phenomenon of Summer 1981. All around the city, hundreds of identical little brown carts sprang up and sold a single remarkable item; a scoop of ice cream between two chocolate-chip cookies, I only began to pass up the chipwich vendor when I realized that at a dollar a shot, I could buy two david's cookies and a small scoop of Haagen Dazs...
...felafel cart. I ate here whenever I had lunch with a vegetarian...
...dried fruit and nuts cart. There were several of these around the city, all leased out by the Moorues. The vendors were not cult members themselves, but as soon as i found out that Chairman Sun was getting all the profits, I divested myself of all financial ties with the carts. I broke my policy only once, when the vendor appeared with her six-year-old violinist brother and the best sign I saw all summer: "if you like my brother Stevie's music, please buy my dried fruit and nuts...
...Chinese specialties cart. This vendor sold limp, soggy, overfried wontons, eggrolls and vegetable tempura I loved...
...cream and pretzel cart. This vendor gave out a free pretzel with every 75-cent egg cream he sold. At the deli around the corner, you could get an egg cream for 40 cents and a pretzel for a quarter...