Making A Living Out Of Street Food
Today, on this most gorgeously drizzly day, I turn an entire year older. To celebrate we went to visit Warwick University and trade on the Piazza near the Union. As we have always suspected students have a strange affinity for toasties, and they left us with a...
A Day In The Life Of The Jabberwocky
Every event is a little different, but most of the time they will be something like this. It starts the day before, with a deep clean of the van. Cleaning is a pretty big theme here, brace yourselves. Every surface inside the van has to be scrubbed, then antibacked,...
Toastie Analytics
Today we were at the Farmer's Market in New Street again, watching the rain and serving a sudden rush of lamb toasties. It led to some thinking, some tea and a hypothesis. Our best selling toastie is the ham and cheese. When we first started toasting it represented...
Famous
Recently all sorts of new activities have been cropping up for us and the Beast. Street food is gradually gaining traction in Birmingham and nationally the whole idea is becoming more acceptable. This means there are lots of opportunities for free publicity going and,...
The Full Time Job
Today, in keeping with tradition, was a Wednesday. As the first Wednesday of the month it was also our second outing to the Birmingham farmer's market. The last one, a month earlier, had proven to be cold and windy but otherwise quite entertaining, so with the weather...
Staying In Touch With Your Food
Things have been crazy over the last week. To say the phone has been ringing off the hook would be inaccurate, what with it being a mobile, but there has been a lot going on. So much so that this week's post is about me extracting myself from the Jabberwocky inbox and...
Brum Yum Yum King’s Heath – Trader’s Perspective
Last Saturday was Brum Yum Yum. Foodie haven, street food bonanza and the most unexpected, tiring and exciting event in the year so far. Here is my perspective on how last Saturday went.
Anticipation
This week has been, and will continue to be, rather rushed. It's why I'm only just sitting down to start the blog now, at 9pm, rather than having spent the last three hours ponderously typing out the first few paragraphs while I potter round our various social media...
The Weather
I know it's a stupidly British thing to talk about, but pull up a cuppa, queue yourself a crumpet and lets have a communal moan about not complaining about the weather. Obviously in our line of work, what with most of that line being exposed the the elements, the...
The Return Of The Toastie
It's important that you read toastie in the title to rhyme with Jedi. Even if it makes you sound a little like an Essex native. That way I can justify any inadvertent Star Wars references later. He's back! After 6 weeks we finally have the Beast back on our drive, and...
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