If you were wondering why the hoards of naked old men were running rampant in San Francisco yesterday, it's because it was Bay to Breakers. Being new to the city, we had to get our first glimpse at this event, so we grabbed our wine in a can and headed down to the park.
What an unbelievable scene. Thousands of people stormed the streets, in all kinds of questionable, but hilarious, costumes. We saw old naked men, a zombie with a brain dangling in front of her face, a group of shuttle cocks and a lot of old naked men. As the masses stumbled through the park, one question kept popping up, where's the food?
Closer to the finish line, there were a few stands, which actually had decent food. Alaskan salmon burgers, some indian food, these stalls had more than just your average hot dogs and hamburgers (they had those too). But still, there were like 7 little stands vs. however many thousands of drunk people. If I know being drunk (and occasionally I do), there's only two things that make the experience better. 1) More booze and 2) awesome food.
So where were all the amazing street food vendors? - the magic curry kart, the creme brulee cart, lumpia cart, gumbo cart, bacon dog cart, toasty melts... You have literally thousands of drunk people who would be willing to cough up $5, $7, probably $10 for any kind of food. So what's the deal? Not only would you most likely kill it in sales, but you'd be doing everyone a favor by sobering them up ever so slightly. And when do most of the most amazing food experiences occur in young people's lives? When they're frickin hammered! You could have been ingrained in these people's bay to breakers experience forever.
That's why I'm calling all the food vendors out on this one. Sure, it probably was too much of a mess for anyone to want to get involved with, but an amazing opportunity was there. If I had seen any of the well known vendors in the park, I would have gotten in line and I'm positive at least a thousand people would have joined me.
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