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The picture below shows a couple of young people choosing their food from a food truck. They seem to be enjoying what they are doing. When did food trucks start? What did they offer? Who came up with the idea? Read the text to find out.
Poniższe zdjęcie przedstawia młodych ludzi zamawiających jedzenie w food trucku. Wygląda na to, że sprawia im to przyjemność. Kiedy powstały food trucki? Jaką miały ofertę? Kto jest pomysłodawcą food trucków? Przeczytaj tekst, aby się dowiedzieć.

Have you ever tried anything from a food truck? Read the text to learn more about the history of food trucks.
History Of Food TrucksDid you realise that there are more than 23,000 food trucks in America? In recent years, the culture of food trucks has gainedgained enormousenormous popularity, but how did it all start? Food trucks have been used for hundreds of years since the Roman era, when the first food cartscarts appeared. This idea graduallygradually evolvedevolved into the food truck as we know it today as trucks developed and turned into functional mobilemobile kitchens.
The first food truck was the chuckwagonchuckwagon. It providedprovided loggersloggers and cowboys in the American wilderness with perishableperishable food. You'd often find beans, curedcured pork, coffee, and biscuitsbiscuits on a chuckwagon. Additionally, it would transport wood for fires and water. Many also served as mobile dental offices and barbershopsbarbershops. If you move forward to the 1890s, these early food vendorsvendors started serving food to college students. Wagons would be parked and sell sausages outside the residences of such famous universities as Yale, Princeton, and Harvard.
The Wienermobile, built in 1936, was maybe the very first food truck that we would identify as such. The Wienermobile, which sold hot dogs while it travelled the United States, was designed to promote Oscar Meyer wienerswieners. It showed up at schools, orphanagesorphanages, festivals, and different medical facilitiesfacilities. By the 1950s, ice cream trucks began travelling across American communitiescommunities. Children (and adults) from all around the area were drawn towere drawn to them by their upbeatupbeat music, and the food truck's popularity was starting to become clear.
Mexican loncheras (lunch trucks) have been serving delicious cuisinecuisine since the 1960s, but the first food truck to serve tacos wouldn't appear until 1974. Raul Martinez established King Taco after purchasingpurchasing an outdatedoutdated ice cream van. Even though his friends thought he was insaneinsane, he started a shop outside an East LA club and made $70 worthworth of taco sales (over $530 in today’s money) on the first night. Martinez was the first taco truck owner, but he wasn't alone for very long. „GreaseGrease trucks” were a typical sight if you attended Rutgers University in 1979. These mobile food vendors offered „fat sandwiches,” which were simply rolls loaded with two cheeseburgers, fries, lettuce, and tomatoes. So wonderful, yet so unhealthy. In a few places, these food trucks were becoming very successful. The larger currentcurrent food truck revolution wouldn't start until 2008, though. You will learn more about modern food trucks in the next section.
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2. In the wild west, food wagons sold beans and cured outdated meat.
3. Ice-cream trucks were playing upbeat grease music to attract customers.
4. The Wienermobile would stop at orphanages and medical communities facilities.
5. The insane current food truck revolution started in 2008.
Answer the questions below. Write 2–3 sentences.
What surprised you the most about food trucks from the text?
Do you buy food from food trucks? Why? Why not?
Why have food trucks gained so much popularity recently?
Słownik
/ ˈbɑːrbərʃɑːps / / ˈbɑːrbərʃɑːp /
męskie zakłady fryzjerskie [męski zakład fryzjerski]
/ ˈbɪskɪts / / ˈbɪskɪt /
chleb biszkoptowy (in America a savoury, flour‑based bread served almost always at breakfast time)
/ kɑːts / / kɑːt /
wozy [wóz]
/ ˈtʃʌk ˌwaɡ(ə)n /
wóz z kuchnią i zapasem jedzenia ciągnięty przez zaprzęg konny
/ kəˈmjuːnɪtɪz / / kəˈmjuːnɪti /
lokalne społeczności [lokalna społeczność]
/ kwɪˈziːn /
kuchnia lokalna
/ kjʊəd / / kjʊə /
wędzony, marynowany [wędzić, marynować]
/ ˈkʌrənt /
obecny/obecna, aktualny/aktualna
/ ɪˈnɔːməs /
ogromny/ogromna
/ ɪˈvɒlvd / / ɪˈvɒlv /
rozwijały się [rozwijać się]
/ fəˈsɪlɪtɪz / / fəˈsɪlɪti /
obiekty [obiekt]
/ ɡeɪnd / / ɡeɪn /
zyskały [zyskać]
/ ˈɡrædʒʊəli /
stopniowo
/ ɡriːs /
tłuszcz
/ ɪnˈseɪn /
szalony/szalona
/ ˈlɒɡəz / / ˈlɒɡə /
drwale [drwal]
/ ˈməʊbaɪl /
mobilny/mobilna
/ ˈɔːfənɪdʒɪz / / ˈɔːfənɪdʒ /
sierocińce [sierociniec]
/ aʊtˈdeɪtɪd /
przestarzały/przestarzała
/ ˈperɪʃəbl̩ /
łatwo psujący się/łatwo psująca się
/ prəˈvaɪdɪd / / prəˈvaɪd /
dostarczały [dostarczać]
/ ˈpɜːtʃəsɪŋ / / ˈpɜːtʃəs /
nabycie, kupowanie [nabywać, kupować]
/ ˈʌpbiːt /
wesoły/wesoła, optymistyczny/optymistyczna
/ ˈvendəz / / ˈvendə /
sprzedawcy [sprzedawca/sprzedawczyni]
/ wə drɔːn tuː / / bi drɔːn tu /
byli przyciągani [być przyciąganym/przyciąganą]
/ ˈwiːnərz / / ˈwiːnə /
kiełbaski, frankfurterki [kiełbaska, frankfurterka]
/ wɜːtheta /
wartość
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