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The teams competing for the season 5 title are: Beach Cruiser (Venice, Calif.) Chatty Chicken Truck (Chattanooga, Tenn.), Gourmet Graduates (Providence, R.I.), Let There Be Bacon (Cleveland), Lone Star Chuck Wagon (Houston), Madres Mexican Meals (Norwalk, Calif.), Middle Feast (Los Angeles) and Military Moms (Fort Drum, N.Y.).
This season is seven episodes long and the stops along the race include: Santa Barbara, CA; Tucson, AZ; Austin, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; St. Louis, MO; Mobile, AL, and Tampa, Naples and Key West, FL.
As the food trucks advertise their locations on social media and local newspapers do stories on the race while it is filming, the order the food trucks are eliminated can be determined. If you are interested in seeing which trucks are eliminated in each episode, and who the final two trucks are, continue reading. Obviously it is a spoiler, but it just reveals the final two trucks and not the winner.
1st Truck Eliminated - Chatty Chicken Truck (Tuscon, AZ article listed the trucks that were in Tuscon and Chatty Chicken Truck was not listed)
2nd Truck Eliminated - Gourmet Graduates
3rd Truck Eliminated - Military Moms (Oklahoma City article listed the remaining trucks and Military Moms is not listed)
4th Truck Eliminated - Madres Mexican Meals (St. Louis article listed the remaining trucks and Madres Mexican Meals was not listed)
5th Truck Eliminated - Beach Cruiser (This article lists the final 3, and Beach Cruiser was not listed.)
6th Truck Eliminated - Let There Be Bacon (This video is of someone on site in Key West who reveals the final two trucks)
Final Two Trucks - Middle Feast and Lone Star Chuckwagon.
Looks like the bottom three from this week are the bottom three for the first few weeks. I will say that both Gourmet Graduates and Military Moms have the same problem - what kind of truck are they? If you have to use your phone to look up what a truck sales, something is off with your branding.
ReplyDeleteThe chicken people were heartbreaking, but they had a defeatist attitude almost from the get go. They said they wanted the truck more than anyone, but I definitely did not see that.
ReplyDeleteI will counter that comfort food means different things to different people depending on your region, ethnicity and the like. Out here in LA comfort food could be anything from fried chicken to phô to tamales. It's such a broad term that it's all but meaningless. Narrowing that definition would help. I agree though, the desigm team could/should have worked to fix this.
ReplyDeleteThought the same thing on oil. If I were them I'd bought as much as my budget would have allowed for. More is best when you aren't sure and it's vital to your truck
ReplyDeleteRe Gourmet Graduates, I get their POV (new and modern), but I don't think it's clear to the general public and agree w/ both MoHub and Carrie that the FN design team fell short in conveying it.
ReplyDeleteLOL @ the Lenny McNab comparison...UGH, just UGH. Someone please make him disappear...and soon. Have to agree about the oil issue...how in hell could a team who is preparing fried chicken not get enough oil...it irritated me so much that they could be that short sighted that I think they deserved to go home. They clearly aren't ready for a food truck.
ReplyDeleteI got thie impression Gourmet Graduates were doing elevated college dining-hall food, so things are even more confusing.
ReplyDeleteEvidently, they didn't know the capacity of the fryers. However, that still doesn't excuse them shutting up shop and taking all three team members to buy supplies.
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha...chuckwagon! Good one!
ReplyDeleteI wondered why they weren't at Costco like the others...
ReplyDeleteSo they said, but that's also a meaningless term, as most dining halls are diverse in their cuisine.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they thought shopping local supermarket would save time in long run. But it's not unusual to see some go and some not. Depends on truck and what they serve.
ReplyDeleteyeah i agree with that
ReplyDeleteThey just weren't prepared. I wonder if the contestants are given tutorials as to how to run and maintain the truck?
ReplyDeleteIf they cooked fried chicken in bulk, wouldn't they need buy from a restaurant supplier, or go to Sam's club or Costco?
I'm sure they do, but nerves make it easy to forget everything they are shown (remember the team who went out first last season because they couldn't remember how to get their grill running?)
ReplyDeleteTeams always have a choice where to shop and Costco isn't always advantageous, though they seemed like a perfect truck for that store.
There were many "oops" (crashes, tickets, propane issues) moments from last year. I understand nerves must play into it, too, to a point. Live and learn. I hope they bounce back.
ReplyDeleteI think they do a lot of shopping in Restaurant Depot, which is all over the country.
ReplyDeleteGourmet Grads were so bad. Really "Mock Pockets" is gourmet? Ground beef and nasty American cheese in a wrap is not even good dorm food and the "Gourmet" on the truck only would attract the wrong crowd.
ReplyDeleteThose kids were lazy too, quitting early, walking around when they should have been working. Johnson and Wales must be sad those guys are what they produced.
They are serving military food, the stuff nobody wants to eat! Seem like nice ladies, but the food does not look very good.
ReplyDeleteOr even better, Restaurant Depot.
ReplyDelete"Mock Pockets" an imitation of the nastiest food on Earth..... not good, and certainly at odds with the whole "gourmet" theme.
ReplyDeleteSOme schools have great food these days. I got lobster at Brandeis, no wonder tuition is so high!
ReplyDeleteSoutherners move so sloooooow!
ReplyDeleteIf Middle Feast goes to to Georgia or some place it could be interesting, everyone there thinks they are Muslims sent to destroy America....
ReplyDeleteOIl is expensive at the supermarket though, they needed the huge jugs of it.
ReplyDeleteThe Bacon guys bought Hormel Chili it looked like for their nachos, gross.........
ReplyDeleteGourmet Grads were so bad. Really "Mock Pockets" is gourmet? Ground beef and nasty American cheese in a wrap is not even good dorm food and the "Gourmet" on the truck only would attract the wrong crowd.
ReplyDeleteThose kids were lazy too, quitting early, walking around when they should have been working. Johnson and Wales must be sad those guys are what they produced. The kid with MS selling was a bad arse though.
Gourmet Grads were so bad. Really "Mock Pockets" is gourmet? Ground beef and nasty American cheese in a wrap is not even good dorm food and the "Gourmet" on the truck only would attract the wrong crowd.
ReplyDeleteThose kids were lazy too, quitting early, walking around when they should have been working. Johnson and Wales must be sad those guys are what they produced. The kid with MS selling was a bad ass though.
The Bacon guys were buying Hormel Chili for their nachos, that is just gross.... I can make a decent chili in like 45 minutes.
ReplyDeleteMMMMMM military food....
ReplyDeleteSeemed like a nice family, but man do Southerners move sloooooow!
ReplyDeleteThey have lots of stuff ready to heat and serve that could be sold in a food truck. Shrimp on the skewers, pre grilled chicken etc...
ReplyDeleteJust dress it up a little and its probably better than what Military Moms were making.
They should have attended the CIA, their dining hall food is better than what they were making on that truck.
ReplyDeleteThe Bacon guys were buying canned Hormell chili, if I paid for that I would be mad.
ReplyDeleteWhat if they served MREs? There's a scary thought!
ReplyDeleteIn traveling around the country, I've found that speed is in inverse proportion to level of politeness. The farther South you go, the more polite and slower the service; the farther North, the ruder but more efficient/speedy service.
ReplyDeleteI think he had CP rather than MS, but either way, he was a star.
ReplyDeleteNobody is going to patronize a food truck that buys ready-cooked food and simply reheats it.
ReplyDeletePrecisely. Food Trucks in this day and age are expected to provide fresh, homestyle food.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, I realized that after I posted.
ReplyDeleteThe bacon guys bought Hormel canned chilli on two shows so far...
ReplyDelete(The olive garden uses fake chicken breast made out of parts fused together, yeah that is a bit off topic). A pre grilled chicken breast with a fresh made sauce would be better than canned chili or a PB&J sammich the moms were serving.
Some of that stuff is expected. Frozen peas are actually very good, canned chicken broth is fine in a pinch. But even hungry stoner college kids often think canned chili is too foul to eat.
ReplyDeletei personally am voting for the Madres food truck, although they came in the bottom three twice, the second time was due to beach cruiser taking over their food truck from the challenge, its not really fair, considering that its about your ability to make your food, not making someone else's food. It shows your a good chef, but if chatty's chicken switched with Madres for the whole show, Madres still probably would have lost, since they have little to no experience with that, Madres theme is home cooking, like literaly, mom makes it, his actual mom is on his team, chatty's chicken was just deep fried chicken, not that there's anything wrong with that, but the difference is seen in many other trucks, so the truckstop challenge was really bad
ReplyDeleteI would have liked too see the Bacon guys or MaDres win the food truck, seems like they could have really used it.
ReplyDeleteOf the 2 finalists I am for the Feast people, the Texas crew seem a little jerky.
That is some nasty canned crap which I would not feed to my dogs!
ReplyDeleteWow Food trucks... I am aggressively waiting for it.
ReplyDeleteI'm still hanging in there;) so sorry to hear the harsh comments...
ReplyDeleteMy brother in-law made that for me;)
ReplyDeleteWow thanks for the support
ReplyDeleteI'm still hanging in there sorry for disappointing a few of you...
ReplyDeleteIt's a tradition in our county for are fair.. The Calaveras jumping frog jubilee sorry you are not educated on this before speaking out of context;)
ReplyDeleteWe visit Murphy's a lot as we are wine club members at two wineries there. We ate there once, and never will again. There are too many outstanding options to waste my time and money at this kitschy little Sh*t hole.
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