Submitted by CARPE DIEM

Pulitzer-prize winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold gets paid to eat wherever he wants. And yet, several times a week he chooses to pull over to the side of the road and eat food served on a paper plate — out of a truck. “I’ve probably been to 3,000 trucks in my life,” says Gold, who writes for the alternative newspaper LA Weekly. “It’s a hobby, you might say.” Many Angelenos share Gold’s love of the quick and inexpensive meals, with blogs and online maps dedicated to the quest for the perfect taco.

Not everyone is so enamored, however. Los Angeles County officials recently passed a law that makes it a misdemeanor to park a taco truck in the same place for more than an hour. Violators face fines of up to $1,000 or six months in jail.

Who would object to cheap street tacos? Certainly not consumers, they love the taco trucks, and LA food critic Gold describes a great street taco as “happiness translated into the language of warm tortillas, finely chopped onion and a hot sauce that brings you to your knees.” It’s probably obvious, but find out here who doesn’t like taco trucks and would love to put them all out of business.

Watch a slideshow on LA taco trucks here.

Read NYTimes article here.

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