- gaijinrunner / stranger flickr
- Eat me.
In Germany: guys with propane strapped to their backs and grills strapped to their fronts who make and sell sausages while walking around. It’s low overhead, fast, and WHY CAN’T WE HAVE THIS HERE. The New York Times has the story and the video: “Across Berlin, they walk the streets: half man and half machine... ‘I sink it’s a good idea. He can move every—wherever he want!'”
Now it is really lunchtime. I so, so wish one of these guys would walk up to me right outside the office.
Um….I can see a problem with KABOOM! Propane tank strapped to his back? Did I mention kaboom?
Not to mention stomach burns.
i saw these on a recent vacation to the EU. they were…awe inspiring.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/di…
Why is this a good idea exactly?
I recommend the ten gauge aluminum shirt.
I hope they don’t do that during the summer. Can you say heatstroke?
@6: they did it in the summer when I was there. They’re definitely all around Berlin, particularly in touristy areas (for obvious reasons.) They’ve been there for years…
you too can be a Grillwalker!
http://www.grillwalker.de/seiten/vers_en…
For some reason, Seattle has always had a problem with hot dogs except at baseball games.
You go to other parts of the country such as NYC and hot dogs a the main diet of most downtown workers. There is probably a word for why Seattlites think they’re too good for hot dogs but it escapes me now. Maybe there’s a lot of those vegan dickheads that boycott everything because its not made from tofu.
At baseball games in Japan, there are girls in ridiculous cheerleader costumes with little keg backpacks and taps in holsters on their waists. When you buy a draft Yebisu from them, they act like you just paid their way through college or something . It’s excellent.
@9: well, someone’s never been out in Seattle after dark…
@9 have you been outside chop suey/neumos/the comet? the hot dog culture is thriving and well here in seattle. theres also shorty’s, the dude that sells dogs in pioneer square during the day, and a couple of roving hot dog vendors that go ‘where the action is’. and most of those vendors have veggie dogs, and some of them have vegan dogs.
The hot dog culture. It’s a culture.
Like Harlem in the jazz age, or the Bloomsbury group. Like that, except instead of inventing a major musical or literary genre and forming a multifaceted social network around it, instead you buy a hot dog and, you eat it.
If these guys were in Seattle, we’d find a way to outlaw them (health code, safety code, code code). Wurst idea ever.
@9: that word is “nitrates”.
I lived in Berlin for 3 years and there was a price war between the Grillwalker and the Grillroller, a guy in a wheelchair who sold his own Bratwuerste (for one euro and ten cents).
i was photographing the grillwalkers yesterday when walking around alexanderplatz (exact same place where the image linked to in #3 were, but closer to the U-bahn stairs/entrance) – was going to post to questionland about them to find out why nobody’s done this yet in the states. and now you’ve beat me to it!
okay after 1am and i need to finish going through shit since i’m flying out in under 30 hours. hope seattle still has the sunshine i heard it’s been having when i return…yeah i won’t hold my breath.
Calling this “new” is pretty weak. The Grillwalkers were there at least five years ago when I first loved them, and they were still there two weeks ago when I last enjoyed their delicious street meat.
Just because the NYT finally found out about it doesn’t make it “news”.
But yeah, we should totally have these in Seattle. http://grillwalker.de/ has been offering licensing deals for at least five years.