FAYETTEVILLE — Cindy Bradford and Amber Roberts spent 30 minutes waiting in line Saturday morning for sandwiches.
But the friends from Springdale said it was well worth it to get a taste of the meatball sliders served by Nonna’s Kitchenette, one of the competitors in the third season of The Great Food Truck Race, which airs on the Food Network.
“The meat is really moist,” Bradford said as she snacked on the slider outside of the truck during Saturday’s Fayetteville Farmers Market. “It’s kind of falling apart, which is disappointing, but the sauce is amazing.”
At A Glance
The Great Food Truck Race is a reality television series that being Aug. 15, 2010, on the Food Network. It’s hosted by Tyler Florence. The third season begins airing Aug. 19.
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The Great Food Truck Race, hosted by Tyler Florence, is a cross-country competition. Each week, the food trucks stop in a city to purchase food, prepare it and sell it out of their trucks. Local businesses the trucks stopped at for ingredients included Ozark Natural Foods, Little Bread Co., and Maudie’s Seafood Market.
The truck that sells the least food each week gets eliminated from the competition.
Five trucks, Coast of Atlanta, Pop-A-Waffle, Momma’s Grizzly Grub, Seoul Sausage and Nonna’s Kitchenette, pulled into Fayetteville Farmers Market on Saturday.
Despite the heat, long lines stretched around each of the trucks to taste sausages, sandwiches, tacos and desserts.
Cole and Caroline Penick, along with their young daughter Charlotte are big fans of the show. They said they did their research on who would be in Fayetteville and planned to sample food from each of the trucks.
The couple said even though they lacked tortilla shells, they were quite pleased with the Susitna Tacos they tried from Momma’s Grizzly Grub, which came all the way from Wasilla, Alaska, for the competition.
“It’s very unique,” Cole Penick said. “I wouldn’t have made it with the coleslaw and the grapes, but it’s a great touch.”