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NY Food Truck Lunch: Lentil Quinoa Wrap From The Green Pirate Juice Truck

Perry, the man behind New York Street Food, brings you his latest review on New York City food trucks.

According to their website, the Green Pirate Juice truck has been around since 2007, but we hadn't been there before. That's probably because we don't generally seek out vegan food, but the Cinnamon Snail has opened our minds to how good vegan food can be.

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Menu From Green Pirate Juice Truck
(credit: New York Street Food)

Now that the Green Pirate Juice Truck is a regular at the some of the food truck lots around town, we caught up with them Thursday at the Hudson Square Food Truck Lot. In addition to half a dozen fresh squeezed juices and smoothies, they had a special wrap of the day. We ordered the Lentil Quinoa Wrap for $9.

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Since the truck specializes in fresh squeezed juices, we had to try one, and went for a 12 oz. Hot Pink Limeade for $5.

The wrap was pretty substantial, stuffed with all sorts of goodies. In addition to the lentils and quinoa named in the dish title, there was avocado, carrot, tomato, spinach and cucumber.

All of the fresh veggies gave the wrap a crispy crunch, and pulling it all together was a lime cashew Caesar dressing. The dressing wasn't strong, but its taste was apparent in the wrap.

Hot Pink Limeade Smoothie
(credit: New York Street Food)

For a drink, the Hot Pink Limeade was really interesting. It was made with sweet beets, lime, apple and cucumber. The drink had a gorgeous fuchsia color, and you could actually taste each of the ingredients. I'm not a big fresh-squeezed juice person, but this was quite tasty and refreshing.

Between the wrap and the juice, this was one of the healthiest lunches I've ever had. Healthiness is not what I look for in a lunch, but if the food and drink taste good, I'll take the healthy side effects too.

You can find the Green Pirate Juice Truck on Twitter here or on our Mobile Munchies twitter feed. Your doctor will thank you, but so will your taste buds.

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