NYC Food Truck Lunch: Maple Grilled Ham & Cheese From Snowday
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The only thing better than enjoying a tasty lunch from an award-winning food truck is supporting a good cause at the same time.
The Snowday food truck was founded last year, and they won the 2014 Vendy Award for Rookie of the Year, which was proudly on display outside the truck.
Snowday works with Drive Change, a food truck social enterprise that hires, teaches and empowers formerly incarcerated youth from 16-25 years old. It teaches them culinary and life skills to provide the kids with a brighter future.
We're all for a program that gives young people a better future, and we encourage everyone to visit the Drive Change website to find out more (and to donate if you can), but we're here to talk about the food!
Snowday was founded in upstate New York, where maple syrup is a way of life. That's why nearly everything on the menu has a maple syrup component.
Snowday has meals with a main course and two sides for $13, but the day we went, it was ribs. Maple glazed ribs sound great, but is a bit too messy for lunch at the office. They also had butternut squash soup the day we went.
Instead, we ordered a grilled cheese sandwich. A basic grilled cheese is $7, but you can add pesto or chutney for $2, or grilled ham for $3. Count us in for the ham!
The sandwich was grilled until the bread was very crispy. The bread was fairly soaked in maple syrup, although that didn't soften it up any.
Inside the bread was a slice of grilled ham and cheese, all with that great maple flavor. We can't tell you exactly what type of cheese was used, but it was on the milder side.
There was only one slice of ham, but it was fairly thick and grilled, and the taste came through just fine. This was not the ham you get in a normal deli sandwich. It's more of a main course-type ham. We would have liked another slice, but it wasn't essential to enjoying the sandwich.
You can see how much syrup was used from the amount left at the bottom of the container. And this wasn't the overly-sweet Aunt Jemima syrup-type product. It was pure New York State maple syrup.
Our biggest problem with the Snowday food truck is finding it. They don't seem to have a regular weekday schedule, but we found them via Twitter on 5th Ave between 13th-14th St, outside the New School. Their website is here, and they also seem to spend quite a bit of time in Brooklyn.
It's not easy tracking down the Snowday truck, but we can tell you it's worth it.
