22 May 2010 So much for reality television

22 May 2010 So much for reality television


Food TV is supposedly filming in the neighborhood.

“From the Food Network:

THE GREAT FOOD TRUCK RACE

Premieres: August 15th at 10pm ET/PT

Tyler Florence hosts as seven teams of the country’s best food truck cooks hit the road to sauté their way across America. Each week, the teams that sell the most food in the challenge city race to the next episode, and the losing team drives home. One food truck team comes out on top and wins a $50,000 grand prize!

We happened to see a brief newspaper item about this two weeks ago. So we decided to follow up. According to the Jonesborough weekly newspaper, there were to be three teams remaining in competition and selling food in Jonesborough today from 0800-2000.

We left here at 1230, hoping to find something unique or at least different for lunch. The designated area was empty of food trucks. They had packed up and gone elsewhere, perhaps to return at 1600.

We ate in a local restaurant, walked through a couple of shops, and did some grocery shopping before coming home. The contestants may be back tomorrow or Monday. We won’t be. I don’t care to make a 30 mile round trip to see a reality television show in progress.