Just in time for the cold weather, a sausage-centric food-mobile is set to join the area’s fleet of food trucks.
When The Sausage Syndicate gets rolling this weekend, it will be dishing out sausages made by a local butcher to the company’s specifications, according to owner Christy Perry. The menu will include a lineup of six, 1/3-pound sausages – including pork, beef, Italian salsiccia and even a cordon bleu chicken sausage stuffed with ham and Swiss cheese – served on 6-inch buns from Fazio’s Bakery and piled with various toppings and sauces.
During breakfast and late-night hours, the truck will offer two items: The Punchy McLaughlin is a banger patty packed with hash browns, topped with a fried egg and havarti cheese and served on Texas toast. The other option is an apple-maple patty topped with a fried egg, Swiss cheese and strawberry preserves, also served on Texas toast. For dessert, The Sausage Syndicate will offer Rounders – two small chocolate-dipped cake balls.
The truck will make its public debut this Sunday for a kickball tournament at Tower Grove Park and then hit the streets on weekdays during lunch hours. It will also participate in the last Sauce Magazine Food Truck Friday of the season, on October 14. Perry noted that she and her two business partners were “trying to get licensed in the county as well,” adding that she doesn’t “want to saturate places in the city.”
Perry, a senior business analyst at Wells Fargo, was inspired to create The Sausage Syndicate after seeing food trucks do brisk lunch business at the financial services company in Midtown. She has partnered with two other women who hold 15 and 20 years experience, respectively, in the restaurant industry.
In other food truck news, Mangia Mobile has changed its name to Sicily Streat. A ruling by a federal court judge that the name Mangia Mobile was too close to that of local restaurant Mangia Italiano forced owners Thomas, Catherine and Alex Daake to find a new name for their Italian meals-on-wheels biz, as reported last week by Judith Evans of the Post-Dispatch. The Daake siblings asked their Facebook fans and Twitter followers to suggest a new name, specifying that it be a six-letter word. The truck tweeted out its new name today.
This article appears in Sep 1-30, 2011.