Jen ‘n Outlaw’s Fish Fry Truck and Crawfish Boil

Converted bread truck, hydraulics, installed kitchen, food, audience, performance. 30'x11'x14'

This mobile crawfish boil and fish fry truck was parked on the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan creating a place of cultural collision while serving hungry New Yorkers a delicious array of delicacies from the rural American south. From fried pickles and fried catfish, to boiled crawfish and fried moonpies for desert, the culinary oddities attracted patrons from all over the cultural spectrum to dine together on the hot streets of America’s melting pot. The giant American flag adorning the side of the truck preceded the spectacle of the hydraulic lifts converting the back of the truck into a fold out sit-down eatery. Lines amassed everywhere the truck went, often times creating a 55-minute wait to get a Po-Boy. The piece successfully created common ground between the polar opposites of the American geographical and idealogical divide, albeit short lived and only to foreshadow the chaotic political collision that lied ahead. Attention garnered from this project got the artists featured in the New York Times, Eat Street, and even landed them as contestants on Chopped, where the artists continued their performance art into the realm of competitive televised cuisine, convincing everyone that they were true Southern chefs.