Beansies: a Vermont Icon

While I was in Vermont I was talking to a friend back home and they asked me what I was up to that day.

Me: We are heading to Church Street for some shopping, then Beansies for Michigans and topping it off with Creemees.
Them: That sounds awesome, but I understood very few of those words.

That's when I realized that Vermont is a magical unicorn that only few people have the privilege of experiencing.

This is Beansies, a Burlington institution

Opened in 1944 in a retrofitted old yellow school bus, it serves from April to October, 10:30am to dusk, 7 days a week and located at the corner of Battery Park, Burlington, Vermont. It's food is award-winning. Literally.

There was a time when getting food from a truck was a novelty, but although today's gastro-truck can give Beansies a run for it's money, it still stands up against the competition. It's won Best Food Truck for the past 3 years.

It severs up simple all-American foods; hamburgers, minute steaks, Michigan dogs, fries, and creemees.

We went for the Michigan Dogs with a large fry to share (A Michigan is a 'steamed hot dog on a steamed bun topped with a meaty sauce, generally referred to as Michigan sauce'.)

The food is good and the setting is even better, as your in a lovely lush park which is set on a cliff that over looks Lake Champlain. I mean, just look at this view.

Although I'm sure the creemees at Beansies are wonderful, we couldn't turn our back on our favourite flavour of Black Raspberry available at another Vermont institution, Al's Frech Frys

Chocolate dipped and all.

Ever been to Beansies? What's your favourite food truck? Let me know in the comments below.

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