Thursday 22 September 2016

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

{Erin Out and About} Beansies

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.

{Erin Out and About} Beansies

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.

{Erin Out and About} Beansies

{Erin Out and About} Beansies

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

{Erin Out and About} Beansies

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'.)

{Erin Out and About} Beansies

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.

{Erin Out and About} Beansies View

{Erin Out and About} Beansies 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

{Erin Out and About} Al's Ice Cream

Chocolate dipped and all.

{Erin Out and About} Al's Ice Cream

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

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3 comments:

  1. I would have had no idea what you were talking about either! The 'creamee' (did I spell it right?) looks really amazing though!

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  2. Beansies Beansies Beansies

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  3. lol that's fair. It's funny how something you grow up with seems so normal until an outsider looks in and giggles at the strangeness.

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