Recently, a friend exposed me to the glory that is the Duke Dining Food Trucks Calendar. The page and Local Yogurt’s twitter, @loyoonthego, are now both permanently open on my iPhone. In addition to making me an even more avid patron of Loyo, the calendar has made me realize just how often the green Loyo truck graces our campus with its presence.
It seems that the Loyo truck occupies a niche in the world of Duke dining, something akin to that of the neighborhood ice cream truck. As a kid, having the ice cream truck come to my neighborhood ranked among my greatest desires. On the few occasions that it did, it meant that ice cream was something you had to have; after all, who knew when the elusive truck would be by again? The novelty was never lost, and the demand always there. I think of Loyo as having a very similar appeal.
I sense that I’m not alone in this mentality, judging on how excited people seem to be whenever “the Loyo truck is here!” This may be partly because the truck only opened this past August and just started accepting food points in October.
Rational considerations aside, it still seems that a large part of Loyo’s draw is the common misperception that it comes infrequently (or at least less often than it actually does). In my mind, the Loyo truck is the double rainbow of campus food—a rare, special sighting. The calendar, however, tells a different story: in actuality, the truck comes every day of the week except for Monday.
Maybe we tend to think the truck comes less frequently than it does because it varies in time and location. Even still, it’s ironic that we often think of the Loyo truck as special when it comes six days a week, usually for several hours each time. Although, to be fair, Loyo is also just amazingly delicious.
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