However, there were some Mennonite groups who baked bread and pastries for a big flea market type place when we lived in PA and I didn't say no to them....I guess I'm a bigot.
It depends on where you are in the country. If you’re in a city forget about it.
Restaurants didn’t like the competition and got cities to regulate food trucks out by complaining that the trucks didn’t pay property taxes like they did.
What happens is that a few bad apples, end up making people sick and then government tries to prevent people getting sick. Unfortunately, government tends to rely on regulation more than product audits. The end result is that businesses are closed due to the increased regulatory burden.
Eventually, automation helps to reduce the regulatory burden, but industry suffers in the mean time. Same thing happens in the medical field. Every regulation is because someone somewhere screwed up, but the totality of regulation becomes a very costly endeavor that itself impinges on quality of care.
On certain weekends during certain times of the year, there are produce markets in Houston. I know there is one off of Washington AVE, another one on Wirt Rd. I have not been to the old Farmers Market over in the Heights in years and I am not sure if it is still there. It was open 7 days a week with vegetables straight from the farm. If you feel like taking a drive up to Hempstead there used to be a great outdoor market up there. I’ll bet it is still there and this is making me want to go and find out. :)
Maybe in Cali- but we go to the local farmer’s markets here in OH all the time... still see farmer’s stands on the side of the road too. Weren’t those two amish kids that got kidnapped a few weeks ago in NY working at the roadside stand as well?