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Hamilton food trucks up for awards

Some of Hamilton's famous food trucks are up for awards in a mobile eatery competition called Awestruck 2012. The competition promises to celebrate Canada's street food scene.
Conrad Collaco · CBC News ·
Susan Austin and Graeme Smith, co-owner of Gorilla Cheese are up for awards in a Southern Ontario food truck competition. (Lakshine Sathiyanathan/CBC)

Some of Hamilton's famous food trucks are up for awards in a mobile eatery competition called Awestruck 2012. The competition promises to celebrate Canada's street food scene.

Awards will be handed out on Sept. 9 at the Evergreen Brick Works' Holcim Gallery in Toronto several Hamilton food trucks are up for awards. Gorilla Cheese, Toasted Tangerine, Southern Smoke and Cupcake Diner compete for the People's Choice award.

Food trucks also vie to win in best concept, hardest working, best graphics and best new truck categories. Visitors to foodtruckeats.ca can vote for their favourite food truck.

The competition is being held by Food Truck Eats, a group that puts on events in Toronto intended to showcase a variety of street food options beyond "just burgers and hotdogs".

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Conrad Collaco

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Conrad Collaco is a CBC News producer for CBC Hamilton with extensive experience in online, television and radio news. Follow him on Twitter at @ConradCollaco, or email him at conrad.collaco@cbc.ca.

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