Frat boys, stoners and cheap-food gourmets around the globe are tearfully marking down 2009 as the year that the world lost a great luminary. Mahmut Aygun, the Turkish kebab king who invented that truck-food staple, the doner kebab, died early this year. Aygun will be greatly missed, but he leaves a tremendously legacy -- a low-brow foodie revolution, for which exchange students and not-so-starving artists will be eternally grateful. We salute him.

And since everyone is looking for ways to live more frugally, it's time to reconsider food served from the side of a truck. It's no longer just for lunch or after a night out, and some trucks, displaced from their restaurants, are serving gourmet meals -- and even dessert -- for a few dollars a pop.

Got a food truck favorite in your stomping grounds? Snap a picture and share it with us in the gallery below.

Favorite Food Trucks
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We've all heard of taco trucks, but how often do you find one that serves beef tongue and pig stomach? See what other wild dishes are served on four wheels around the world.


Additional writing provided by Zaby Currie.