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Tue May 11 22:21:23 1993
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Subject: Andy's Hotdog
Date: Mon, 10 May 93 18:57:43 EDT
Hey, I got this message from the CSC and 6Appeal. This letter was written
by the MIT International Students Against Racism.
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Dear Fellow students and MIT Community members,
We are writing this letter to let you know about two disturbing
incidents that occured this past Thursday and Friday involving the Poppa
& Goose and Andy's Hotdog vending food trucks. As you may know, both of
these trucks are parked on Ames St. in front of Bldg. 17. The first
provides hot Oriental style lunches while the second provides standard
American fare. Some of you may also know that the parking situation on
Ames St. has become very strict with both the MIT as well as Cambridge
police ticketing left and right. Because of the tightened regulations,
the food trucks only have permission to sell provided they are parked at
a legal spot (no yelllow lines). As such, in order to provide lunch on
a regular basis, a food truck vendor either has to try to reserve a
legal spot using his own private vehicle or just come out to the site on
the day of the sale and hope to find a legal spot (which is very rare).
Last Thursday and Friday, May 6 and 7, the Poppa & Goose truck took
several hours during the day to stake out Ames St. in order to get a
legal spot. It took them until 4 AM on one day and 1 AM on the second
day to get a spot. The following morning on the day of sales they came
with the food truck and pulled out the private car to park the truck
in. As they pulled out the car, Andy's Hotdog who was parked right
behind them illegally on the yellow line, zoomed into their spot. The
owner of Andy's then turned around and laughed at the Poppa & Goose
people , yelled racial slurs and obscenities at them, and mockingly told
them they were so stupid and that he was showing them how to operate the
"American Way."
Fellow students and staff, we ask you not to support Andy's any longer.
He preaches "the American Way" that gives all Americans a bad name. The
American Way is not about THIEVERY and RACISM but about making an
honest living through hard work and playing fair. It is people like
Andy's that corrupts America and noble institutions like MIT where no
room exists for theft and racism.
If ousting Andy's means being removed too, both Poppa & Goose and
Falafel King, the third truck on Ames St., have agreed that this is the
fate they will willingly submit to just to remove Andy's and with it all
the hostility and racism from the MIT campus. We are therefore meeting
with Mr. Richard Scali, executive director of the Cambridge license
Commission, to make a formal request that the operating licenses of all
the trucks on Ames St., including that of Poppa & Goose, be revoked. The
people of Poppa & Goose would rather lose their jobs and business than
allow such hostility to continue.
We therefore ask you to support us in trying to show Andy's what the
American Way is all about by boycotting his operation. This is, after
all, what fairness is all about.
MIT International Students Against Racism
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Please forward to those who may be interested.
Gargi Sircar
MIT '93
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