UPDATE: Fat One’s is comin’ back to Plant City from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, as Keel & Curley Winery’s 11th Annual Blueberry Festival continues. I knew I liked that guy.
Well, well, well. Look who has a food truck:
This probably isn’t news to loyal readers of Orlando Weekly, CL’s new sibling publication. But, seriously, how did we not know that *NSYNC alum Joey Fatone started serving up Brooklyn bites out of his own restaurant-on-wheels?
I mean, after all, the triple threat (singer-dancer-actor) and TV personality’s all-American destination for jazzed-up hot dogs, fries and Italian ice in the Florida Mall is only an hour and some change away.
Luckily, Carlos Hernandez — the Tampa Bay blogger behind Carlos Eats who contributes his local food expertise to CL from time to time — knew. And he snapped a photo with the former boybander. Because when you see Joey Fatone in Plant City, during the annual Blueberry Festival at Keel & Curley Winery, which opened for an 11th year this past weekend, it’s what you do.
Hernandez ordered the chili cheese dog. He told us Fatone "was a really cool guy" — and the eats were dope.
"They said they make the chili there everyday," Hernandez continued. "The steak fries on the side were delicious — they were kinda like Checkers fries without all the grease."
Fatone launched his food truck in 2016 and appropriately dubbed it Fat One’s, a hard-to-miss play on his last name. The mobile kitchen’s 100 percent beef wieners are presented traditionally — split lengthwise and covered in dreamy toppings on a toasted bun — but they also come pressed like a classic Tampa Cuban.
Speaking of, Fat One’s offers its signature take on the Cuban… with Swiss, pickles and yellow mustard. SMH. Perhaps that’s why we haven’t caught wind of the truck until now.
Where’s the salami, Fatone? The ham? And what about the roast pork??
It’s tearin’ up my heart.
