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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==

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* The theft of a yatai (Japan's version of the trope) meant as a dowry is the driving impetus in Ukyo's [[Backstory]] in ''[[Ranma ½]]''.

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== [[Anime&Manga]] ==
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* The theft of a yatai (Japan's version of the trope) meant as a dowry is the driving impetus in Ukyo's back story in [[Ranma ½]].
* The elusive "Neko Ramen" stand plays an important role in the first episode of ''[[The Tatami Galaxy]]'' and shows up from time to time later in the series.
* The elusive "Neko Ramen" stand plays an important role in the first episode of ''[[The Tatami Galaxy]]'' and shows up from time to time later in the series.


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* An entire town does this in one episode of ''[[The Adventures of Superman]]'', in order to fleece passerby with phony speeding tickets.
* An entire town does this in one episode of ''[[The Adventures of Superman]]'', in order to fleece passerby with phony speeding tickets.
* One of the odder challengers in the Japanese version of [[Iron Chef]] was a chef who was cooking out of one of these who brought it into the arena with him. Did fairly well too.
* One of the odder challengers in the Japanese version of [[Iron Chef]] was a chef who was cooking out of one of these who brought it into the arena with him. Did fairly well too.

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== [[Real Life]] ==
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* The U.S. has trucks filled with various types of food and drink that go around to any place with groups of people (construction sites, office buildings, college campuses, etc.) and sell to the people there.
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** This practice is also becoming common in Britain, normally as a sideline run by a local cafe. More elaborate setups offering hotdogs, burgers etc cooked while you wait tend to be found in lay-bys, the parking lots of retail parks or dotted around pedestrianised shopping areas. They're also invariably found at markets or county fairs. Food quality ranges from [[So Okay It's Average|unspectacular but perfectly edible]] to [[Orgasmically Delicious]].
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* Bookmobiles, or mobile libraries as they're known in Britain.
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* There are companies out there that will wash your car and/or repair windshields on the spot (well in the parking lot anyway)
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* [[Bad Humor Truck|Ice cream trucks]].
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* Also old-time cigarette girls.
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* Most of the [[Snake Oil Salesman|alleged doctors]] in the [[Wild West]] would [[Medicine Show|travel by wagon]] from town to town selling a 'miracle elixir' said to cure whatever ailment they could come up with. These show up in Westerns from time to time.
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* A close relative of this trope is the concept of the mobile MRI scanner, which is built into the trailer unit of an 18-wheeler and rotated between multiple small hospitals in rural areas.
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* Those Mexican ice cream men, who literally drag their store around behind them.
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* Japan has the ''[[wikipedia:Yatai (retail)|yatai]]''

== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'': often has mobile medical care facilities and repair shops for the "don't ask questions" type.
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'': often has mobile medical care facilities and repair shops for the "don't ask questions" type.
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* ''[[Hoodwinked]]'' got the schnitzel truck.
* ''[[Hoodwinked]]'' got the schnitzel truck.
* Aiden Subtract works out of one of these, hawking his inventions in the ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' episode "Rainmaker"
* Aiden Subtract works out of one of these, hawking his inventions in the ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers|Galaxy Rangers]]'' episode "Rainmaker"

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== [[Real Life]] ==
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* The U.S. has trucks filled with various types of food and drink that go around to any place with groups of people (construction sites, office buildings, college campuses, etc.) and sell to the people there.
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** This practice is also becoming common in Britain, normally as a sideline run by a local cafe. More elaborate setups offering hotdogs, burgers etc cooked while you wait tend to be found in lay-bys, the parking lots of retail parks or dotted around pedestrianised shopping areas. They're also invariably found at markets or county fairs. Food quality ranges from [[So Okay It's Average|unspectacular but perfectly edible]] to [[Orgasmically Delicious]].
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* Bookmobiles, or mobile libraries as they're known in Britain.
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* There are companies out there that will wash your car and/or repair windshields on the spot (well in the parking lot anyway)
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* [[Bad Humor Truck|Ice cream trucks]].
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* Also old-time cigarette girls.
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* Most of the [[Snake Oil Salesman|alleged doctors]] in the [[Wild West]] would [[Medicine Show|travel by wagon]] from town to town selling a 'miracle elixir' said to cure whatever ailment they could come up with. These show up in Westerns from time to time.
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* A close relative of this trope is the concept of the mobile MRI scanner, which is built into the trailer unit of an 18-wheeler and rotated between multiple small hospitals in rural areas.
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* Those Mexican ice cream men, who literally drag their store around behind them.
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* Japan has the ''[[wikipedia:Yatai (retail)|yatai]]''



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