Regional eating custom
The French pizza truck as a village fixture
A wood-fired oven in a converted van, parked in a village square on a fixed evening each week, is for many rural French communes the local pizzeria. The camion à pizza is a genuinely French institution, and the weekly visit functions as a small community event.
What kind of claim this is
Local variation
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Where: France
Evidence
Limited evidence- Pizza consumption and the camion à pizza in France — Gira Conseil / French foodservice trade reporting