Puerto Rico is known for its street food and food trucks, so it stands to reason that at some point while there I would be eating from one of these mobile peddlers of comestibles. My mistake was that most of the food trucks I had heard of were portrayed as delicious, cheap food. I apparently chose the wrong one. Judging from the massive crowd outside of this one on a Friday night, I expected an absolutely delicious dinner. Unfortunately that was not to be. I decided to try the tripleta sandwich de platano, expecting perhaps a plump plantain bread or maybe the standard sandwich with plantains added. What I got was a nightmarish fried lump of hell. The meaty cheesy filling inside was incredibly delicious, but the agonizingly dense and adamantine outer structure consisting of some sort of deep fried plantain biscuits was enough to drive a man mad. Grease literally oozed from them. I eventually just ate out the filling, which proved to be quite an expensive meal at almost $8 for just a nibble of some tasty filling. Served on a proper bread, it would have been a fantastic sandwich and well worth the price. I can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would ever want to attempt to eat those greasy slabs of plantain, though I suppose you could probably fashion some armor out of them if you got enough of them. read more