They loved the soups and sandwiches and salads, but two regular Wednesday customers of the Souper Freak truck, Erik and Jill, asked and asked every week, "Why don't you have any dessert?"
Now, finally, the Souper Freak does -- Chocolate Cowboy Brownies with potato chips, gluten free carrot and sweet potato bars, seven-layer vegan bars, all made by Liz Smith, whom the Souper Freak's Irene Smith calls the "dessert goddess."
It's hard to see in the window drawing, but it says, How the Souper Freak Got Desserts.
Erik and Jill are, of course, the Baltimore Sun's own Erik "Midnight Sun" Maza and Jill "Unleashed" Rosen. Well done, you two. Although, Louise "shotgun" Thomas says she's been telling her boss, Smith, to get desserts for months.
Smith herself says, "I only wanted to offer desserts if I had desserts at all that all kinds of eaters could have." Smith says she held off until she had the right pastry chef. That's where Liz Smith, no relation, entered the picture. "It just happened that Erik and Jill were pushing it just as she walked up to the truck for lunch. I knew here from the pool." The Swan Lake Swim Club is a big Baltimore chef hangout, according to Irene Smith.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday night, Jack's Bistro in Canton is debuting a new menu item, the Loaded Burger, which Jack's weekly email update describes this way: "a concoction involving hot dogs & a jalapeno relish (a present to chef Ted from Baltimore's favorite "wing man" Bill Bateman)."
Have you ever succeeded in getting a restaurant to add, or modify, a menu item? Someday your name might be mentioned in the same breath as Greenberg Potato Skins and Peach Melba.