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** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E12WhatYouNeed What You Need]]", Pedott has a similar setup.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' has C.M.O.T. Dibbler, who uses a handcart when business is going well (when it isn't, he just has a tray round his neck). In ''Discworld/MakingMoney'', it's suggested that he might want to invest in an actual storefront, but he replies that in his business [[TorchesAndPitchforks it pays to keep mobile]] and in fact, he's there to apply for a loan to buy a wheelbarrow.
** In ''Discworld/WyrdSisters'', written before Dibbler was created, the narrator speculated that hot-dog stalls incorporate small, gas-powered time machines, enabling them to appear out of nowhere whenever a crowd forms.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'' got the schnitzel truck. It's like the woodland equivalent of the modern ice cream truck.

** Dibbler's [[NurseJenny counterparts]] elsewhere on the Disc have similar carts or trays. The [[LandDownUnder Ecksian]] version, Fair Go Dibbler, calls his tray Dibbler's Cafe de Feet, a parody of the famous Sydney meat-pie van Harry's Cafe de Wheels.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' TOS episode "One for the Angels". Lew Bookman has a mobile pitch: a suitcase with extensible legs. When he finishes a pitch, he collapses the legs back into the suitcase and moves on.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' has C.M.O.T. Dibbler, who uses a handcart when business is going well (when it isn't, he just has a tray round his neck). In ''Discworld/MakingMoney'', it's suggested that he might want to invest in an actual storefront, but he replies that in his business it pays to keep mobile.

* Ignatius J. Reilly spends time pushing around a "Paradise Vendors" hot-dog cart in ''AConfederacyOfDunces.'' He usually [[BigEater eats most of the hot-dogs himself]], only barely selling enough to make up for his own consumption.

* Those Mexican ice cream men, who literally drag their store around behind them.

* ''{{Hoodwinked}}'' got the schnitzel truck. It's like the woodland equivalent of the modern ice cream truck.

%%* Doctor Terminus' "Landship" from ''Film/PetesDragon''

* 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. Most common are sandwich trucks and taco truck (see CuisinesInAmerica for details).

** Dibbler's [[NurseJenny counterparts]] elsewhere on the Disc have similar carts or trays. The [[LandDownUnder Ecksian]] version, Fair Gos Dibbler, calls his tray Dibbler's Cafe de Feet, a parody of the famous Sydney meat-pie van Harry's Cafe de Wheels.

* In {{Oklahoma}}, Ali Hakim the peddler has one of these.

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* The elusive "Neko Ramen" stand plays an important role in the first episode of ''TheTatamiGalaxy'' and shows up from time to time later in the series.

* The Boar Hat bar in ''Manga/NanatsuNoTaizai'' is one as it is actually carried upon a giant pig.

* 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 RanmaOneHalf.

* The Vending skiff from ''Film/TheFifthElement''.
* The opening scene of ''GuysAndDolls'' has a pitchman and his female accomplice whose pitch is a box with fixed legs.
* Doctor Terminus' "Landship" from ''PetesDragon''
* ''BedknobsAndBroomsticks'': everything in Portobello Road that isn't nailed down. As well as Professor Browne's nifty suitcase act.
* The vendor in the film ''Film/TopSecret''.
* At one point in ''BrainDonors'', CloudCuckooLander Jacques produces and expands a collapsible office desk, complete with collapsible computer, collapsible printer, and inflatable secretary.
* Luz's taco van in ''Film/{{Machete}}''.

* Abie Glassman in ''TheGreatBrain''.

* ''TheTwilightZone'' TOS episode "One for the Angels". Lew Bookman has a mobile pitch: a suitcase with extensible legs. When he finishes a pitch, he collapses the legs back into the suitcase and moves on.
* In season 3 of ''TheWire'', Bubbles starts selling white t-shirts to the drug dealers and users around Baltimore from a shopping trolley. Later in the season and in season four he starts to expand his operation, offering cans of paint, pirated [=DVDs=] and other such assorted goods from his trolley.

* An entire town does this in one episode of ''TheAdventuresOfSuperman'', in order to fleece passerby with phony speeding tickets.
* One of the odder challengers in the Japanese version of IronChef 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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* 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. Most common are sandwich trucks and taco truck (see CuisinesInAmerica for details).
** 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 [[SoOkayItsAverage unspectacular but perfectly edible]] to OrgasmicallyDelicious.
** There are also the ever-famous food carts, which typically stay in one place on the sidewalk all day, but can be moved very easily to follow traffic patterns; these are common in cities around the world, but are particularly common on the East Coast of the US, and most especially in [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York]], where they are practically a religion.
* Bookmobiles, or mobile libraries as they're known in Britain.
* There are companies out there that will wash your car and/or repair windshields on the spot (well in the parking lot anyway)
* [[BadHumorTruck Ice cream trucks]].
* Also old-time cigarette girls.
* Most of the [[SnakeOilSalesman alleged doctors]] in the WildWest would [[MedicineShow 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.
* 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.
* Those Mexican ice cream men, who literally drag their store around behind them.
* Japan has the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatai_%28retail%29 yatai]]''
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* The [[ThoseTwoGuys Magimel]] [[IntrepidMerchant Brothers]] from ''[[VideoGame/ShadowHearts Shadow Hearts Covenant]]'' own one of those and they put it to good use, seeing how they manage to appears ''everywhere''. From inside the ruins left by an ancient civilization in the deeps of the Earth to an otherworldly fortress summoned by an evil Russian Warlock and a Hell facsimile created by a Japanese Taoist master, you can always bet in those guys appearing one step head of Yuri and Co. to offer their services.
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** Oh, and the time Homer went to NewYorkCity to get his impounded car he bought a bunch of Klauh Kalesh from a street vendor, with crab juice to wash it down.

* The Boar Hat in ''Manga/NanatsuNoTaizai'' is one as it is actually carried upon a giant pig.

* The Vending skiff from ''TheFifthElement''.

* The vendor in the film ''TopSecret!''.

* Luz's taco van in {{Machete}}.

* 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.