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The problem probably lies with the fact that if there's a soup and a hotdog or burger side by side people don't buy the soup. Or that they're willing to walk 200meters to get the hotdog/burger instead of the soup.
The vendors are just trying to maximise and getting whatever the audience is more likely to buy.
Would you say that streetfood is more of a treat or more of a part of life?
I know it's a treat for me, but that's genuinely because there's so few "healthy" options going on with it that it sort of fulfills it's own prophecy, I can't eat a hotdog or a hamburger anytime I'm in town, I sure could eat a soup though. Healthiest option here, barring salads from fast food chains or such, is usually a falafel wrap and while that at least comes with veggies and no meat, it's still deep fried and all.
I dunno, depends on the location? For some it's definitely part of life like ones that post up near workers where your only alternative is driving. The streetfood in some cases becomes your regular lunch.
Like maybe that's quite a "treat" lunch but the convenience of closer means they get to go sit around more rather than spend their break travelling to and from their alternative lunch options. Sure bringing lunch from home is the cheapest but I know I've been in that situation before and not everyone is making particularly sensible spending habit choices at all times.
I'm thinking more like urban center, pedestrianized spaces here honestly, not so much Ex-Urb with a foodtruck if that helps contextualize it.
Why do you think soup is inherently "healthy"?
I don't?
This is largely cultural, though. Some places prefer soups over western street food, but just because the culture prefers soup overall, and eat them for almost all meals. This is not the case for the global North, in my experience.