Eating at Cousin Eddie's Plan C feels like a family reunion
Dec 13, 2024
KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) — It's Food Truck Friday, and here at FOX8, we found our way over to Kernersville because what better food truck to visit a few weeks before Christmas than Cousin Eddie's Plan C?
Jennifer Collins owns the truck with her husband, Eddie—cousin Eddie, of course.
"So we are a food truck. Our specialty is barbecue. Pork, beef, brisket, hand-cut fries and hot dogs. We also have wings, and everything that we make has our sources that we make, and we also sell our sauces," she says.
And of course, there's cousin Eddie inside the truck, and he comes by it. Honestly.
So how do this go from plan A to plan C?
"Well, we started out with my barbecue sauce company and I've actually been making the sale since I was 13 and everybody kept saying, You need to put that on the market, you need to sell it. So we did," Cousin Eddie says.
"Plan A was our sauces. We started with our sauces in 2018. Of course, it wasn't called Plan A, it was just called Cousin Eddie's Sauces at the time. Plan B was our hot dog cart that we bought in 2020 when I lost my job with the company that I was working for due to the pandemic," Collins says.
"Plan B, and we didn't really think that was plan B, it just happened that way."
"And we did craft fairs here at Musten and Crutchfield and we sold our hotdogs and our barbecue sandwiches here, and that was basically our Plan B," Collins says.
"And then my wife, she decided to quit her corporate job down in Raleigh, and she came home and says, 'I'm done.' And I'm like, 'With me?' She said, 'No one, my job.' And I said, 'Well, good. What do you want to do?'"
"We bought the food truck. That was our Plan C."As a cousin Eddie, we had to ask him about the Christmas vacation, but turns out he comes by being a cousin Eddie honestly.
"Eddie's actually was way before, even before the sauces.""I'm a little bit older than the actual movie, and then when it came out, I'm like, 'Does everybody look at me like that?'" he said.
He has five cousin Eddie's, so at any family reunion, he is, Cousin Eddie.
"I'm Cousin Eddie, and that's just the way it's been," he says.
"He does have a cousin Clark," his wife added.
The customers not only love the food, but love the food names they throw in there too.
"They absolutely love it. It is a play with words and a little sense of humor. But I have to honestly say, if you ever eat the crapper's full, you'll know why it's named that."
"For a beef crapper is hand-cut, French fries fried to a crisp. Munsten and Crutchfield pimento cheese, and I like to slather it on pretty good. Then I have hickory smoked beef brisket, and I like to lay it across there. And then one of our number one favorite sauces is my original Cousin Eddie's Sauce, and we just load it up."
"I'm not sure how I'm going to eat all this, but I bet it lives up to his namesake. All right, let's give this a try. It looks so good. French fries, beef brisket, pimento cheese and that barbecue sauce. Let's dig in. Let's try to get a French fry on there. Oh, yeah?" FOX8's Chris Weaver said. "Well, that is awesome. Interesting. You've heard of chili cheese fries? I like some chili cheese fries. This is a very big twist on that. Pimento cheese, beef brisket. The sauce, the French fries underneath. Are you serious, Clark? Well, that's the name of another dish here I've got The Crapper is Full. And after this is said and done, well, maybe."
If you'd like to give Eddie's menu a try for yourself, come on down to Kernersville here in the Musten and Crutchfield parking lot. You can find them here just about any day of the week or at some of the food truck events around town. You're not going to be disappointed.
Keep up with Cousin Eddie's Plan C on their website.