The concept of street food isn’t new in Rome, where stalls selling cheap snacks populated the city center more than 2,000 years ago. In recent decades, pizza by the slice joints and supplì (fried rice ball) vendors have thrived in holes-in-the-wall all over town. But in the past few years, the number of shops selling economical snacks advertised as “street food,” “cibo di strada,” and the phonetic “strit fud” has boomed, and new food formats have been born to provide an array of cheap eats in a time of dire economic crisis.
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