The food-o-verse is all a-twitter over the news (posted last night on laist.com) that Food Network (the network that brought you Extreme Cuisine and What Would Brian Boitano Make) looks to be casting a new show all about the hottest foodie trend of the last year(s): high-end food trucks.According to Laist: “Fresh in our inbox are details about a new show being prepped for the Food Network from the same folks behind the three-hanky heart-warmer Extreme Makeover Home Edition. The show is has a ‘competition adventure’ premise that takes popular food trucks ‘on a thrilling road trip across the country to compete for a BIG CASH PRIZE.'”I see two problems with this right off the bat. One, the lure of a food truck is that it’s LOCAL. Not necessarily local to you (because, you know, they move), but local to the neighborhood or city in which they work. For both chefs and customers, much of the lure of the mobile food service business is that it breaks down the barriers that separate a cook or chef from his customers and allows both parties to interact in the best possible way: over tacos. Thus, pulling some killer food truck out of a neighborhood and making it go somewhere else seems to me to defeat one of the primary joys of the whole food truck phenomena.The second thing that bothered me? That from the same folks behind the three-hanky heart-warmer Extreme Makeover line. So help me god, if this all turns into some kind of “Pimp My Taco Truck” thing I am going to be pissed.Still, it looks like the casting is going on right now in the City of Angels (where there is certainly no lack of loncheras), and I’m sure word will come down soon that some half-popular mobile food operation that does weird things with tortas or falafel has been chosen to race some other half-popular portable BBQ trailer from coast-to-coast, engaging in a variety of product-sponsored challenges along the way. A bunch of holier-than-thou foodies will get their panties in a bunch over the authenticity of said tortas or the carbon-footprint of the BBQ trailer. Fans of the Food Network will be blissful over having another way to kill a half-hour of their week, dreaming about food they will never eat. And the rest of L.A.’s gastronauts will just shrug, scratch those two trucks off their lists, and move on to the Next Big Thing.I’m guessing it’s going to be serving soup from the backs of speeding motorcycles.