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pinky’s promise

Ask yourself: how long would you wait for your favorite food? Would you wait an hour? Two? Maybe … five?

For the greater Atlanta community, waiting five hours in line is nothing for a business that long ago surpassed humble food truck beginnings to become a bona fide movement. It’s called Slutty Vegan, and it’s not what you think. To be “sluttified” means you’ve been enlightened to a plant-based universe that’s not only full of flavor that pops and texture that fools, but for those who brave the snaking lines, this local (and national) vegan phenomenon promises a party once you enter its doors.

Pinky Cole would have it no other way. To say Slutty Vegan’s owner is a millennial on a mission would be as much of an understatement as calling a burger a burger (at Slutty Vegan, it’s not a bacon cheeseburger; it’s a One Night Stand). The staggering success that Cole has enjoyed in the three years since founding her now-iconic food truck (still operational alongside two brick and mortars—with more in the works) is not only

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