When Jacob Palmer opened ThiccBoi at the Bantu Island pod in January, it wasn’t just a food cart: It was an opportunity. The cart serves an array of chicken wings and tenders tossed in sauces like Buffalo, hot honey, barbecue jerk, or orange-chicken-adjacent “orange curry,” as well as things like garlic rice and a brioche-bun chicken sandwich with pickles and slaw. But beyond a chicken cart, ThiccBoi was Palmer’s opportunity for a platform, a community space.
“When I first moved to this neighborhood, from Rose City to Alberta, it was a drastic change. I’d hear shootings. It was before most of the businesses on this street existed,” Palmer says.
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