Mensah-Stock on food truck donation: 'This is truly going to be life-changing for our entire family'

Many food trucks plow Houston's busy streets, but there's one set to hit the road that has a touching backstory to it. 

According to a report from Houston ABC affiliate KTRK, after Morton Ranch High School product Tamyra Mensah-Stock achieved Olympic gold in the Tokyo Olympics to become the first black woman to do so in the sport of wrestling, she planned on purchasing a food truck for her mother, Shonda Wells, with her prize money from the Games. 

But a fellow Houstonian beat her to it – much to the delight of mother and daughter.

KTRK reported that Cruising Kitchens owner and president Cameron Davies built a $250,000 food truck for Wells, who accompanied Mensah-Stock earlier this month to San Antonio to get a peek at the vehicle.

To say that the gesture means so much to Mensah-Stock is an understatement.

"This is truly going to be life-changing for our entire family," she told the station. "The struggle was real, and now Cameron has made a way for us. It's a dream come true. No way on earth could I have ever, ever, ever come up with something like that. It's truly a blessing. God is good all the time."

The station reported that Wells will operate the food truck, christened P'lickles Famous BBQ, in the Houston area.

The San Antonio-based Cruising Kitchens specializes in food trucks and trailers, kitchen trucks and trailers, shipping container trailers, multimedia trucks and trailers, mobile office trucks and trailers, according to its website.

Its Facebook page shows rapper Paul Wall and restaurateur Ayesha Curry among its well-known customers.

Mensah-Stock was a high-school sophomore when she first took up wrestling, according to an August 2021 report from KTRK.

She proved to be a quick study as she worked her way to become one of the best in the state.

The state reported that five years ago, Mensah-Stock promised her mother that she would get her her very own food truck as it's her dream.