MISQUAH — The arrangement was announced by parking. At 11:50 Saturday morning, better than two hours before the doors opened, the Martinez truck came up Second Avenue, turned into the alley alongside the old creamery, and set up with its window facing the loading dock — at which point every person on the street performed the small satisfied nod of a town that has been right about something for a month and has been too polite to say so out loud more than daily.

“They asked us in June,” Mateo Martinez said. “Annika came to the landing, waited in the line like everybody, ordered, ate, and then asked. That is the correct order of operations.” The Holts, for their part, say the secrecy was never about the truck. “It wasn’t our news to announce,” Annika Holt said. “If they wanted to tell people, they’d tell people. They told people by parking in the alley.”

The truck sold out at 5:40 p.m., the earliest in its short history here, and stayed open another two hours selling what Sofia Martinez called “chips and conversation.” The chips, as ever, were for everyone. The salsa recipe, as ever, remained a family matter, and the Recipe Box’s standing request — renewed for the fourth time this summer by this newspaper, in person, at a moment of high goodwill — was declined with what the requester describes as “the warmest no in Pine County.”

The arrangement continues. The truck will be in the alley Fridays and Saturdays through the fall, and at the landing Thursdays and Sundays, which means the Chain now has two lines to stand in and the same two people at the end of both. Mateo Martinez was asked whether he had considered that the brewery might hurt his landing business. He looked at the line, which at that moment reached past the boat trailers of a different parking lot entirely, and said: “No.”