http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/killer-burger-kills-it/Content?oid=5766830 Comments On: Killer Burger Kills It by Chris Onstad en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 01:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by emily m]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 12:03:19 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by ispeakthetruth]]> Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:56:31 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by boneher]]> Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:48:00 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Weeno]]> Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:35:04 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Zack Soto]]> Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:28:08 -0700 Portland Mercury
I mean, there is obviously an art to restaurant reviews, BUT part of that art is not making your reviews too artistic... The art is in making the review NOT "art."

Repeat after me: Form follows fucking function. Form follows fucking function. Form follows fucking function. Form follows fucking function...

Eegads.
Posted by jamdox]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:04:25 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Gza1340]]> Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:21:16 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Graham]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:10:41 -0700 Portland Mercury
If you have, just read these articles in Pat or Ray's "voice," and shut the fuck up.
Posted by D'ugh]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:31:40 -0700 Portland Mercury
WHY ARE YOU STILL READING THIS? GET THEE TO THE HAMBURGERS NOW!
Posted by Graham]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:03:50 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by exasperated]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:25:54 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by exasperated]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:07:16 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by The Showstopper]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:47:16 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Spoolo]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:17:49 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by foodwhistle]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:12:59 -0700 Portland Mercury

Eh....more like a crappy supermarket romance novel, given all the purple prose. Witty, highbrow, conceptual? Not so much.


It's 80% writer-likes-sound-of-own-voice and 20% food review.


The fact that week after week, it seems, the comments are all full of talk about the writing (mostly--how bad it is) rather than whatever food is being reviewed should tell someone at the Merc that this 'food editor' might be better off writing about some other topic than food.
Posted by Purple Prozac]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:34:19 -0700 Portland Mercury
Sup Mark, way yaw kramp us...
Dat's no Onstad!
Posted by Tommy]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:01:19 -0700 Portland Mercury
Yelp it on up, Onstad!
Posted by Tommy]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:46:57 -0700 Portland Mercury
It's fucking food column in a free paper written by a foodie comic artist. It's going to be witty and probably a little highbrow or dare I say "conceptual".

Please proceed to Yelp if you want your usual standard fair and gratuitous exclamation points.

Keep on Keepin On(stad)
Posted by KRAMPUS]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:57:47 -0700 Portland Mercury
Commenty Colin, Well, who's butthurt now? ;-P
To your credit, we both live up to our names. I'm Prone to Hyperbole, and you're the fellow who comments on everyone's comments about commenting, and aptly titled. I swear you stay logged in with an audio alert for every time anyone posts anything so you can pounce with a throttle or dissenting opinion or a lashing of mouth befrothed sarcasm. oops, I was channeling Onstad :-/
Posted by PtH]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:09:28 -0700 Portland Mercury
I'm grateful again, though, to Chris for covering my friend's burger joint. It was extremely difficult to make it through the verbiage, but I did it to see what he thought, and I agree about the all American experience. The cheese is SUPPOSED to taste like plastic. It's American cheese. The way it should be.

I really like the micro-portion of this review that actually discussed, well, the food. The burgers are really good, and pretty cheap. Great people too! And I wish he'd mentioned their other location. If anyone is about to eat at Charburger when heading out to Hood River, hang a left off the exit, go a little further (bypassing Charburger) and look for Killer location #2 run by the son and daughter-in-law. Not that I don't love Charburger! Their BBQ beef and pork sandwiches are stellar!
Posted by PtH]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:56:49 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Sense]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:04:31 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Commenty Colin]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:49:17 -0700 Portland Mercury
Now, that I read what goes in hamburger meat, I will grind my own and cook my on. Period!

To be 100% honest with you, I think that Red Robin burgers kick their ass. I am not into destroying a burger flavor with peanut butter or other ridiculous toppings. It destroys the flavor and becomes something else instead of enhancing the basics.

Good luck to them in their business, but there is no way in hell I could consider their burgers anything but just another attempt to add weirdness to something that is good to start with which is a standard burger. Sorry, try harder, way harder.
Posted by Sense]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:01:56 -0700 Portland Mercury
Also, the burgers here are very tasty. For the veg-affiliated, while they might offer a veg or vegan patty, I doubt that they're segregating the grill/cooking implements.
Posted by Commenty Colin]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:02:05 -0700 Portland Mercury