As the largest egg recall in American history continues to unravel (find out if you have a dozen of those bad boys here), there should be plenty of holier-than-thou backyard chicken fetishists who feel quite smug, believing their precious hens are laying disease-free eggs. Considering I get my eggs through the Eastside Egg Co-op, operating […]
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Changes at Portland Farmers Market.
The Portland Farmers Market announced this morning that current executive director Ann Forsthoefel has resigned after two years at the helm. She is leaving to relocate to Missoula, MT, after her husband recently accepted a job there. From the press release: “Ann has been instrumental in bringing Portland Farmers Market to a whole new level […]
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No-Line Diner
City State Diner Will Be Worth the Inevitable Wait
The down-home Hopperian goodness of City State Diner will still be worth it when the lines start to form.
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Unfortunate Vodka Situation
How many times have you been knocking back vodka shots with your pals, when you stop to realize that the Grey Goose you’re swilling isn’t doing shit for your freakishly sculpted abs? Never? Oh. Well, the makers of Devotion Vodka have. They’re making a vodka that has about two grams of protein in every shot, […]
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National Waffle Day
I think I may start a diet that consists of only eating foods with a nationally recognized day. You’d never go hungry. Just about every day of the year is a National food day for some comestible. Yesterday was National Spongecake Day. Tomorrow is National Banana Split Day. Today, along with National Peach Pie Day, […]
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My New Food Hero Delights (& Depresses) Me
Remy Mumby delights me. Why? I think it’s because the precocious ten-year-old is a more adventurous eater than most adults I know, and watching him eat a rattlesnake on his web show Food Oddities has the same creepy, chilling effect as watching zombie children tear into a corpse in Night of the Living Dead. Why, […]
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Everything About the Angel Kiss is Wrong
So, Ned Lannamann walks into my office with what looks like a load of fat, squat chocolate dongs and asks, “Would you like an Angel Kiss?” How could I refuse? How could I accept? How does one even approach this sort of thing? Luckily, they’re Halal. And the inside holds this amazing surprise! Angel Kisses: […]
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Thank Goodness for Berger & Green
The Mercury boys are out on a date today with a young lady who was lucky enough to win what can only be described as an extravaganza of awkward self-conscious masculinity and rampant testosterone. I for one dread the possibilities, but if we happen to be involved in some horrible explosive accident during a go-cart […]
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This Week’s Mercury Food Section: Crow Tacos
While I’d love to talk more about the fine Korean taco options we have available in the Portland Metro area, I’m instead going to post this picture: And this quote: You know what? I’d be more frightened of what’s in that Taco Bell monstrosity than what I get handed to me through a taco truck […]
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Travels in Tacoville
The Korean Taco Special!
This summer’s search for taco greatness takes an exciting trip into the land of the Korean taco.
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Hung Far Low Sign Will Be Re-Erected
Nearly two years ago, the Mercury received a frantic dispatch that the revered Hung Far Low sign had been removed from the Old Town/Chinatown perch from which it had delighted Portlander’s for decades. It was soon discovered, sadly, warehoused in a Scappoose derelict sign yard. Today the Portland Development Commission announced that on September 2nd […]
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Best Press Release Quote of the Day!
The Truffle Squirrel Cometh “Pigs love to eat truffles, dogs can smell them from 30 feet away, and a flying squirrel can smell them from the air, glide down and land right on top of one,” Trappe said. “Their aromas don’t always smell good to humans. One Australian truffle species smells like dog feces — […]