Thermals drummer Westin Glass sure knows his Portland food carts. He knows that they’re delicious, cheap, plentiful, and often have really stupid names. Over on Virgin.com he’s guest blogging on the top 10 most annoying food cart names in town. Check it out to see what makes his list.
When End Hits finally opens its long-awaited, music-themed food cart, we’re gonna run the name by Westin to see what he thinks. Here’s a short list of candidates:
Meatallica
Achy Breaky Cart
Sleater-Kinney and Zuke’s
“My Sharona” by the Snack
You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Carty
Grand Bunk Railroad
Pretzel Logic
Simon and Cartfunkel (serving parsley, sage, and rosemary—but no motherfucking thyme, goddammit!)
Marky Mark and the Funky Lunch
End Hits: Ruining not just music, but food as well.
He’s wrong about ‘Kim Jong Grillin.” ‘Kim Jong Grillin” may be the best name for anything, ever.
And who would know more about annoying than a member of the Thermals…
See also: Thai restaurants and coffee shops. Both guilty of heinous crimes against humor.
(OK, Brewed Awakenings is actually kind of clever, but Rimsky-Korsakoffee is just awful)
Cartness on the edge of town
Average white stand
X tea C
Motley brew
Kim Jong Grillin’ is my fave food cart in PDX. Bulgogi Bibim box… yummmmm
@Stu: Rimsky-Korskacoffee has been around for, what, 10 years? Don’t they get a pass? Also, not a cart.
Looking at his list, Yarp has been closed for at least six months. They were the best cart in that area.
Thai restaurants, coffee shops and beauty parlors, y’mean.
How about ‘Cartesian Dualism’?
@C&B: Rimskys has been around a lot longer than that. About 25 years I think. But no, that doesn’t earn it a pass, it’s still a terrible name.
just walked past rimsky’s and it looks like they’re celebrating 30 years. for what it’s worth.
My fav’s of yours Ned is Simon and Cartfunkel and Marky Mark and the Funky Lunch
Come now. I would definitely support an ALF themed BBQ joint called, “I Grill Me.” Keep in mind I routinely run into Hutch at my local 7-11 with a maniacal look buying candy. No I am not kidding. Every time I see him doing it it looks like he just bought Pablo Escobar’s entire operation with no chance of being caught. I just wish he was buying Four Loko or Joose so it would be more rockstar or something.
Also I’m a huge fan of the Hutch and Kathy record before the Thermals and have no idea why nobody talks about it because it’s the cutest thing on the planet. That is all.