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Title: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: katmai on May 27, 2017, 12:38:54 PM
So if social media is to be believed the special snowflakes of Portland were outraged by the cultural appropriation of these ladies and led to backlash.
http://www.wweek.com/uncategorized/2017/05/16/kooks-serves-pop-up-breakfast-burritos-with-handmade-tortillas-out-of-a-food-cart-on-cesar-chavez/ (http://www.wweek.com/uncategorized/2017/05/16/kooks-serves-pop-up-breakfast-burritos-with-handmade-tortillas-out-of-a-food-cart-on-cesar-chavez/)

QuoteKooks Serves Pop-Up Breakfast Burritos With Handmade Tortillas Out of a Food Cart on Cesar Chavez
Update: Kooks has closed.
By Walker MacMurdo | Published May 16
During an impromptu Christmastime road trip last year to Puerto Nuevo, Mexico, Kali Wilgus and Liz "LC" Connelly lost their minds over tortillas.

"In Puerto Nuevo, you can eat $5 lobster on the beach, which they give you with this bucket of tortillas," Connelly says. "They are handmade flour tortillas that are stretchy and a little buttery, and best of all, unlimited."

Connelly and Wilgus were so enamored with the tortillas, they tried to uncover the recipe.


"I picked the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken Spanish ever, and they showed me a little of what they did," Connelly says. "They told us the basic ingredients, and we saw them moving and stretching the dough similar to how pizza makers do before rolling it out with rolling pins. They wouldn't tell us too much about technique, but we were peeking into the windows of every kitchen, totally fascinated by how easy they made it look. We learned quickly it isn't quite that easy."

Connelly and Wilgus have turned their passion into new weekend spot Kooks Burritos, which has a concept that fits twee Portland: a breakfast burrito pop-up inside the hip Tight Tacos food cart in a Southeast Portland parking lot.

"On the drive back up to Oregon, we were still completely drooling over how good [the tortillas] were, and we decided we had to have something similar in Portland," Connelly says. "The day after we returned, I hit the Mexican market and bought ingredients and started testing it out. Every day I started making tortillas before and after work, trying to figure out the process, timing, refrigeration and how all of that works."

Well, she figured it out.



Connelly rolls out the tortillas in front of you and cooks them on the cart's flat-top griddle, bubbles forming through the uneven circle as the gentle smell of frying dough wafts from the cart. That tortilla is stretchy, pie-crust flaky, char-kissed and stuffed with fixins authentic only to SoCal burrito joints: french fries, scrambled eggs, guacamole, cheese and your choice of bacon or carne asada.

The result is as decadent as it sounds, the flake of the tortilla and soft crunch from the fries contrasting with the gooey goodness of the eggs, cheese and guac in a hangover-killing burrito. Served with Wilgus' neon-green serrano salsa and neon-orange chile de árbol salsa, both spicy and bright, breakfast doubles as a 'grammable burrainbow.

"The second we had the tortilla, we were like, 'We're doing this,'" Connelly says.

Get up a little early this weekend, and you can do it, too.

Update: Kooks Burritos has closed.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: garbon on May 27, 2017, 12:58:27 PM
Okay?
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 27, 2017, 01:03:56 PM
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Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: derspiess on May 27, 2017, 01:49:43 PM
Good for Portland.  Cultural appropriation is evil.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: The Brain on May 27, 2017, 01:54:19 PM
The source for this outrageous claim is Alaskan social media?
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: katmai on May 27, 2017, 02:14:28 PM
Quote from: The Brain on May 27, 2017, 01:54:19 PM
The source for this outrageous claim is Alaskan social media?
no. From Facebook pages of friends of mine in Portlandia.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Jacob on May 27, 2017, 02:21:49 PM
Also happening in Portland:

Man yells racist things at brown women on the train. Two bystanders intervene and are stabbed to death by the racist guy.

http://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-train-attack-stabbing/
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: 11B4V on May 27, 2017, 02:34:15 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 27, 2017, 02:21:49 PM
Also happening in Portland:

Man yells racist things at brown women on the train. Two bystanders intervene and are stabbed to death by the racist guy.

http://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-train-attack-stabbing/

They stuck their nose into a situation. The point of their efforts was lost on the suspect.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Jacob on May 27, 2017, 02:38:15 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 27, 2017, 02:34:15 PM
They stuck their nose into a situation. The point of their efforts was lost on the suspect.

Okay and...?
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: 11B4V on May 27, 2017, 02:40:35 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 27, 2017, 02:38:15 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 27, 2017, 02:34:15 PM
They stuck their nose into a situation. The point of their efforts was lost on the suspect.

Okay and...?

If you can't handle an edgy situation, don't stick your nose in it.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Razgovory on May 27, 2017, 03:46:56 PM
That's really a bizarre thing to say.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 27, 2017, 03:54:17 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 27, 2017, 02:21:49 PM
Also happening in Portland:

Man yells racist things at brown women on the train. Two bystanders intervene and are stabbed to death by the racist guy.

http://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-train-attack-stabbing/

Good bless America, where your only options are:
1) Mind your business
2) Carry a gun
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Valmy on May 27, 2017, 06:45:40 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 27, 2017, 02:21:49 PM
Also happening in Portland:

Man yells racist things at brown women on the train. Two bystanders intervene and are stabbed to death by the racist guy.

http://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-train-attack-stabbing/

Convicted Felon eh? Prison tends to really radicalize these guys.

The cops got him so, once again, I hope for an uncontroversial trial.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Valmy on May 27, 2017, 06:46:42 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 27, 2017, 12:58:27 PM
Okay?

Destroying a small business for nationalist douchebag reasons kind of sucks.

Presuming that was why they closed. I don't know.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Jacob on May 27, 2017, 06:49:11 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 27, 2017, 02:40:35 PM
If you can't handle an edgy situation, don't stick your nose in it.

Sure. Of course that's easier to judge in retrospect.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Valmy on May 27, 2017, 06:51:03 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 27, 2017, 06:49:11 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 27, 2017, 02:40:35 PM
If you can't handle an edgy situation, don't stick your nose in it.

Sure. Of course that's easier to judge in retrospect.

Right. Unfortunately yelling racist shit is not uncommon enough for people to think that the person doing it is a dangerous felon. That is a pretty specific situation.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 27, 2017, 08:45:32 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 27, 2017, 06:49:11 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 27, 2017, 02:40:35 PM
If you can't handle an edgy situation, don't stick your nose in it.

Sure. Of course that's easier to judge in retrospect.

You do realize he's using tasteless knife-related puns because he's being a dick, right? Or are you just being a counter-dick in retaliation?
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: 11B4V on May 27, 2017, 11:46:51 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 27, 2017, 08:45:32 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 27, 2017, 06:49:11 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on May 27, 2017, 02:40:35 PM
If you can't handle an edgy situation, don't stick your nose in it.

Sure. Of course that's easier to judge in retrospect.

You do realize he's using tasteless knife-related puns because he's being a dick, right? Or are you just being a counter-dick in retaliation?

We walk a razor's edge here at Languish.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 28, 2017, 01:48:45 AM
That's putting a fine point on it.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Syt on May 28, 2017, 02:01:47 AM
Quote from: Jacob on May 27, 2017, 02:21:49 PM
Also happening in Portland:

Man yells racist things at brown women on the train. Two bystanders intervene and are stabbed to death by the racist guy.

http://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-train-attack-stabbing/

No win situation. You intervene, you get stabbed. You don't do anything, you empower to the douchebag. You call the cops, they laugh at you for calling them on this non-issue.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 28, 2017, 02:42:12 AM
I'm not sure ignoring crazies yelling things on buses "empowers" them.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Syt on May 28, 2017, 02:45:26 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on May 28, 2017, 02:42:12 AM
I'm not sure ignoring crazies yelling things on buses "empowers" them.

Not sure "empowers" is the word that describes what I meant. He would walk away thinking, "Well, that was all right, and no one interfered, so they tacitly agreed." Or at a minimum not noticing that this is not socially acceptable behavior.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: garbon on May 28, 2017, 04:31:20 AM
One of the guys that died intervening was a vet.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Razgovory on May 28, 2017, 05:08:11 AM
I guess the moral of the story is that you should shoot Nazis at first contact.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Maladict on May 28, 2017, 07:52:01 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 28, 2017, 04:31:20 AM
One of the guys that died intervening was a vet.

That didn't make sense at all, I actually started looking for an obscure pun, until I realized you meant veteran.  :blush:

Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: garbon on May 28, 2017, 08:10:12 AM
Quote from: Maladict on May 28, 2017, 07:52:01 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 28, 2017, 04:31:20 AM
One of the guys that died intervening was a vet.

That didn't make sense at all, I actually started looking for an obscure pun, until I realized you meant veteran.  :blush:



:lol:

This place has changed you, man.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: viper37 on May 28, 2017, 08:29:49 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 27, 2017, 03:54:17 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 27, 2017, 02:21:49 PM
Also happening in Portland:

Man yells racist things at brown women on the train. Two bystanders intervene and are stabbed to death by the racist guy.

http://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-train-attack-stabbing/

Good bless America, where your only options are:
1) Mind your business
2) Carry a gun
and be at an immediate disadvantage?  No thank you.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Valmy on May 28, 2017, 09:26:46 PM
I think that is a knife that puts you at a disadvantage. I miss Top Cat.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: The Larch on May 30, 2017, 05:58:33 AM
Apparently the county's GOP chairman is floating the idea of getting militias to act as security forces for Republican public events.  :wacko:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/29/portland-attack-republican-james-buchal-militia-groups (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/29/portland-attack-republican-james-buchal-militia-groups)

QuotePortland Republican says party should use militia groups after racial attack

County GOP chair James Buchal says security forces may be appropriate as tensions rise after two people died in a racial attack on public transport

(...)
Multnomah County GOP chair James Buchal, however, told the Guardian that recent street protests had prompted Portland Republicans to consider alternatives to "abandoning the public square".

"I am sort of evolving to the point where I think that it is appropriate for Republicans to continue to go out there," he said. "And if they need to have a security force protecting them, that's an appropriate thing too."

Asked if this meant Republicans making their own security arrangements rather than relying on city or state police, Buchal said: "Yeah. And there are these people arising, like the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters."

Asked if he was considering such groups as security providers, Buchal said: "Yeah. We're thinking about that. Because there are now belligerent, unstable people who are convinced that Republicans are like Nazis."


The Oath Keepers are described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "one of the largest radical antigovernment groups in the US", recruiting current and former military and law enforcement personnel. They have recently appeared at rallies from Berkeley to Boston, standing with activists from the far right, activists holding what were once fringe positions who have recently risen to national prominence.

The Three Percenters are described by Political Research Associates as "a paramilitary group that pledges armed resistance against attempts to restrict private gun ownership". They were a highly visible presence in Burns, Oregon, before and during the occupation of the Malheur wildlife refuge by rightwing militia early in 2016.

And nothing dispels accusations of being nazis than employing a private paramilitary force for security!
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 08:29:56 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 28, 2017, 05:08:11 AM
I guess the moral of the story is that you should shoot Nazis at first contact.

He was a Bernie voter.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Valmy on May 30, 2017, 08:32:04 AM
Quote from: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 08:29:56 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 28, 2017, 05:08:11 AM
I guess the moral of the story is that you should shoot Nazis at first contact.

He was a Bernie voter.

The evil of those Nazis knows no bounds :angry:
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: grumbler on May 30, 2017, 08:59:34 AM
Quote from: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 08:29:56 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 28, 2017, 05:08:11 AM
I guess the moral of the story is that you should shoot Nazis at first contact.

He was a Bernie voter.
:huh:  I thought Portland had the secret ballot, like everywhere else.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 11:00:52 AM
Quote from: grumbler on May 30, 2017, 08:59:34 AM
Quote from: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 08:29:56 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 28, 2017, 05:08:11 AM
I guess the moral of the story is that you should shoot Nazis at first contact.

He was a Bernie voter.
:huh:  I thought Portland had the secret ballot, like everywhere else.


Sometimes people post who they voted for on social media. 
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Valmy on May 30, 2017, 11:04:22 AM
Did he write in Bernie or something?
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 30, 2017, 11:09:05 AM
Quote from: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 11:00:52 AM
Sometimes people post who they voted for on social media.

And sometimes people lie about who they voted for.   :ph34r:
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Valmy on May 30, 2017, 11:11:03 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 30, 2017, 11:09:05 AM
Quote from: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 11:00:52 AM
Sometimes people post who they voted for on social media.

And sometimes people lie about who they voted for.   :ph34r:

Nobody we know though -_-
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 11:28:51 AM
:lol:  It's cute that some of you think I'd lie about something like that to avoid your scorn.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Valmy on May 30, 2017, 11:34:06 AM
Quote from: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 11:28:51 AM
:lol:  It's cute that some of you think I'd lie about something like that to avoid your scorn.

I find it endearing :hug:

But relax I would never scorn a fellow Big 12 fan. I mean one that is not a fan of OU anyway.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 11:52:31 AM
WVU finally made it back to the NCAA baseball tournament!  :punk:
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Valmy on May 30, 2017, 11:55:09 AM
Quote from: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 11:52:31 AM
WVU finally made it back to the NCAA baseball tournament!  :punk:

Yep. Great season for them. I went and watched them play Texas last weekend, naturally the only game Texas lost. I have been a bad luck charm this year. Texas went 28-7 at home and I attended four of those losses.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 30, 2017, 12:01:08 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 11:28:51 AM
:lol:  It's cute that some of you think I'd lie about something like that to avoid your scorn.

Who the fuck said we were talking about you?

I wrote in Grover Cleveland THE SECOND ONE
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 12:41:56 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 30, 2017, 12:01:08 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 11:28:51 AM
:lol:  It's cute that some of you think I'd lie about something like that to avoid your scorn.

Who the fuck said we were talking about you?

I wrote in Grover Cleveland THE SECOND ONE

You're always talking about me <triple snap>
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Jacob on May 30, 2017, 12:58:31 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 12:41:56 PM
You're always talking about me <triple snap>

You're so vain.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Eddie Teach on May 30, 2017, 02:48:05 PM
But he really is Seedy's Warren Beatty.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 30, 2017, 03:14:39 PM
Warren Beatty never tried to murder me.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Syt on May 30, 2017, 03:33:54 PM
Quote from: Jacob on May 30, 2017, 12:58:31 PM
Quote from: derspiess on May 30, 2017, 12:41:56 PM
You're always talking about me <triple snap>

You're so vain.

He probably thinks this song is about him.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: derspiess on May 31, 2017, 08:30:08 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 30, 2017, 03:14:39 PM
Warren Beatty never tried to murder me.

Oh PLEEZ gurl.  You'll KNOW when I'm tryin' to kill you.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 31, 2017, 09:05:14 AM
Quote from: derspiess on May 31, 2017, 08:30:08 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 30, 2017, 03:14:39 PM
Warren Beatty never tried to murder me.

Oh PLEEZ gurl.  You'll KNOW when I'm tryin' to kill you.

Then get in the car and let's dance, nigger.  Don't go dicking around with your vote to take away my healthcare.  Pussy ass faggot.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: derspiess on May 31, 2017, 09:57:05 AM
Dude I want you to live a long and healthy life.  This forum just isn't the same without you :hug:
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: CountDeMoney on May 31, 2017, 09:59:28 AM
Blow it out your ass, Herb.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Valmy on May 31, 2017, 10:01:00 AM
Oh you guys!
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: derspiess on May 31, 2017, 11:14:31 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 31, 2017, 09:59:28 AM
Blow it out your ass, Herb.

LOVE TRUMPS HATE
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Razgovory on May 31, 2017, 03:16:30 PM
"That's what liberalism gets you," - Jeremy Christian after murdering two men.
Title: Re: Stay weird Portland.
Post by: Zoupa on June 02, 2017, 12:45:52 AM
Your country sucks you guys. Kinda glad I didn't move there 2 years back like I was planning to  :sleep: