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The road to hell is paved with fusion cuisine.
I had some of my high-school buddies visit me a few months ago. I took them to some of the best restaurants and food carts that Portland had to offer, we took a pub crawl that hit up all the microbreweries, grabbed a Voodoo Donut, the whole "tourist trap experience." I spent most of the night teasing them relentlessly because they wouldn't eat anything that couldn't be found on a Denny's menu.

The bewildered looks on their faces was priceless. "Wait, nevermind, they put salt in it! Who puts salt in chocolate ice cream?!? Oh wait, nevermind, I can just get vanilla!"
 

If that was true, Burritos wouldn't exist.

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I mean .... just wrapping up other food in a tortilla doesn't make it acceptable.

Most burritos are just the tuxedo t-shirt of the culinary universe.
 


In Portland, we have a variety of food carts, portable restaurants that serve an enormous variety of foods, and food combinations. It's not uncommon to see spaghetti being served right next to pad thai, or to see corn dogs on the same menu as sushi.

It's a culinary Wild West out here...no rules, anything goes, the top gun in town gets shot down every few weeks. Eat kimchi on a hot dog. Have a bulgolgi burrito. Ya'll keep saying "pineapple on a pizza, oh the humanity, what is up with New Zealand" and we're out here drinking artisanal marionberry soda with our Scandinavian-Cajun fusion herring po'boy, wondering what all the fuss is about.
In Toronto we have something a little different. Some years back a "heritage building" 'mysteriously' burnt down. It was considered historic because several historic Canadian figures slept there. I'm well informed that the building used to be a brothel, so damned little sleeping was involved.

Anyway, once the site was cleaned up a farm of modified cargo containers sprang up:

 





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