Brooke Geery

Carts on Foster

Location: Corner of SE 52nd and Foster Number of carts: 11 Covered: Yes Obligatory Score: 3 https://www.facebook.com/CartsOnFoster The parking lot that houses Carts on Foster has come along way since it was All Pets Playhouse - a decrepit-looking animal boarding house that I never saw open. Now it's a bustling cart pod, with a lot more carts than the one other time I awkwardly walked through and then decided to go somewhere else a few months ago. Pretty flowersss! I use the term bustling loosely, it's not that crowded which is a good thing if you hate waiting in line for food like I do. (That's one issue with food…
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The Woodstock Cart Pod

Location: 45th and Woodstock Ave Number of Carts: 3 Covered Section: No Obligatory score: 5 Note:  This was supposed to be my introductory post, but I spazzily posted about Cartlandia first. I may start writing about every cart individually and inserting Jared's "spicy but not too spicy" input in each one, or more likely just highlight the ones I like, but I really want to start with the pods themselves. After all, part of dining is the experience and I don't care how good the food is if you feel icky eating there. So let's start with the neighborhood I claim to live in (even though my house is technically…
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Cartlandia

Location: 82nd Ave at Spring Water Corridor Number of Carts: A lot Covered: Yes Obligatory Score: 1 http://www.cartlandia.com/ Despite it's adorable kitschy name, Cartlandia is about the least "Portlandlandia" place in Portland. Yes, it claims "bike-centric" and is on the Springwater Corridor -- a Portland-y bike path lined with wild blackberries-- but the PDX stereotypes end there. There are tons of carts, but this must be the cheapest place to rent space in Portland, because is seems it's mostly people who probably shouldn't own restaurants and are just "trying it out." Some I've tried are fine, but certainly not food you'd drool over and want to seek out again. My…
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The RE-BRANDING: This blog is about Food Carts Now!

So you may have guessed I got bored with trying to eat lunch on Hawthorne every day. It was expensive, we ran out of restaurants we weren't specifically avoiding, and oh yeah, I moved my office to felony flats. Well, technically we've rebranded it the "Flavel Arts District" hoping it'll catch on like Alberta did, but apparently white trash people are harder to gentrify. Anyway! I was just in a heated debate with Stan about our two nearest Food Cart pod locations (actually it wasn't heated at all, we agreed) and realized, I could start food blogging again, but about cart pods. I'm way better at keeping these things going…
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Oh Hai! Social Networks are Driving me Insane

I've been neglecting this blog for all this time. As the "queen of Internet snowboarding" I really should be trying harder to keep my social presence up, but I heard blogging is dead. I mean, follow me on Instagram, Twitter, Vine, Snapchat and if you want we can play Words with Friends. Anyway, I've been so busy trying to promote Yobeat with all this social networks that I've been finding it hard to create content. You probably haven't noticed, I can post videos with my eyes closed these days, and I've had Stan doing stuff. But just so you know, I have been on Auto pilot for months. I think…
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So You Want to Sue Me…

Every so often, I write something offensive. Something that's just mean, or uncalled for, or whatever. This was not one of those times. No, this time I wrote a review of a children's book about snowboarding formatted as a third-grade book report and purposely written to sound that way. Well, the publishers of said book apparently didn't like my review. Rather than just ignoring it, which would have been the appropriate response, they sent me the following email: Hello Brooke Geery, I am a legal representative for the Adventure Zoo Crew. Recently we found that you wrote a very dishonest article on one of our books "Sammy the Shredder". Not…
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