One of my absolute favorite thing about the food scene in Portland is our willingness to try new things. Whenever we hear about something good, we start finding it in restaurants and that's great. But, can we please stop trying to make every dish more Portland-y. We overdo it and betray the original purpose of the meal. I can easily buy a fourteen dollar po'boy in Portland. A fourteen dollar tab for a sandwich that was originally designed to feed striking streetcar workers. The bread might be really good in Portland, and the ingredients are also great, but can we stop pretending it's still a po'boy at his point. The target demographic for that sandwich should be obvious since it's built right in the name. What poor boy spends fourteen bucks on a sandwich? Nashville hot chicken is another hard find. We don't like food as spicy as they do in the south so, when you order hot chicken in Portland, you'll find something pretty tame. Is it really still hot chicken when I can eat spicier apples? Again, it's great that we're willing to try new things but if you insist on dressing the dish up for a Northwest palate, and you move so far away from the original intent of the dish, just come up with a new name for it. Stop riding the coattails of somebody else's reputation. Or how about just serving the dish the way it was intended? Hot chicken didn't become famous in Nashville for it's mildness.