Portland food

Portland food

On the face of it, it was kind of funny, but the caption told an entirely more nuanced story: if you were to show up at the restaurant's downtown location that weekend during the No Kings protest wearing an inflatable costume, you could have a beer for $3, but if you wore a frog costume, you could have a beer for free. It was the most popular post in the history of Lardo's social media accounts.

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How do the small birds in the street know how not to die— that whatever they gather, hunger for, is never enough to keep them in the road when our wheels bear down upon them?