{"id":8226,"date":"2012-10-26T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=8226"},"modified":"2012-10-26T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T22:04:06","slug":"portland-sausage-shack-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8226","title":{"rendered":"Portland, OR &#8211; The Sausage Shack Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cart2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8230\" title=\"cart2\" alt=\"Sausage Shack Portland Food Cart\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cart2-300x174.png\" width=\"210\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a>Was feeling a might peckish after getting dropped in downtown post high-roller biz meeting at low rent coffee shop in NE. \u00a0Was determined to head straight to Alder pod, but got dropped on Naito, and threw on the foot brakes when I walked past the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxsausageshack.com\/\">Sausage Shack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d heard about this sausage and bacon wonderland, but short on cash, I bypassed the tubular nutrition delivery vehicles and opted for a piping hot, made-to-order mound of chili cheese fries. \u00a0They come in your choice of shoestring or curly, and I opted for the former, as I have never cottoned up to the curly variety.<\/p>\n<p>The affable attendant took my $ and said &#8220;I&#8217;ll have those for you as soon as I can,&#8221; \u00a0which I actually took as a good sign, and a hint that he was going to prepare them fresh, I wasn&#8217;t going to be getting some soggy heat-lamp aging fries.<\/p>\n<p>And right I was. \u00a0It took a couple minutes, but he fried up a fresh batch, ladled on the chili, sprinkled some shredded cheese on top, stuck a fork in them and called them done.<\/p>\n<p>I loved them. The fries were crisp and salty, the chili steaming and meaty (a few beans, too), and the cheese cold and ample. $4.00, and worth every <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/farthing\">farthing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I polished them off standing at one of the &#8220;USA Today&#8221; al fresco dining tables one finds scattered around every city (nice of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gannett.com\/\">Gannett<\/a> to put them out for us, eh?)<\/p>\n<p>Perusing their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxsausageshack.com\/Menu.html\">menu<\/a> after the fact, I know I&#8217;ll be back. \u00a0Get me some of dem bacon wrapped delights!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8231\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cart1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8231\" title=\"cart1\" alt=\"Sausage Shack Portland Food Cart\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/cart1.png\" width=\"448\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chili Cheese Fries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/24\/1700207\/restaurant\/Downtown\/Sausage-Shack-Food-Cart-Portland\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" alt=\"Sausage Shack (Food Cart) on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1700207\/biglink.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sausage shack review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was feeling a might peckish after getting dropped in downtown post high-roller biz meeting at low rent coffee shop in NE. \u00a0Was determined to head straight to Alder pod, but got dropped on Naito, and threw on the foot brakes when I walked past the Sausage Shack. I&#8217;d heard about this sausage and bacon wonderland,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8226\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portland, OR &#8211; The Sausage Shack Review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,15,16,26],"tags":[384,2791,2816,2820],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}