Mine came in a shallow bowl ringed with translucent pickle slices so it looked like a radioactive sunflower exploding with meat. Though metaphysically ill-conceived, it was not bad. Carolinians have been mixing pulled pork with slaw and pickles for a century and if you ignored the clinging grains of rice you could imagine you were down South. The pork was cooked slow enough that the big chunks were fall-apart tender. The sweet smoky barbecue sauce was used with restraint.
Silly’s has made a mascot of the man who first uncovered time’s curving mutability. Their sign features the famous image of Einstein, tongue extended, purportedly acting goofy. But it is just as possible the camera caught the elderly professor preparing to be spoon fed a mushy morsel to gum and swallow along with another bit of dignity. Time’s randomness and indeterminacy is Einstein’s legacy and leap year’s lesson. Rosie’s ignores it and Silly’s seeks to affirm it. Portlanders can choose accordingly.
Brian Duff can be reached at bduff@une.edu.
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