Burgerville with Jordan Morris and Bill Oakley (live)

"Burgerville with Jordan Morris and Bill Oakley (live)" is Episode 349 of *Doughboys*, hosted by Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell. "Burgerville with Jordan Morris and Bill Oakley (live)" was released on May 12, 2022.

## Synopsis

Jordan Morris (*Jordan, Jesse, Go!*, *Bubble*) and Bill Oakley (*The Simpsons*, *Portlandia*) join the 'boys to exchange rideshare stories before a review of Burgerville. Plus, a special edition of Snack or Wack.

Recorded live at Revolution Hall in Portland May 1, 2022.

## Nick's intro

1961 would prove an enormously consequential year for the cultural identity of Portland, Oregon (though indirectly).

The first event involved the fledgling National Basketball Association, an 8-team professional league which decided to found its first expansion franchise, the Chicago Packers - still operating today in a different city and name as the Washington Wizards. By the end of the '60s, the league had added a half-dozen future franchises; several of them champions - the Bulls, the Bucks, the Rockets, the Suns - as well as the Seattle Supersonics (though it's bizarre today to think of Seattle having an NBA team). And in 1970, the league added three more to its arsenal: the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Buffalo Braves (who would became the famously feckless and inept Los Angeles Clippers), and the Portland Trail Blazers.

The Blazers would find the most immediate success, winning the championship in their first decade of operation, under league MVP and noted marijuana enthusiast, Bill Walton, and today are one of the league's iconic franchises with Hall of Fame players like Clyde "The Glide" Drexler, the late Drazen Petrovic, and of course, Damian Lillard.

The other transformative event of 1961 was in the neighboring city of Vancouver, Washington and didn't involve basketballs, but rather baskets... of fries, as a sit-down restaurateur named George Propstra opened a fast-food concept serving a 39-cent Colossal Burger.

The company would grow into a regional chain, the bulk of its branches in the greater Rip City area, relying on locally sourced ingredients before that was a trend. In 2018, employees at a Portland branch organized as the nation's first federally-recognized fast-food union, calling a boycott until the company negotiated a contract: a boycott that ended in victory for the workers in December, 2021 with a collectively-bargained agreement that made major gains in pay and working conditions. Today, five locations are unionized and some union-negotiated deal points like tipping have been expanded to all locations. And with recent union victories in the omnipresent Pacific Northwest-founded companies, Starbucks and Amazon, an ascendent labor movement may be one sliver of light in a dark age in America.

This week on *Doughboys*, Burgerville.

## Fork rating

* Best Coast Turkey Burger
* Crispy Halibut Sandwich
* Vegi-Bean Burger
* Crispy Chicken Sandwich
* Mint Patty Bliss Shake
* Portland Cold Brew Bliss Shake
 Mike Mitchell
* Colossal Burger
* Hopyard Cheddar Burger
* Portland Cold Brew Shake
* Oregon Strawberry Shake
* Mint Patty Shake
 Jordan Morris
* Hopyard Cheddar Burger
* Portland Cold Brew Shake
 Bill Oakley
* Oregon Strawberry Bliss Shake
* Mint Patty Shake
 shared
* Chicken & Chips
* Waffley Fries
* Classic Fries
* Burgerville's Signature Dipping Sauces (all of them)
* Caramel & Cookies Bliss Ice Cream Sandwich
* Strawberry Lemonade Ice Cream Sandwich

Nick, Mitch, and Jordan each made a few trips to Burgerville (I think once together; many of their items seem to have been shared), and Bill went four times in the week before the show (but didn't fully specify everything he ordered).

**Mitch's Sip of the Trip** went to the Portland Cold Brew Shake.

With these scores, Burgerville makes the Golden Plate Club!

## Snack or Wack: Donut or Don'tut edition 🍩🚫

Eat a dozen, then get ill
Paying anything for chocolate iced
Just one more bite!

Some are cake, some are raised
Some are even double-glazed
When a meal never ends
It goes nom a nom a nom a nom

Strangers eating up and down the donut box
Old-fashioned sprinkles for a bite
Sweet bites, eat holes
?? Dunkin' Donut
Snackin' somewhere for a bite

(guitar solo)

Donuts or Don'tNut
So good that it makes you nut
Eat bites, sweet holes
Donuts or Don'tNut
So good!!!
Eat bites, sweet holes
Donut or Don'tNut
So good that it makes you nut
Eat bites, sweet holes
Do Nut!*

In Snack or Wack, the Doughboys taste a snack item and rate it either 'snack' or 'wack.'

In this episode, they try three donuts from Blue Star, a local chain in Portland (though there are two in Los Angeles also). They have Tropical Delight, The O.G. (Orxata Glaze), and Strawberry Sakura.

 Mike Mitchell
 Jordan Morris
 Bill Oakley

## The Feedbag

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