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title: 'Whiffies and Food Carts Portland featured on MSNBC, Strange Love Live gets a cameo'
date: '2009-11-10T08:43:15-08:00'
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# Whiffies and Food Carts Portland featured on MSNBC, Strange Love Live gets a cameo

We’re a fairly tight-knit community here in the Portland startup scene. Even if those startups have nothing to do with tech.

One of the best examples? The Portland food cart scene. We know it’s awesome. And it’s also a primary source of sustenance that fuels any number of late night hacking session—or even daytime hacking session depending on the cart.

Arguably, there is no more beloved cart—at least by the local geeks—than [Whiffies](http://www.whiffies.com/ "Whiffies"), the fried pie cart at [Cartopia on SE Hawthorne](http://foursquare.com/venue/96163 "Cartopia on Foursquare"). Especially because [Whiffies’ strong Twitter presence](http://twitter.com/whiffies "Whiffies"). So it was great to see Whiffies, [Food Carts Portland](http://foodcartsportland.com/2009/11/10/portlands-food-carts-on-nbc/ "Food Carts Portland")‘s [Dieselboi](http://twitter.com/dieselboi "Dieselboi"), and even [Strange Love Live](http://strangelovelive.com "Strange Love Live") getting a [little love from the national press](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/33800460#33800460 "Food cart bloggers take the cake").

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Nice to see some of the most hardworking folks I know get some of the recognition they so richly deserve.

For more on all things food cart in the Rose City, visit [Food Carts Portland](http://foodcartsportland.com/ "Food Carts Portland").

*(Hat tip to [Lizzy Caston](http://twitter.com/misslizzyc/status/5591479578 "Lizzy Caston"))*