Portland Is Spoofed in New Show, ‘Portlandia’
PORTLAND, Ore. — The first episode of “Portlandia,” a new television show that pokes at this Northwest confection’s urban preciousness, includes a scene in which a couple at a restaurant interrogates a waitress about the quality of the life lived by a chicken they hope to order.
The couple soon learns that the bird was raised locally on sheep’s milk, soy and hazelnuts, and that it had a name, Colin.
“He looks like a happy little guy who runs around,” says the character played by Fred Armisen, a Saturday Night Live star and a creator of “Portlandia,” when he is shown a photograph of a pre-plucked version of the bird. “A lot of friends?”
It is a funny moment, a sendup of this city’s obsession with provenance. Yet the fact that it is a spoof might not always be clear.
“This is Sir Francis Bacon,” said Jamie Dunn, the owner of the Gilt Club, the restaurant in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood where the scene was filmed in September. “The pork head mortadella came right out of this skull.” [...]
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