A good food cart pod makes you wish for a hippo-sized stomach. A great one forces you to accept the gut you were given and make a second trip — which is exactly what happened when I hit up the seven-cart lot on Barger Drive.
I heard about the food pod from my Lyft driver a few months after I moved to Eugene. He was from Colombia, so we practiced our Spanish and English on the drive past Autzen Stadium. I told him I was a food reporter (“Escribo sobre comida!”), and he said he loved the food of his home country.
Naturally, I had to ask if he knew of any Colombian eateries in the area.
“¿Tienes recomendaciones?” I asked, my pronunciation begging for a Spanish lesson. “¿Hay comida colombiana cerca de aqui?”…