Meet the Sex Worker-Owned Food Cart Serving Fruit Tamales in Pasties

Walking into the Lil’ America pod, visitors may order Korean fried chicken and mashed potatoes, or saltfish-stuffed Guyanese bakes, from the carts inside. If they walk up to the hot pink cart, however, they can order oat milk shakes, blackberry-filled tamales, and vegan corn dogs from a server in booty shorts.

Speed-o Cappuccino, one of the carts in Portland’s new, exclusively queer- and BIPOC-owned food cart pod, is, in many ways, a recipe for success in Portland: The cart specializes in vegan stoner foods like burgers and fried snacks, tamales, coffee. It’s also a bikini barista, a thoroughly Pacific Northwestern business model in which scantily clad servers supply

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