Portland's Taco Festival

I didn't go to it. I just read about it.

People never visualize failure. Some people don't anyway. I always do.

You might also visualize people thinking you're racist.

There was just a disastrous "Taco Festival" in Portland, Oregon. I knew nothing about it until I read this online from the Oregonian:
 

In a statement, the Portland Taco Festival's Colorado-based organizers blamed a lack of signage and infrastructure problems for some of Saturday's problems, which included heat, long lines and a what appeared to be a limited number of vendors actually serving tacos at the festival, held at North Portland horse racing track Portland Meadows.

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The event was first announced in early summer, not long after controversy erupted around Kooks Burritos, a breakfast burrito food cart run by two white women who claimed to have learned their tortilla recipe by "peeking into windows" of restaurants in Puerto Nuevo, Mexico. The festival drew similar criticism out of the gate for its broad depictions of Mexican culture, including a "chihuahua beauty contest" and attendees posing in lucha libre masks.

"The Portland Taco Festival ads plastered with hipsters posing behind hard shell taco cutouts and white boys donning Lucha Libre masks are just another example of the Pacific Northwest's tone-deaf, casual racism," Latino-focused digital media company Mitú argued in a recent post.


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But that was nothing compared to the social media maelstrom that started during the festival's first day. Facebook posts and tweets by the hundreds warned that the festival was not going as advertised, with high entry and parking fees leading to only a handful of taco carts, some of which reportedly sold out after just 90 minutes. The chaos drew comparisons to Fyre Festival, the luxury music and lifestyle event from rapper Ja Rule that was canceled after attendees arrived in the Bahamas to find a festival in disarray.

"Where were the tacos?" Facebook user Joe Dabrowski wrote in a typical post. "I saw Greek, BBQ, fried chicken, icecream but only 4 taco trucks at the taco fest!?!?!? On top of that half the places didn't have power for hours, there were no trash cans and the DJ sucked."

"We went to this festival on Saturday, August 26th and left within 30 minutes," Richa Khandelwal wrote in an email. "There were several things wrong with it. There were only 5 food trucks with 2 hours wait, additional charges for parking when advertised for free, bathrooms not adequately supplied with toilet paper, ran out of water, food trucks losing power supply, ran out of food etc.