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The Olympic Committee, usually just occupied with peering deep into the urine of the world's best athletes and accepting hearing out bids from potential host countries, took some time out from its busy schedule to screw with Portland's best sausage.
Olympic Provisions, named after the 1920 Olympic Mills Building where the business began, will have to change its name to Olympia Provisions. In a press release today, virtuoso sausagemaker Elias Cairo's company sent a press release calling the name change "a solution to a specific trademark law stipulation, which was brought to Olympia's attention by the Olympic Committee last year."
In 2009, Olympic Provisions became Oregon's first sausagemaker to receive USDA certification as a salumeria, using old-world, dry-curing techniques, and has expanded into two restaurant locations in both Northwest and Southeast Portland.
âThis small change in name is just a minor hurdle for our growing company, and weâre focused on making the best meat in the nation,â writes Cairo.
OK fine, it's just a letter at the end of the word. We get it. But it's now hard to be upset with the U.S. Olympic Committee's decision to roll with Boston—the losers of the great Portland namesake coinflip—as their pick for the 2024 Olympic bid.
Because, man, we've already been running the Olympics for years.
Full press release below.
WWeek 2015