Jerry's Tavern
Jerry's Tavern is a Northwest Portland bar in the chat's vocabulary continuously since 2025-05-23 — the inside-on-a-sunny-day venue of the Newfound Glory Hole, divisive, occasionally weaponized in spousal disputes, and the site of the Creed jersey incident of May 1, 2026.
Jerry's Tavern
Jerry's Tavern (chat shorthand: Jerry's) is a Northwest Portland bar that occupies an unstable position in the rotation of hoen lunch venues. The proper name Jerry's Tavern enters the corpus on 2025-05-23 and recurs steadily for the next year. Unlike the consensus default of Laurelhurst, Jerry's is considered a value judgment — to choose Jerry's is to choose its very specific energy, which according to chat consensus is the energy of being indoors while the weather is good.
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First mention
The proper name is introduced by Cullen Conway on 2025-05-23:
"Jerry's tav" — Cullen Conway, 2025-05-23
The bare two-word post is the chat's standard form. Two months later Cullen elevates it to a formal proposal, alongside a screenshot of an apparent restaurant list:
"Jerry's Tavern is on this list. I propose we finally go." — Cullen Conway, 2025-08-01
Daniel Miller adds the venue's first structural critique:
"One thing with Jerry's, there is zero other stuff nearby. So we go, and we drink until they send us home" — Daniel Miller, 2025-08-01
2025 — the Ducks game thread
The chat's first sustained Jerry's mobilization is the 2025-10-09 → 2025-10-11 Oregon Ducks football thread, in which Cullen successfully moves the chat to actually attend:
"It's ambitious but we could do Jerry's…" — Cullen Conway, 2025-10-09 "I'll Jerry" — Daniel Miller, 2025-10-09 (love-tapped 🍻 by Cullen) "I'd like to watch ducks, perhaps at Jerry's. That doesn't mean we can't hang Friday" — Cullen Conway, 2025-10-09 "I'm in for Jerry's and happy to host the boys and kids tomorrow evening" — Brian Ambuel, 2025-10-09 "The guys have gone quiet but can we agree to Jerry's for the DUX at 12:30 tomorrow?" — Cullen Conway, 2025-10-11 "Jerry's vibe check" — Evan Bbbender, 2025-10-11 (love-tapped 🍻 by Brian and Max) "Are yall not at Jerry's?" — Kyle Derrick, 2025-10-11 "This is Jerry's" — Evan Bbbender, 2025-10-11
By the end of the day Kyle has filed a follow-up "Ultimately ending up at Jerry's tavern" (2025-10-21), confirming the venue's place in the rotation.
2026 — March hoen-day debate
The defining 2026 exchange occurred on March 18, 2026, when Cullen Conway proposed "We could fucking Jerry's hoen," and Daniel Miller crystallized the chat's settled opinion in a single sentence:
"Jerry's is cool, I like being inside when its nice out, you don't have to imagine what its like to be depressed." — Daniel Miller, 2026-03-18
Cullen, deadpan, immediately offered the counterargument:
"Jerry's has outdoor seating too Dan if you want to get depressed."
The chat's reticence around Jerry's is owned by Evan Bbbender:
"I'm not just trying to go to blutos but I'm meh on Jerry's" — Evan Bbbender, 2026-03-18 "If yall want Jerry's we could Jerry's" — Evan Bbbender, 2026-03-19
The latter, while syntactically compliant, is widely understood as resigned rather than enthusiastic.
Use as a marital provocation
On March 20, 2026, Cullen Conway recorded what is generally considered the most candid moment in the corpus on the subject of Jerry's:
"Amanda said she'd go to Jerry's with me and I almost did just to piss Evan off." — Cullen Conway, 2026-03-20
Evan Bbbender replied: "I'll go to Jerry's idc." — and then, reading correctly between the lines, "To see Amanda." The exchange is unique in the corpus in that it documents Amanda as the chat's preferred mechanism for resolving venue disputes — a structural feature whose mechanism the encyclopedia is unwilling to diagnose.
The Creed jersey incident
The single most-discussed event at Jerry's took place on May 1, 2026, during what Cullen had earlier billed as a "Jerry's Hoeny's" outing. Cullen reported in real time:
"A patron just gifted Jerry a signed Creed jersey so now he's blasting Creed."
Matt responded with the kind of question only Matt produces:
"What team does Creed play for and signed by all founding members or just Scott Stapp?"
The matter was not resolved.