Got a note in my in-box about a huge protest being planned for the noon hour Thursday, Dec. 3. It's not a tax protest, no Teabaggers or Birthers, or even LaRouche zealots.

This appears to be a blow-up over black bean burgers.

From noon-1 p.m., rabble-rousers are encouraged to join a protest over Little Big's switch from an ooey gooey mushroom slider to a bitty black bean burger.

Our favorite slider joint, Little Bigs, had a great thing going. While everyone else was offering nothing but standard beef sliders, they took it to another level with their tiny Portobello mushroom slider. That delicious little mushroom burger was our favorite, and now it’s gone, replaced by a lackluster black bean substitute. And this makes us very, very sad. Perhaps, the saddest we’ve ever been. Which is why ... we are taking our complaints to the streets in a BIG way. We are holding Bryan Caswell, the brainchild behind Little Bigs and this horrendous mistake, hostage (sssshhhh, don’t tell!) until he surrenders to our demands and brings the Portobello slider back. We’ll be meeting early to make protest signs and prepare for what might be the greatest battle in the history of our city. Are you with us? This is not a joke. Black Sheep do NOT take food lightly.

That was posted on the organizer Lindsay Bosslet's blog. Bosslet self identifies as a "PR prodigy" and "rebel."

Smelling a silly stunt, I tossed the email and didn't think much more about it until my pal Greg Morago asked me to accompany him to the new Little Big's at Hermann Park. I had reported the switch to the black bean patty in October, but had forgotten how forlorn it was until the visit to the park. Nothing can fix this, not even killer fries:

Black bean slider: Syd Kearney : 29-95
Bosslet is promising free sliders to whomever joins her protest at the Little Big's on Montrose. She promised me fries if I wrote about it.

Done.