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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Politics / Chow Touché, Wyoming.

Posted by Lindy West on Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:51 PM

From a friend currently stranded in Gillette, WY (a town whose main attraction is literally called The Rockpile Museum):

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You got 'em good there, restaurant. You got 'em good.

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1
Yay! Wyoming finally made Slog.
Posted by jesse in Wyoming on June 30, 2009 at 1:56 PM
Cato the Younger Younger 2
Well, one of the interesting traits we somehow have carried on from our days as English colonies is the irrational hatred of the French.

"Bring Calias home to England!!"
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on June 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM
smade 3
They know their market well.
Posted by smade on June 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM
bearseatbeats 4
Espèces de salopards!
Posted by bearseatbeats on June 30, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Karlheinz Arschbomber 5
Le grenouille mange le pamplemousse. Sauf en Wyoming.
Posted by Karlheinz Arschbomber http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arschbombe on June 30, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Julie in Eugene 6
Does the menu have "Freedom Fries" on it too? Because that would be excellent.
Posted by Julie in Eugene on June 30, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Original Monique 7
Yeah, I wonder if the people who wrote that menu have EVER BEEN TO FRANCE. My guess is no.
Posted by Original Monique http://www.facebook.com/notifications.php#/group.php?gid=124801948427 on June 30, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Andy_Squirrel 8
they could've just named it Freedom Steak and pretend they didn't know about the French version
Posted by Andy_Squirrel on June 30, 2009 at 2:20 PM
bearseatbeats 9
@7

Could they even find France on a map? My guess is no.
Posted by bearseatbeats on June 30, 2009 at 2:22 PM
10
"We invented democracy, existentialism and the blowjob."
Posted by Formula Une on June 30, 2009 at 2:29 PM
11
I have been through Gillette three times on roadtrips across the country. You actually want to hang out at the Rockpile (which really is just a big pile of rocks – the attached museum is always closed) because it seems like the only thing anyone in Gillette was ever excited about. Gillette seems like a town full of Dick Cheney's relatives. There is a weird undertone of violence in Gillette – you feel like you might get beat down at any second. I can say it's the only place I've been in the entire country, except for parts of central South Carolina, where I was afraid to go into the bars. (I actually didn't see any bars, but I didn't want to search them out, on account of I was a'feerd.) All of that being said, I know that everywhere has it's good parts and I probably just missed them. I did have a crappy but oddly enjoyable burrito in a cinder block Tex-Mex restaurant there. And this concludes my treatise on Gillette.

Oh, here's a picture I took of the Rockpile:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/strathshepa…
Posted by Strath http://pacific-standard.blogspot.com on June 30, 2009 at 2:31 PM
12
Is dat one of dem there square states, Wyomin'?
Posted by CommonKnowledge on June 30, 2009 at 2:39 PM
13
Actually Gilette has one really cool thing and that is a waterpark with a big waterslide that only costs 4 dollars for adults. So if you are stuck there, that is something fun to do.

http://www.ccprd.com/2009_Summer_Brochur…
pool info on page 6
Posted by econoline on June 30, 2009 at 2:51 PM
Max Solomon 14
in 1988 my vw rabbit broke down on the crow res on the montana border. a highway worker picked us up, drove us to Gillette, let us use his phone, his wife made us pancakes at 11 pm, then drove us back to the car to meet AAA.

Gillette is OK with me.
Posted by Max Solomon on June 30, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Urgutha Forka 15
The name "Gillette" sounds French to me.
Posted by Urgutha Forka on June 30, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Fnarf 16
@9, I doubt most of them could find WYOMING on a map.

Good band, Rockpile.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on June 30, 2009 at 4:01 PM
julie russell 17
I was once stranded on a roadtrip in small town Iowa. We were all vegetarians and the only restaurant in town was a grill-yer-own steak place.
Posted by julie russell http://www.fabbseattle.org on June 30, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Brian Cook 18
got a flat tire outside of Gillette once. heard on the news a few weeks later that a Gillette tire store owner had been shooting out the tires of cars as they were driving on the interstate in an attempt to bring more business to his establishment.

and the last time i stopped there i saw a guy walk out of a tattoo shop with a fresh "white pride" tattoo on his calf. definitely not my favorite town in wyoming.
Posted by Brian Cook on June 30, 2009 at 5:35 PM
19
@7, @9 and @16 -- so you respond to Wyoming's France-directed xenophobia with ... your own Wyoming-directed xenophobia. Slick!
Posted by Monty on June 30, 2009 at 6:52 PM
RainMan 20
French bashing is so 2003. Although it is kind of fun to ridicule their love of Jerry Lewis.

I liked Devil's Tower, which isn't too far from Gilette.
Posted by RainMan on June 30, 2009 at 8:19 PM
jimmy 21
Whatever. I'll have it all - medium rare.
Posted by jimmy http://www.mybigfatlazyblog.blogspot.com on June 30, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Gomez 22
19. Well, Seattlites only THINK they're open minded....
Posted by Gomez http://gomezticator.livejournal.com on June 30, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Timmytee 23
And what about that "aged six weeks" sirloin--doesn't that just sound, oh, I don't know, WRONG, somehow? AND--isn't "sirloin" a French word?
Posted by Timmytee on July 1, 2009 at 6:26 AM

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