The Political Environment: The Gobbler Is For Sale

Monday, December 7, 2009

I'm looking at you, Phil.

Jim Bouman said...: I was there once in 1973.

Hungry.

Ordered a turkey sandwich.

It was turkey roll.

Inedible.

Jimmy Hartwig was there, playing on the orbiting Hammond B3.

It was "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" or Calypso music, or something else awful.

AWFUL.

It wasn' unreasonable to expect sliced roast turkey on sourdough toast, with a little gravy on the side.

I could have ignored the bad sandwich if I'd heard Charles Earland or Jimmy Smith on that B3.

But to go to the Gobbler and get neither was just wrong.; December 8, 2009 at 12:41 PM
James Rowen said...: Jim: I think The Gobbler was always about the experience, not the food.

Which is why the Historical Society or some other group - - does Old World Wisconsin still exist - - should buy it as a tourist attraction.

Perhaps there are stimulus funds available.; December 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Anon Jim said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; December 9, 2009 at 11:01 AM