Great Plains

[resk]

"The Great Plains are the broad expanse of prairie, steppe and grassland which lie west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming . . ." so speaketh

Comments

[k_sui]

I, for one, am completely tired, worn out and verging on angry when people, including marketing dipsh*ts, generalize the Great Plains as the font of "Aw shucks, I'll give you a square deal." If anything, the Great Plains represent the exact and precise opposite. It is a place where Native Americans were ruthlessly and systematically killed via a progrom of genocide that would make Stalin proud. (Not that it in any way shape or form is different than any other place in the hemisphere, but still.) It is the place that gave us the most shocking landgrabs in American history that only stopped upon passage of the Taylor Grazing Act. It is the home to two of the most duplicitous, rapacious and without-conscience multinational corporations in existence today -- Monsanto and ADM (sorry, southern Minnesota -- I've been there and you're basically North Iowa

[resk]

So you don't like the name either.

As an alternative, I suggest:

The Jame Gumb Burger Company.

"We'll put your burger in a basket, or else we get the hose again."

[k_sui]

I return the favor with . . .

The Dan Rather Burger Company

"We make your burger or else . . . WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY KENNETH?"

[ozy_y2k]

I vote for "Dead Cows Burger Company". Truth in advertising, and all, you know.