Pawhuska - The Pioneer Woman Mercantile

[SoonerDave]

This thread hijack has gotten ridiculous.

[SOONER8693]

This thread hijack has gotten ridiculous.

Amen!

[Martin]

alright... let's stick to topic. pioneer woman mercantile, 2017. if you want to have a discussion about osage county history, start another thread.

[traxx]

alright... let's stick to topic. pioneer woman mercantile, 2017. if you want to have a discussion about osage county history, start another thread.

Agree

It was just starting to get back on track before it got hijacked again.

[Pete]

^

I edited out the part that has nothing to do with this particular business.

[d-usa]

I've seen 2 hour waits at Pops in Arcadia before. Fans will wait for a chance to eat at a destination.

[Eric]

I've seen 2 hour waits at Pops in Arcadia before. Fans will wait for a chance to eat at a destination.

I guess a better way to put it is, I can't believe people would wait that long for a meal that they could better prepare at home. I honestly am a fan of her cookbook recipes. I have never made one I didn't care for. I know they are simple southern country recipes, but there is just something that makes them slightly better. Probably more butter.

[d-usa]

But they are likely not waiting that long for the food, rather than waiting that long to eat at a destination.

Hence my comparison to Pops. People aren't waiting that long there for a burger, they are waiting that long to eat at Pops on Route 66.

[traxx]

But they are likely not waiting that long for the food, rather than waiting that long to eat at a destination.

Hence my comparison to Pops. People aren't waiting that long there for a burger, they are waiting that long to eat at Pops on Route 66.

Agree

My younger kids enjoy Pops, but it's for the spectacle. I've never thought their food was that great. I've never been to The Merc or Chip and Joanna Gaines tourist attraction, but I would think it's the same kind of thing. People are going for the spectacle and because they're fans of the TV show rather than because they think they'll get a great meal.

[SoonerDave]

Agree

My younger kids enjoy Pops, but it's for the spectacle. I've never thought their food was that great. I've never been to The Merc or Chip and Joanna Gaines tourist attraction, but I would think it's the same kind of thing. People are going for the spectacle and because they're fans of the TV show rather than because they think they'll get a great meal.

That more or less becomes a big Catch-22; people want to eat at the destination because of the spectacle, so the spectacle induces demand, demand induces waits, waits become long, food can't possibly match the hype induced by the wait. So, yes, no one thinks the food is *that* spectacular, but I'd go so far as to say *no place* has food that *really* merits a 3-hour wait.

I mentioned that in my travelblog in the earlier post; the lunch we had was OK, but not spectacular, but then no place is likely to have food so amazing that it would match up to the expectations created by a 3-hour wait. The food wasn't bad at all - just nothing that left me "wowed" in the sense of "That was the best chicken-fry ever!!" Because it wasn't. Babe's and Lambert's both had it beat, and by a comfortable margin.

But the trip made my wife happy. And we all know the rest of that saying...