Yellowstone Park Company – Hotel Bar Soap

“Jellystone Mess”

A hotel bar soap with a beautiful wrapper from Yellowstone Hotels and Lodges—it’s yellow and black with a realistic rendering of a menacing bear towering over a landscape. I mean, it’s probably not menacing, but don’t go to the park and put honey on your kid’s arm for a cute photo-op with a grizzly! The soap is Ivory—still reminiscent of my childhood. Don’t take it into one of the thermal pools to bathe—even though it’ll float—you might be cooked like a lobster! I have to admit that I grew up being confused about Yellowstone—thinking it was a fictional place—since we never visited there. I can’t be hard on my parents—we did visit Colorado. You’ve got to really like to drive to visit Yellowstone, as it’s as middle of BF Nowhere as anywhere in the country. Anyway, my confusion was because of Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park—which I likely thought was Jell-O-Stone—and possibly a real place. Adding to that confusion was the baseball player, Yogi Berra, who I knew to be a real person—even if he was larger than life (and considerably more funny than Yogi Bear). I never cared for Yogi Bear, the cartoon character, for some reason. Thinking about it now, I’m guessing it was because, to me, he didn’t seem remotely like a bear at all—he seemed like a particularly unpleasant man.

Soap Review No. 210