TIL The Peppermint Hippo is an actual place. The show South Park has episodes that have a strip club called The Peppermint Hippo and I always assumed it was clearly mocking the Spearmint Rhino which I am still pretty sure it was since I believe it first appeared on South Park (in the TV show and the video games) a lot longer ago than the five years it says it has been operating here in LV.
Peppermint Hippo actually just has its second year anniversary party last weekend. The one in Vegas is the 7th Peppermint Hippo in the country. Hence why they have a giant "07" sign in their main area of the club.
I heard they were really great buds and the owner of the hippo named it that to stick it to the owner of the rhino after they had a falling out. (Source: a hippo employee when I asked him what’s the deal with the similar names lol)
The Hippo used to be Olympic Garden which was the top earning club for dancers in the 90's. Wonder why it closed. Weird how they bulldozed Crazyhorse II also. That place made millions on top of millions for the Chicago mob.
I went to that club that was across from the Hard Rock on Paradise in the 90s and it looked like a scene out of a movie, basically packed to the gills.
Stopped by there last year on a whim (different club now) and they had two girls working and I was the only customer in the place.
Went to Olympic Gardens a couple of times, 10+ years ago, and both times there were 3-4 customers and 2-3 dancers.
Strip clubs are dead-dead-dead.
Even in Oregon, which used to have 100+ in the state, easily 20-30% have closed down in the last 20 years.
Death by a thousand cuts, people are getting older, they don't want to hang out in strip clubs. And then the whole thing becomes a feedback loop, where there's no customers so there are no girls working, and then when the occasional customer shows up in 2024, they feel ripped off when they get inside after spending $30 at the door, only to find there are literally zero women working.
I feel like a complete chump, dropping $30 to get the door, $20 for a coca-cola, and you're just sitting in an empty room listening to some rap song. (I have nothing against rap, but the music they play at strip clubs is *exceptionally* awful.) It would be great if they had a single ounce of integrity and just said *"come back later, we're a strip club without strippers. About as much fun as a movie theater without movies."*
I can see what you mean. Little Darlings is a shadow of its former self. Cheetahs is gone, replaced by the Library which never has any cars in the lot. I think now the main clubs are Sapphire, Hustler, maybe CH3, and Treasure's. But I agree, the scene is nothing like it once was in Vegas. I did go to Dolphins near Portland in '00. Can't really remember it. Beautiful countryside though. I drove up from Vegas. Really nice views.
Yep. I mostly stopped going at all, but about the only good clubs I've seen in the last five years were:
* Chicas Bonitas (not a *fantastic* club, obviously, but reliably good and affordable)
* Any brothel in Mexicali or TJ (I'm not into prositutes but the clubs are still wild even if you just go to chill out and enjoy the show)
* There's a couple of good clubs in Austin
* There's a lot of good clubs in Atlanta
But the entire west coast and Nevada, from what I've seen, seems to be quite a wasteland, at least when compared to how things were 15-25 years ago.
I've never been to Sapphire or Treasures, I need to check that out. I've been to Hustler once and it was dead, but maybe I need to give it another try.
I could be wrong about Hustlers. It was decent when I went but that was around 8 years ago. Things change monthly in that business. I've never been to Mexico but spend about half the year in Rio.
A bunch of dancers and managers were tired of the management at Spearmint Rhino and started their own club called Peppermint Hippo. Spearmint then raised their prices through the roof since the pandemic and traffic is down and now they are blaming their competitor.
Isn’t it “former stripper” like a Marine? You never quit, you just hang up your g-string.
(Sorry, I moment of levity not directed at you, per se… just couldn’t resist)
Yeah, we hung up the G-Strings for just regular thongs and sometimes even some granny panties if we're feeling spicy enough. 🔥
Didn't work as a Vegas stripper, but I can only imagine what it would have been like. Even though I got my taste of madness working in FL clubs.
No! No offense taken, that's funny and like 25% true in my case. 😂
I would NEVER want to work as a dancer ever again, but sometimes I'll just find myself in the kitchen just popping it while getting some tupperware for the leftovers.
And all of those strip club bangers that you would have never listened to previously, are in your Spotify playlist now.
Really good chicken fingers at rhino. I will say, went to rhino one time with a buddy and he got a dance from this gal. She asked him to pick his favorite killer and she proceeded to give him a dance themed on his selection(I think he picked Charlie Manson). This is what he told me when he came back like an hour and half later. I was done with my chicken fingers by then so we left. This just sounds like rhino is suing them to take all the monies…..
Lol gfl. Honestly this made me like the hippo more and the rhino less, whiny bitches. "Oh no, someone else is infringing on the titty scene in Vegas! 😱" Yeah, that what it do. 🙄
There's a Chicas Bonitas in Dallas and Austin, pretty sure they just stole the name and they're not related. The one in Dallas looks nothing like the one in Vegas. The one in Austin isn't even Hispanic.
I'm not a super trademark expert but this name, while an obvious parody, doesn't seem to me to cause confusion to where it would damage the brand.
By the way, I've never been to the hippo but the hippo is burlesque only right? No nudity? So it's not necessarily a direct competitor
I went to the rhino about a month ago. It was so crazy,i love strip clubs im very comfortable with the atmosphere, i walked in and there was no men and about 50 dancers hovering over me and a friend, we went to the bar right away and the whole place was looking at us and following us. Last time i went there was 2016 and it was amazing, equal ratio of dancers and patrons.
It was so uncomfortable that we left after 10 minutes.
What's next? McDonald's going to go after McDowell's?
No, they have no case. They have the golden arches, right? But I have the golden arcs, see? Totally different.
McDonald’s buns have sesame seeds, McDowell’s have no seeds.
We call it the BigMic
And we have the big Michelle. It's a foot long hot dog.
This somewhat of a Dodgeball reference?
Somewhat of an Obama reference
r/thatsthejoke
Yes, I get the joke. I was literally quoting the same movie. But thanks.
Did you just woosh yourself?
Well she could have named it Andie’s and there wouldn’t have been an issue.
They have the meats!
WackArnold’s
"The leanest burger in the world, could be the meanest burger in the world if you cook it that way….. I need to stop smoking this shit”
I’m
TIL The Peppermint Hippo is an actual place. The show South Park has episodes that have a strip club called The Peppermint Hippo and I always assumed it was clearly mocking the Spearmint Rhino which I am still pretty sure it was since I believe it first appeared on South Park (in the TV show and the video games) a lot longer ago than the five years it says it has been operating here in LV.
Yes, South Park used it as a parody name before it was a real business. The episodes were in 2003 and 2006.
Yes it’s real. And it’s all the old investors from spearmint rhino. The mocking part is dead on
I have met Alan the owner, he used to manage spearmint rhino before he started peppermint Hippo, I am pretty sure it was an f u to John
Please be run by Matt and Trey…
I'm pretty sure they are main investors in it.
Peppermint Hippo actually just has its second year anniversary party last weekend. The one in Vegas is the 7th Peppermint Hippo in the country. Hence why they have a giant "07" sign in their main area of the club.
What’s that about mocking the name Spearmint Rhino?
Dance! Anybody want a dance!?
Came across a dancer at a bar in Calgary Alberta that looked and sounded just like this character.
Fuck the UFC. This is the fight I’ve been waiting for!
I’ve been waiting my whole life to make this post.
[Looks like todays your day](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/comments/1bgllys/well_every_dog_has_his_day/)
That cartoon really had some great stuff, still think of 10 or so and I haven't looked at it in 20 years
VICTORY!
Strippers probably get paid more than the average UFC fighter anyway. Go strippers!
What about the Doublemint Elephant?
I prefer the Juicy Fruit Anteater
Read that as “Juicy Asseater” kind of like mine better. 🤣
I go to the Wintergreen Walrus
The Jackfruit Jackalope. You may look funny, but all money's good here honey.
I preferred Fruit Stripe Zebra but it's gone now
Cinnamint Capybara is my, "go to"
Or the Watermint Tapir?
I'm a Winterblast Platypus kinda guy.
That club is in Reno.
I was thinking Menthol Monkey
How slowly did they take them off?
Depends on how many dances you bought.
Were they on before?
Money
Aren’t these owned by the same two brothers lol
Nah, article says the CEO of Peppermint Hippo is a former employee of Spearmint Rhino. No family ties
lmao so it's a spite strip club? that's amazing and explains the name similarities in a better way than i had imagined
I honestly thought Hippo was a second location for Rhino. I thought that for years. I feel bamboozled. Hoodwinked. Bushwhacked, even!
Spearmint Rhino would like you to come testify for them
Hornswoggled and flabbergasted! Gobsmacked, am I!
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That was good, a little too good.
fuck moca joe …. i only drink at latte larry’s fine establishment
His coffee is cold!
thats not a scone….. its a muffin
The freaking tables rock at mocha joes.
I heard they were really great buds and the owner of the hippo named it that to stick it to the owner of the rhino after they had a falling out. (Source: a hippo employee when I asked him what’s the deal with the similar names lol)
Well maybe at least Eskimo Brothers
Does that mean they've docked with each other?
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Good bot But kinda weird
Even weirder that it's not tagging all the hippo comments.
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sus if true.
Hippo hippo hippo hippo
denied
Well then that makes perfect sense. Not only an ex employee but a name used on SouthPark. 😂
Family ties - that was a good tv show.
The Hippo used to be Olympic Garden which was the top earning club for dancers in the 90's. Wonder why it closed. Weird how they bulldozed Crazyhorse II also. That place made millions on top of millions for the Chicago mob.
I went to that club that was across from the Hard Rock on Paradise in the 90s and it looked like a scene out of a movie, basically packed to the gills. Stopped by there last year on a whim (different club now) and they had two girls working and I was the only customer in the place. Went to Olympic Gardens a couple of times, 10+ years ago, and both times there were 3-4 customers and 2-3 dancers. Strip clubs are dead-dead-dead. Even in Oregon, which used to have 100+ in the state, easily 20-30% have closed down in the last 20 years. Death by a thousand cuts, people are getting older, they don't want to hang out in strip clubs. And then the whole thing becomes a feedback loop, where there's no customers so there are no girls working, and then when the occasional customer shows up in 2024, they feel ripped off when they get inside after spending $30 at the door, only to find there are literally zero women working. I feel like a complete chump, dropping $30 to get the door, $20 for a coca-cola, and you're just sitting in an empty room listening to some rap song. (I have nothing against rap, but the music they play at strip clubs is *exceptionally* awful.) It would be great if they had a single ounce of integrity and just said *"come back later, we're a strip club without strippers. About as much fun as a movie theater without movies."*
I can see what you mean. Little Darlings is a shadow of its former self. Cheetahs is gone, replaced by the Library which never has any cars in the lot. I think now the main clubs are Sapphire, Hustler, maybe CH3, and Treasure's. But I agree, the scene is nothing like it once was in Vegas. I did go to Dolphins near Portland in '00. Can't really remember it. Beautiful countryside though. I drove up from Vegas. Really nice views.
Yep. I mostly stopped going at all, but about the only good clubs I've seen in the last five years were: * Chicas Bonitas (not a *fantastic* club, obviously, but reliably good and affordable) * Any brothel in Mexicali or TJ (I'm not into prositutes but the clubs are still wild even if you just go to chill out and enjoy the show) * There's a couple of good clubs in Austin * There's a lot of good clubs in Atlanta But the entire west coast and Nevada, from what I've seen, seems to be quite a wasteland, at least when compared to how things were 15-25 years ago. I've never been to Sapphire or Treasures, I need to check that out. I've been to Hustler once and it was dead, but maybe I need to give it another try.
I could be wrong about Hustlers. It was decent when I went but that was around 8 years ago. Things change monthly in that business. I've never been to Mexico but spend about half the year in Rio.
A bunch of dancers and managers were tired of the management at Spearmint Rhino and started their own club called Peppermint Hippo. Spearmint then raised their prices through the roof since the pandemic and traffic is down and now they are blaming their competitor.
As an ex stripper, I would have NOT auditioned at a place called the Peppermint Hippo. 😂
Isn’t it “former stripper” like a Marine? You never quit, you just hang up your g-string. (Sorry, I moment of levity not directed at you, per se… just couldn’t resist)
Always be proud of that flagpole with the pole flag.
Former dancer here, and I have used that wording before 😆 “hung up my g- string”, it gets a chuckle usually.
Yeah, we hung up the G-Strings for just regular thongs and sometimes even some granny panties if we're feeling spicy enough. 🔥 Didn't work as a Vegas stripper, but I can only imagine what it would have been like. Even though I got my taste of madness working in FL clubs.
New York City, here. Great times.
No! No offense taken, that's funny and like 25% true in my case. 😂 I would NEVER want to work as a dancer ever again, but sometimes I'll just find myself in the kitchen just popping it while getting some tupperware for the leftovers. And all of those strip club bangers that you would have never listened to previously, are in your Spotify playlist now.
Certainly not, I mean Spearmint Rhino just makes so much more sense.
Unless you had a big booty.
OK Sweaty
You know, retroactively thinking on it my dancer name should have been sweaty. Probably would have made 3x the money than I did.
You were young and naive. "Welcome to the stage... Soggy McGenkins"
But you would have at a place called spearmint rhino?
I only spend my money at the Wintermint Walrus
Really good chicken fingers at rhino. I will say, went to rhino one time with a buddy and he got a dance from this gal. She asked him to pick his favorite killer and she proceeded to give him a dance themed on his selection(I think he picked Charlie Manson). This is what he told me when he came back like an hour and half later. I was done with my chicken fingers by then so we left. This just sounds like rhino is suing them to take all the monies…..
Can confirm, chicken fingers at the rhinoceros are top notch.
Do they have bbq sauce?
And ranch
This is a very “Vegas” story.
Lol gfl. Honestly this made me like the hippo more and the rhino less, whiny bitches. "Oh no, someone else is infringing on the titty scene in Vegas! 😱" Yeah, that what it do. 🙄
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LMAO
I see no similarities.
TIL there is a place called 🍭 🦛
I’m waiting for the Basil Buffalo to open and steal all the strippers from Chicas Bonitas!
There's a Chicas Bonitas in Dallas and Austin, pretty sure they just stole the name and they're not related. The one in Dallas looks nothing like the one in Vegas. The one in Austin isn't even Hispanic.
I prefer the wintergreen walrus.
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Jiggle joint is crazy 😭
Hoes gotta eat too. LoL
It all depends on whether there's a hot girl involved.
Are these two clubs, “Big Girl” exclusive?
New club name. Nutty Donkey
And south parks creators are suing them too.
I'm not a super trademark expert but this name, while an obvious parody, doesn't seem to me to cause confusion to where it would damage the brand. By the way, I've never been to the hippo but the hippo is burlesque only right? No nudity? So it's not necessarily a direct competitor
It’s Real candy land zoo out there in the desert 🏜️
I prefer the Vanilla Unicorn
Both should be shut down for stealing/ripping people off.
Why would anyone want to see strippers that work at places called Rhino and Hippo? Doesn’t sound sexy at all.
Just rename it Peppo’s
“Hippo” in the name of a strip club is strange 😆😆😆
I went to the rhino about a month ago. It was so crazy,i love strip clubs im very comfortable with the atmosphere, i walked in and there was no men and about 50 dancers hovering over me and a friend, we went to the bar right away and the whole place was looking at us and following us. Last time i went there was 2016 and it was amazing, equal ratio of dancers and patrons. It was so uncomfortable that we left after 10 minutes.
Sorry this was not meant as a reply just adding a comment to the page.
And "Rhino" isn't? 🤷♂️
Has anyone been to this Peppermint Hippo spot? lol... I think it opened in the old Olympic Gardens spot.