The problem with gobs of gooey post-Thanksgiving grease is that once they enter drainpipes, they don’t stay gooey for long.

That grease can set up in sink drains and sewer pipes, turning the day after Thanksgiving into what plumbers around Wyoming and the nation call “Brown Friday.”

“It’s just that everybody thinks that everything can go down the drain,” independent plumber Shawn Haight of Gillette told Cowboy State Daily.

But it can’t.

He’s even seen the oily, runny remains of a Turkey Day feast end up in a home’s laundry drainage lines, creating a backwash of truly hideous byproduct.

“Let’s just say that lint and grease don’t mix very well,” he said.

Also, people really shouldn’t overestimate the capacity of their garbage disposals, Cory Kopp told Cowboy State Daily. He’s a master

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