The Tarnish on the Sheen of the very Bible Belt

Originally Posted on April 25, 2005 Last Updated on December 12, 2006

I just heard this story on Texans trying to get the Dutch Oven declared official state cooking utensil.

You have to listen to the audio to really understand how serious this guy is about Dutch Ovens.

Is this what people think Americans are?

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st0nes 25 Apr 2005

hey isn’t a dutch oven when you pass gas under the covers and then through them over your partners head.

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olivia 25 Apr 2005

In South Africa they have been around since the settlers. We call them “potjies” (pronounced: poykey) and food made in them is called “potjiekos”. Mmmmm I LOVE potjiekos!!

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Cait 25 Apr 2005

Isn’t it amazing what some people get passionate about? Like collecting beer bottle caps. People seriously do that. Of course, the Dutch oven lovers are not the weirdest folks down here in Texas. Most of our legislators make the Dutch Oven Society look normal, although they haven’t yet tried to ban dildos like the legislature in Tennessee tried to. They are trying to pass a law now that confines marriage to a union between a man and a woman. Given the attitude of the Bible thumper majority in the state, I’m sure it will pass. Shit, it isn’t as if heteros have a good track record on marriage – what, a 50+% divorce rate. Let the gays give it a try. Maybe they could make a better job of it.

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ClickNathan 25 Apr 2005

Wow, Texas is really behind on the banning gay marriage thing then. You’d think they’d be way ahead of all the liberal states that’ve already done it.

But I for one thing divorce rocks. Good to get marriage over with while you’re young so you don’t make those silly mistakes when you’re too old to recover from it, I say.

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