On May 16, 9:17*pm, "piedmont" > wrote:
> "Nomen Nescio" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> > Why call a dutch oven a dutch oven? *I'm sure that many other
> > cultures/nations have been using that idea ever since iron was
> > cast.
>
I thought it was an ethnic slur - like Dutch Treat or Dutch Courage,
from an antagonism we've forgotten about except as language
artifacts. Maybe directed at Germans?

Bulka