On May 16, 7:10*pm, bulka > wrote:
> 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?


Why would the kitchen term "Dutch oven" be an insult, and to Germans
of all people? Are you confusing these cooking pots with concentration
camp crematorium ovens?