On May 17, 12:29*am, "Giusi" > wrote:
> "Ostap Bender" > ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:f282b494-2df2-4367-
>
> 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?
>
> You must be culturally adrift. *Pennsylvania Dutch have affected American
> English for 2 centuries, and they are German = deutsch.

I am aware of the similarity between the words Dutch and Deutsch. That
was not my point. My point is that Dutch ovens are nothing to be
ashamed of, and thus don't seem to be an insult.

BTW, according to Alton Brown's "research" on Good Eats, the origin of
the word "Dutch ovens" is either due to the fact that Abraham Darby
produced cast iron using Dutch techniques or (more likely) because in
the early period, most of them were sold by the Dutch East India
Company.