So, just as some of you may have, i heard the news yesterday that Idaho’s liquor stores won’t be stocking Five Wives Vodka, made by Ogden’s Own Distillery, because it is (quoting from the newspaper article about it here) “offensive to Mormons who make up over a quarter of Idaho’s population”. And this isn’t just the reporter editorializing—the letter sent from Idaho’s regulatory commission actually used the word “offensive”.
And you know, i think they’re entirely right! You can’t have state-controlled liquor stores carrying products that are offensive to segments of the population that…aren’t remotely likely…to walk into…any of those stores…
Oh, wait.
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Wait... what? It's "offensive" to a whopping 25% of the population (and I'd suspect it's completely *not* offensive to the majority of that 25%) so they won't stock them at all? Ummm... okay.
And, FTR, I love the name of that Vodka. But then I guess removing it makes as much sense as Alabama banning Dirty Bastard Beer for having a profane name (however, Fat Bastard Beer is still available in the state, proving that it is better to be fat than dirty, at least if you are a bastard).
And it's no longer banned... http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/54257007-68/vodka-idaho-state-wives.html.csp
That didn't take long.
you never know
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