The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145418 Message #3364138
Posted By: Rapparee
16-Jun-12 - 09:13 AM
Thread Name: From the horse's mouth, as it were.
Subject: RE: From the horse's mouth, as it were.
Down in Ogden, UT there is a business called "Ogden's Own Distillery." Ogden, as you may know, is a far suburb of Salt Lake City and is heavily Mormon.
This distillery recently started marketing "Five Wives Vodka." It's sold in the Utah state liquor stores.
Idaho's liquor commission decided NOT to sell it in Idaho's state stores because "It offends Idaho's community of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints because is references polygamy, which is no longer practiced."
Weeeeeeell -- they decided you could special order it after Ogden's Own threatened a lawsuit citing the example of Polygamy Porter ("Bring Some Home For the Wives!") which is brewed in SLC and sold in Idaho supermarkets. "Hold on!" said Ogden's Own, "special orders are a nuisance and people won't do it -- stock it!"
And so, very soon you'll be able to go into an Idaho liquor store and buy a bottle.
P.S.: The Mormons I know think the whole this is silly and ridiculous.