FYI, I have been notified that the Official Tennessee Code Annotated has been modified with the following addition:

[carlmalamud@official.resource.org]

FYI, I have been notified that the Official Tennessee Code Annotated has been modified with the following addition:

Cast iron cookware is designated and adopted as the official frontier cookware of this state.

[petrillic@hachyderm.io]

@carlmalamud politicians delivering the real value

[springdiesel@spore.social]

@carlmalamud

The competition couldn't have been that fierce. What else have we got for frontier cookware? Clay pots? Pewter? Maybe Granny's bone china teapot made it across the plains?

Edit: mountains. Tennessee is this side of the plains.

[w6kme@mastodon.radio]

@carlmalamud This made me check...and yup, Lodge Manufacturing Company is Tennessee based.

[nikclayton@mastodon.social]

@carlmalamud /cc @loweringthebar as this seems very relevant to their ongoing efforts to track weird state things (e.g. https://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/05/official-state-crap-california.html)

[unlambda@hachyderm.io]

@W6KME @carlmalamud lol, that was my first instinct as well

[klausfiend@mstdn.ca]

@W6KME @carlmalamud In fairness, Lodge makes good cookware, but this feels a little bit like a "Titanic deck chair arranging" effort.

[cazabon@mindly.social]

@carlmalamud

Aw, I was rooting for my Li-Ion powered portable waffle iron.