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Wait a minute! How can this be offensive to Mormons? Mormons
aren't supposed to drink, so they would never go into a liquor store
and see the offensive bottle.<br>
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Dave<br>
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On 5/30/2012 5:50 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:
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<div><span>Courtesy of today's (May 30, 2012)
Spokesman-Review.</span><br>
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<div><span>Polygamy Porter still on shelves</span><br>
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<span>SALT LAKE CITY – Five Wives Vodka was named in bad
taste and won’t be stocked or special ordered at stores
operated by the state of Idaho, regulators said.</span><br>
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<span>The middle-shelf vodka is made by Ogden’s Own
Distillery in Utah, where the Mormon church is based. Its
label carries the name and an image of five women, an
apparent reference to polygamy, a practice abandoned by
the church more than a century ago.</span><br>
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<span>Idaho State Liquor Division administrator Jeff
Anderson said the brand is offensive to Mormons, who make
up more than a quarter of Idaho’s population.</span><br>
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<span>Regulators in Idaho notified Elite Spirits Distributor
that the brand’s concept is “offensive to a prominent
segment of our population and will not be carried,”
according to a letter sent Thursday.</span><br>
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<span>“The bottom line is, we represent everybody,” Anderson
added Tuesday. “It’s masterful marketing on their part.
But it doesn’t play here.”</span><br>
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<span>Anderson said state stores already make hundreds of
vodka brands available for sale and don’t have room for
another brand priced at around $20 a bottle.</span><br>
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<span>Ogden’s Own Distillery is trying to make the most of
the rejection with a media campaign and sale of “Free the
Five Wives” T-shirts.</span><br>
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<span>It says the snub is unfair because a Utah beer named
Polygamy Porter is available in Idaho.</span><br>
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<span>Anderson said Idaho doesn’t decide what beer brands
can be sold in grocery and convenience stores.</span><br>
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<span>“We’re a little dumbfounded by it all,” said Steve
Conlin, a partner and marketing chief for Ogden’s Own
Distillery. “The average person can look at our bottle and
they don’t find it offensive. It’s certainly not obscene,
which is what it would require for it to be banned.”</span><br>
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<span>Five Wives Vodka has been approved for sale in Utah, a
state dominated by members of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints.</span><br>
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<span>It’s also available in Wyoming, another state that
regulates liquor sales.</span><br>
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<span>Nobody in Utah is raising a fuss over the brand, said
Vickie Ashby, a spokeswoman for the Utah Department of
Alcoholic Beverage Control. Utah regulates all sales of
hard liquor, wine and heavy beer, making the products
available only at state-owned stores. Idaho and Wyoming
control liquor sales with a mix of state-owned and
privately operated stores.</span><br>
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<span>“We have a product that has sold nearly 1,000 cases in
six months in Utah,” Conlin said. “If the reaction is
because of a religious concern, we think they are
extremely misguided.”</span><br>
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<span>This image provided by Ogden’s Own Distillery shows a
bottle of Five Wives Vodka.</span><br>
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<span>“Free the Five Wives” T-shirts<br>
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<div><span>Available from Ogdens Own Store at:</span><br>
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href="http://www.ogdensownstore.com/product/freewives">http://www.ogdensownstore.com/product/freewives</a></span><br>
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<div><span></span>Now, if y'all will excuse me, I believe
there is a "Death By Chocolate" sundae in the kitchen with
my name on it.<br>
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<span>Seeya round town, Moscow.</span><br>
<span></span><br>
<span>Tom Hansen</span><br>
<span>Moscow, Idaho</span><br>
<span></span><br>
<span>"If not us, who?</span><br>
<span>If not now, when?"</span><br>
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<span>- Unknown</span><br>
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