Aw, poop! Fair uses imported cowpies

The Des Moines Register ^ | 8-14-2002 | JERRY PERKINS

[Cagey]

Here's a stinker: The cow chips thrown at the Iowa State Fair come from Oklahoma.

It's not that Iowa's cow chips aren't good enough, fair officials say. It's just that Oklahoma cornered the cow-chip market years ago.

In 1979, back when Iowa's dung discus-throwing contest began, the Oklahoma panhandle was the only place that sold the chips, said Kathie Swift, the fair's marketing director.

[Cagey]

Breaking News.....sort of.

[SouthernFreebird]

The workshop employs seven developmentally disabled people, who pick up the chips in pastures where the cattle have, well, dropped them,

Bwahahhahaha .....thats terrible, I can't believe they printed that.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

It's just that Oklahoma cornered the cow-chip market years ago

Ok, here it comes, you knew I would do it, the prerequisite "I always knew Oklahoma was full of shit" comment....... ;^) LOL

[mvpel]

Breaking... wind?

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

And I thought MY job stunk!

[E Rocc]

Why not? Washington DC used feces it imported from Arkansas for eight years.

-Eric