Please don't anybody tell our Leftie legislators. Or teachers

[WalOne]

They might plagiarise the idea ...

This is from Kevin Underhill's "Lowering the Bar", a weekly tongue in cheek resume of weird and wonderful things legal in the USA, that eminent bastion of all things weird and wonderful 

Officially,┬áthe Official State Crap project┬áhas only reached Indiana, which would make Iowa next on the list. But there is┬áprecedent┬áfor taking a state out of order if relevant legislative action is (a) imminent (b) stupid © both, and at least one of those conditions seems to be met here.

On January 23, New Mexico legislator William P. Soules introduced┬áSenate Bill 188, which if passed would make that state the first in the nation, apparently, and surprisingly, to have an official state aroma. While there was at least some debate as to which of the stateÔÇÖs many aromas should be so honored, the consensus was to accept the sponsorÔÇÖs suggestion that New Mexico name ÔÇ£the aroma of green chile roasting in the fallÔÇØ as its official smell.

As is so often the case, here grade-school children are the (a) culprits (b) heroes © scapegoats responsible for proposing yet another state symbol, according to the┬á[i]Albuquerque Journal[/i]. But when I read that a group of fifth-graders had been allowed to suggest an official aroma, and that the aroma they came up with was chile-roasting, I strongly suspected adult (a) supervision (b) coercion © inception was involved, and I was right.

This is┬ásaid to have come about┬áwhile Soules (a retired teacher) was visiting the class at Monte Vista Elementary. In a valiant effort to get them interested in what a legislature does, Soules asked them if they could identify the stateÔÇÖs official bird. Some poindexter knew that it was the┬ároadrunner, and the discussion of official things continued.

Somehow ÔÇ£the smell of roasting chileÔÇØ came up, and Soules then ÔÇ£implored the class: ÔÇÿLetÔÇÖs see about putting the smell of chile roasting as our official aroma for the state of New Mexico. Would you all help me?'ÔÇØ Yes, they would.
At a hearing on the bill, some of the fifth-graders testified in favor of the bill (via an online platform). ÔÇ£Is there anyone in the room who does not know what chile roasting smells like?ÔÇØ one student asked. Nobody who mattered didnÔÇÖt, at least, and the committee voted 5-0 to recommend passing the bill. If it is adopted by the legislature and signed into law, it┬áwould take effect on June 16, 2023, just in time for the fall harvest and roasting of chiles, hopefully to be followed by a green-chile-aroma-inspired increase in tourism.

The┬á[i]Journal┬á[/i]reported that some state residents were semi-riled by Steven ColbertÔÇÖs joke last week that he had assumed New MexicoÔÇÖs official aroma would be the smell of ÔÇ£an abandoned RV that a bobcat is living in,ÔÇØ but it doesnÔÇÖt look like they were really all that upset.

I invite nominations for NZild contenders, and an appropriate prize for the most unique but appropriate entry.

I envisage the first prize for the contest may be a can of au d'Roturua, and the second prize two cans.  The winner/s would need to travel to Rotorua at their expense to fill the empty cans that may or may not be at the discretion of the organisers to be provided.