# Turd Specimens on Dutch Porcelain

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turd-specimens-on-dutch-porcelain/52978>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 3, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turd-specimens-on-dutch-porcelain/52978 "2001-02-03T05:03:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turd-specimens-on-dutch-porcelain/52978/1 "2001-02-03T05:03:51Z")

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The floating poop thread has prompted a memory going back 26 years when I spent some time in The Netherlands. I became acquainted with several toilet bowls cast in such a manner that the precipitated scats would enevitably land on a “dry” ledge. This I was told was for the purpose of inspection which was supposed to be a daily routine. Subsequent removal required positioning the surge tank in a much higher elevation thereby increasing the pressure of the water “jet” over the porcelain surface.

I have never seen this design in North America.\*\* Is this design still being manufactured in Holland, or is it now obsolete?\*\* I actually thought the system was more efficient and less wasteful of water due to the higher pressure.

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**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turd-specimens-on-dutch-porcelain/52978/2 "2001-02-03T09:11:45Z")

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Certainly still prevalent in Germany- a certain national obsession with the bowels there.

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**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turd-specimens-on-dutch-porcelain/52978/3 "2001-02-03T18:02:45Z")

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Also sounds like every single toliet I saw in my travels thru Russia. I was told the design was originally used for collecting the stool to be used in the garden as fertilizer.

_shrug_

Osip

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**Author:** ![scratch1300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turd-specimens-on-dutch-porcelain/52978/4 "2001-02-03T18:13:30Z")

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Just wanna say I love the thread title. Sounds like a front-cover blurb on _Martha Stewart’s Living_.