Commentary: Wanna Be a Drought-buster? Heed the Lessons of the Slop Jar.
From the Los Angeles Times, in a commentary by Dinah Hatton:
“If you’re a city person, you might only have read of chamber pots, an inconvenient though useful contraption from an earlier time. In the part of Texas where I grew up, the term ‘chamber pot’ was a tad too genteel. We called these essentials ’slop jars’ or just ‘the pot.’ …
“My family’s lack of an indoor toilet was not because of finances.”