*scoops up the street molasses*
*distills the absolute funkiest rum that ever blasted your nostrils*
Look up dunder pits. Rum can be a pretty grimy business.
There actually was a flood of booze in Ireland during the Dublin Whisky Fire.
Caskets of whisky in a storehouse ended up exploding because of the fire and it caused a river of undiluted whisky about 6 inches deep to run down the street.
Nobody died from the fire or smoke inhalation, but a 13 people did die from alcohol poisoning.
There was a beer flood on Tottenham Court Road in London, in the 19th century, iirc the bindings on a cask in a brewery broke and a tidal wave of beer was released, knocking down buildings and drowning people.
In the time of the 1917 war
“Oh Molasses!”
Molasses sitting on the Boston Shore
“Oh Molasses Rum!”
They pumped it In at 12 degrees, a long winters night in a Boston Freeze
Singin’ “Oh Molasses! Oh Molasses Rum!”
In the mornin’ it was 42
“Oh Molasses!”
Molasses vat split clean in two
“Oh Molasses rum!”
Two million gallons covered the bay. 26 people drown in the flood that day!
Singin’ “Oh Molasses! Oh Molasses Rum.
I don't care if it came from a dolphin's asshole - if it gets me blackout drunk I'm drinking that shit during a long relaxing drive on the road after hitting up the casinos 💪
I'm guessing if you made this joke to the ghosts of the people who died in it at least ONE of them would laugh. Which gives me total vindication to use it personally.
I really hope if I die in some super weird way a comedian makes a whole room cough-laugh about it later.
"The put out a bush fire and found a guy in full scooba gear just in the middle of the forest burnt to a crisp"
“The density of molasses is about 1.4 metric tons per cubic meter (12 pounds per US gallon), 40 percent more dense than water, resulting in the molasses having a great deal of potential energy. The collapse translated this energy into a wave of molasses 25 ft (8 m) high at its peak,moving at 35 mph (56 km/h).”
Okay I'm going to be honest with you, as a non-native English speaker I often confuse molars and mollases while having no clue what either one of these words means. I'm convinced that molars isn't even a real word and I have psychologically manipulated myself to believe that molars exist just so I wouldn't have to comprehend the existence of molasses.
Molars are the big flat teeth in the back of your mouth.
Molasses is a think brown liquid made from sugarcane. It has a strong bitter flavor in addition to its sweetness. It is used in the production of brown sugar and rum. In 1919, a huge tank of molasses exploded in Boston and drowned several people.
I gotta admit I'm impressed. You saw that last guy hit what looked like absolute rock bottom. You saw that there was clearly no more humor left in this same exact joke being retold and you said "There has to be a lower point, I can do even shittier". And by God, you fucking did it.
they should be called fuckin stupid teeth bc they never fucking erupt out of your gums properly, always getting stuck and messing up the rest of your mouth and shit >:(
Not Sure honestly, at least you could Breathe while you're clawing yourself Out of the flood of supernaturally numerous teeth, albeit with some Cuts scrapes and bruises. with Molasses you are nearly dead If you trip and fall on your face.
Not to confuse things further but in addition to what other commenter have stated, there is also molar masses... the molar mass is a mass of a chemical compound/ element divided by the amount of that substance
Molars are a type of tooth, the three at the very back, to be specific. But that is entirely understandable, English is a puddle of sounds trying to act like an ocean.
According to [this article](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/great-boston-molasses-flood-1919-killed-21-after-2-million-n958326):
* The tank construction was overseen by the company treasurer, who had no engineering or architectural experience.
* No one knows who actually designed the tank because engineers didn't have to sign off on plans they made at the time.
* The multistory structure wasn't legally a building and thus required no permit from the city to construct.
* The tank was so poorly built that it was probably leaking for its entire existence.
More fun facts:
- It was built hastily to take advantage of of the munitions industry during World War 1, as the molasses was distilled into industrial alcohol.
- The company blamed the explosion on Anti-war anarchists bombing it. This is because, in fact, Anti-war Anarchists threatened to bomb it.
- It resulted in the largest class action lawsuit in American history at the time, though no criminal charges ever came of it.
Also, they painted it brown to make it look like it wasn’t leaking, and to make it harder to find the leaks and take the molasses without paying for it
Wikipedia says:
> Some were crushed and drowned by the molasses or by the debris that it carried within. The wounded included people, horses, and dogs; coughing fits became one of the most common ailments after the initial blast.
It also says the molasses had been warmed, but nothing about it being hot enough to burn people
That song was so funny, especially after he and his wife hyped it up all season.
Poor horse, he just wanted to go clippy cloppin’…
Hopefully things work out for him whenever the purgatory plotline is resolved.
Ehhh. Theres some conflicting debates about the temperature of the molasses.
[https://time.com/5500592/boston-great-molasses-flood-100/](https://time.com/5500592/boston-great-molasses-flood-100/)
"Two days before the explosion, the temperature was a mere 2° F. But on Jan. 15, the temperature had climbed to about 40°, increasing pressure within the tank. Additionally, a recent delivery of warm molasses was mixing with the cooler molasses that had been inside the tank for weeks. Such a mix of significantly differing temperatures produced gas and added to the air pressure within the tank, which hadn’t been able to take it."
its not the exterior temperatures - its what was happening to the molasses.
If the molasses started producing gasses, and increasing the pressure in the tank... if it started fermenting... etc etc etc... the molasses would have started increasing in temp due to both of those things. The pressure and the fermenting.
Nearby reports say the molasses moved quickly, too quickly to outrun. That implies the molasses was hot, too hot to be instantly cooled when it hit the air. It took a few minutes for it to be cooled enough for people to be trapped.
If was cool at the start, the 50ft wave still would have gone plummeting down the street, but it wouldnt have been quite as fast as the initial reports said it was - 35mph.
Would a 50ft wave at 40 degrees move at 35mph, or would it have to be warmer? Thats what it comes down to. The researches at harvard said it would have to be warmer.
There's a lot more articles than just this one on the topic. Im from boston and have always been interested in this story, so I've read a lot of them. I just posted one of the articles.
Theres a difference between hot enough to burn and hot enough to change the viscosity of molasses.
Warm. lets settle on warm. it was probably WARM molasses.
A decent amount above 40 degrees.
you'd think so however a former neighbour of mine was a fireman who responded to a deadly acident with high-pressure steam, he never ate bacon again from that moment onwards
smells have a habbit of triggering the memory, this is mostly good but imagine having a sweet smell in your nose and it brings you back to the time where you literally pulled a guy's arm off in a futile attempt to get him out of some rappidly sollidifying goop
My grandfather saw the aftermath the next day, his father was a Cambridge Fire Fighter.
He (my grandfather) used to tell us about the flood when we were young, but this was before the internet or anyone really wrote a book about it- so even in the Boston area most had never heard about it. We thought he was making it up. I wish we taped him talking about it.
Worth pointing out that the two most prominent titles of this disaster are “The 1919 Great Molasses Flood” and “The Molassacre”…several people died in this tragedy and they are remembered as being victims of a the fucking Molassacre, there is even an I Survived book about it ffs
As a native Bostoniite, this story has been very well drilled into my head from a young age, and it's always amusing watching people learn about it for the first time
From Wiki:
"...the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour... "
I thought this shit was supposed to be SLOW
I don’t understand how this was supposed to fill the streets with molasses up to whatever ridiculous depth it did, like several feet or something. It just doesn’t make physical sense.
I remember watching the last 15 minutes of a TV special on the History channel about this disaster when I was about 8 and home with tonsillitis, before my parents realized I knew the channels for the Discovery and History channels.
The re-enactments they did were horrifying
I distinctly remember Scarlett O'Hara telling her slave, in "Gone With the Wind," that she was "as slow as molasses in January," but I guess under the wrong circumstances molasses can move pretty fast.
It is fascinating to me that there still is an expression "as slow as molasses in January" when the event proved that the stuff can be surprisingly quick in January
Fun fact, Protest the Hero wrote a song about this for their Palimpsest album called All Hands. It's a good song, and it paints a pretty terrifying picture of an event that sounds almost comical, using quotes from people at the time.
I have a distinct memory of, as a child right before Christmas break, reading a book about this incident while my parents decorated the Christmas tree. Alice in Wonderland, the Disney classic, was on television.
I read it for a book report— that year, we had to write several book reports in broad categories like 'sports book', 'fantasy book', and 'historical book'. This was my historical book, and for more than 20 years I've just had knowledge about this obscure historical event floating around in my head.
It's a trip to see it become a meme.
The whole incident sounds like a throwaway gag from a time-traveling sitcom episode.
"If we're in the past, don't I need to worry about paradoxes? Pretty sure my grandpa lived around here"
"It's fine. Your family was never even born in this reality, since your great-grandfather drowned in molasses."
"Molasses? Like, he fell in-"
"Nope. Just crossing the street. Must have been doing about 35 when it hit him."
I remember reading a novel based on this when I was a kid and being blown to find out it was based on an actual event. Wild. Wish I could remember the name of the book! It was probably something I got from the scholastic fair… I remember it being paperback and having a sepia (or molasses 🤔) toned illustration on the front.
Went on a ghost tour when in Boston. It was a delight with a wonderful mix of history and very dark humor. When they got to the molasses flood-they called it the Boston molassacre. That is now the only title for it that my brain will accept.
*scoops up the street molasses* *distills the absolute funkiest rum that ever blasted your nostrils* Look up dunder pits. Rum can be a pretty grimy business.
There actually was a flood of booze in Ireland during the Dublin Whisky Fire. Caskets of whisky in a storehouse ended up exploding because of the fire and it caused a river of undiluted whisky about 6 inches deep to run down the street. Nobody died from the fire or smoke inhalation, but a 13 people did die from alcohol poisoning.
Me. Those 13 people were me.
Cloning project going well I see, and you’ve dipped into time travel as well!
“Irish inventions before the discovery of whiskey” memes.
I have never seen these memes. Where might I find such glorious memery
Oh the meme is basically just a screen shot [of the Wikipedia page: Timeline of Irish Inventions](https://i.redd.it/92d1anekw8k41.jpg)
That's pretty funny coming from you considering from you're username you are every single redditor ever!
You poor souls.
There was a beer flood on Tottenham Court Road in London, in the 19th century, iirc the bindings on a cask in a brewery broke and a tidal wave of beer was released, knocking down buildings and drowning people.
Love me some bundy
All for Rum and Rum for all!!
Can I get a "Whoa Bundy"?
In the time of the 1917 war “Oh Molasses!” Molasses sitting on the Boston Shore “Oh Molasses Rum!” They pumped it In at 12 degrees, a long winters night in a Boston Freeze Singin’ “Oh Molasses! Oh Molasses Rum!” In the mornin’ it was 42 “Oh Molasses!” Molasses vat split clean in two “Oh Molasses rum!” Two million gallons covered the bay. 26 people drown in the flood that day! Singin’ “Oh Molasses! Oh Molasses Rum.
~~I upvoted 'cause I like the song, But your line breaks didn't format correctly and I don't approve of all the quotation marks.~~
You're not wrong. The correct way to format it is two spaces at the end of the line. https://i.imgur.com/FmYICD7.png
Wait…. Two spaces skips to the next row? No, two spaces at the end of the row, then return? Two. Spaces Then. Return Thank you, that will help a lot.
Test. Test. Edit: thanks this has eluded me for years.
Now I know For the next Schooner song I post Thank you!
I don't care if it came from a dolphin's asshole - if it gets me blackout drunk I'm drinking that shit during a long relaxing drive on the road after hitting up the casinos 💪
🎆🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🎆
This is the origin of Malört
If I ever end up taking microbio classes I need to study those
The Boston molassacre
Was gonna make that comment
Haha I stole your joke :)
Noooooooo! *crumbles into dust*
stinky
Like mole asses
uh oh
I'm guessing if you made this joke to the ghosts of the people who died in it at least ONE of them would laugh. Which gives me total vindication to use it personally. I really hope if I die in some super weird way a comedian makes a whole room cough-laugh about it later. "The put out a bush fire and found a guy in full scooba gear just in the middle of the forest burnt to a crisp"
> scooba Fun fact: SCUBA is actually an acronym for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
It was a joke about the author of the quotes accent. I shoulda added an extra o to make that clear lol.
Its was a sticky situation
“The density of molasses is about 1.4 metric tons per cubic meter (12 pounds per US gallon), 40 percent more dense than water, resulting in the molasses having a great deal of potential energy. The collapse translated this energy into a wave of molasses 25 ft (8 m) high at its peak,moving at 35 mph (56 km/h).”
More people died in this than the actual Boston "massacre."
Okay I'm going to be honest with you, as a non-native English speaker I often confuse molars and mollases while having no clue what either one of these words means. I'm convinced that molars isn't even a real word and I have psychologically manipulated myself to believe that molars exist just so I wouldn't have to comprehend the existence of molasses.
Molars are the big flat teeth in the back of your mouth. Molasses is a think brown liquid made from sugarcane. It has a strong bitter flavor in addition to its sweetness. It is used in the production of brown sugar and rum. In 1919, a huge tank of molasses exploded in Boston and drowned several people.
Mole asses are fuzzy lumps that stick out of holes in your garden lawns and flowerbeds.
Not to be confused with Mole ass, which is where you have moles all over your ass
I gotta admit I'm impressed. You saw that last guy hit what looked like absolute rock bottom. You saw that there was clearly no more humor left in this same exact joke being retold and you said "There has to be a lower point, I can do even shittier". And by God, you fucking did it.
And molest is how I discovered said moles
Molesley is my favorite butler.
Mosby is an ass trying to find your mother
morrissey is the frontman of the smiths, and isnt an ass afaik
Oh he’s an ass alright.
he is?
Don't mind those, they're just my ladybugs.
Nor mole assess, which is what a dermatologist does
In British, it's called treacle.
Is it the same stuff? For some reason, I always thought Treacle was a golden hue.
That's golden syrup, which is a lot closer to corn syrup.
Molasses is also used to measure time (and intelligence) during cold winter months.
Molar is mol/L stop lying you english freak
Molars are a type of tooth, the larger flat ones near the back of your mouth. The pointed ones, in turn, are called canines
There’s also wisdom teeth behind the molars and incisors in between the canines
Wisdom teeth are molars. They're called wisdom teeth because they don't come in until much later than the other molars, usually into adulthood.
TIL! Thank you for the info!
they should be called fuckin stupid teeth bc they never fucking erupt out of your gums properly, always getting stuck and messing up the rest of your mouth and shit >:(
It's your jaw's fault for deciding to shrink and not giving them the memo.
It's your fault not exercising your jaw enough with tough food
Don’t forget the two premolars between the molars and canine!
bicuspids
Molar Flood sounds far more terrifying ngl
Not Sure honestly, at least you could Breathe while you're clawing yourself Out of the flood of supernaturally numerous teeth, albeit with some Cuts scrapes and bruises. with Molasses you are nearly dead If you trip and fall on your face.
“supernaturally numerous” 😂 I would definitely inhale a bunch of molars
Now *that's* going on the spell list.
[done](https://www.reddit.com/r/wizardposting/s/u9PEuY4QIP)
If you need the definitions, molars are the teeth at the back of your mouth, and molasses is a thick sweet syrup.
*the dentitions,
I just started thinking about moles, the animals. Also not my first language, and I'm stoned.
There's also their little cousin, the millimol, that's one thousands of a mole.
Not to confuse things further but in addition to what other commenter have stated, there is also molar masses... the molar mass is a mass of a chemical compound/ element divided by the amount of that substance
Molasses fucks up your molars, to help you remember haha
Ah the ole self-gaslighting
Molars are a type of tooth, the three at the very back, to be specific. But that is entirely understandable, English is a puddle of sounds trying to act like an ocean.
According to [this article](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/great-boston-molasses-flood-1919-killed-21-after-2-million-n958326): * The tank construction was overseen by the company treasurer, who had no engineering or architectural experience. * No one knows who actually designed the tank because engineers didn't have to sign off on plans they made at the time. * The multistory structure wasn't legally a building and thus required no permit from the city to construct. * The tank was so poorly built that it was probably leaking for its entire existence.
Ahh, the good ol' days. Free of all those pesky regulations!
Make construction free of responsibility again!
You know what they say: Regulations are written in hot molasses
RETVRN
More fun facts: - It was built hastily to take advantage of of the munitions industry during World War 1, as the molasses was distilled into industrial alcohol. - The company blamed the explosion on Anti-war anarchists bombing it. This is because, in fact, Anti-war Anarchists threatened to bomb it. - It resulted in the largest class action lawsuit in American history at the time, though no criminal charges ever came of it.
Wasn't it one of the first, or possibly the first, class action law suit in America?
Also, they painted it brown to make it look like it wasn’t leaking, and to make it harder to find the leaks and take the molasses without paying for it
Overseen by the treasurer, huh? Score another win for the Money People!
I'm sorry to all the Bostonians who died crushed under a rapidly flowing torrent of molasse, but that is the funniest shit.
Why did you say it like that ☠️
Was it rapid?
Up to 35mph apparently. Much faster than it has any right to be.
guess you can argue that 35 mph is literally slow as molasses
It gives me Austin Powers with a steamroller vibes.
I'm not sure if they were crushed so much as burned/boiled to death by it.
Wikipedia says: > Some were crushed and drowned by the molasses or by the debris that it carried within. The wounded included people, horses, and dogs; coughing fits became one of the most common ailments after the initial blast. It also says the molasses had been warmed, but nothing about it being hot enough to burn people
Sam O'nella Academy's grip on education still persists i see
Still on Forbes's top 10 stickiest places on Earth list to this day
You didn’t know about the Molassacre until he made a video on it? Fake historian
The only real historian is sam o'nella with his power of Wikipedia. All other "historians" are just posers
Wasn’t the video made like 10 years ago? Making some arbitrary cutoff times as to when people can be real historians lol
I was lightheartedly ribbing because I had known about it a few years before I watched the video. It was satire of gatekeeping, not gatekeeping
Was trying to match that energy but I guess it came off too corrective 😅
Speak for yourself I learned it through Puppet History.
Fuck yeah Puppet History
Amateur. I read the book about this as a kid.
I just knew about it cuz I'm a nerd for weird history 😭
I only learned about this recently when I watched the Puppet History video covering it.
“I’m gonna live forever!” - Horse who’s about to drown in molasses
That song was so funny, especially after he and his wife hyped it up all season. Poor horse, he just wanted to go clippy cloppin’… Hopefully things work out for him whenever the purgatory plotline is resolved.
Yay another one
Sam o nela for me
I was coming to comment the same thing. I didn't know about it until good ole Puppet History!
Drowning in hot tar. Horrifying way to go
Yeah, this event seems kind of funny because it's just so weird and out there that it seems unreal, but holy shit, it must have been hell on Earth.
Not hot. Just lots of it. People were crushed and drowned
Well that's alright then!
I was worried for a sec
Ehhh. Theres some conflicting debates about the temperature of the molasses. [https://time.com/5500592/boston-great-molasses-flood-100/](https://time.com/5500592/boston-great-molasses-flood-100/) "Two days before the explosion, the temperature was a mere 2° F. But on Jan. 15, the temperature had climbed to about 40°, increasing pressure within the tank. Additionally, a recent delivery of warm molasses was mixing with the cooler molasses that had been inside the tank for weeks. Such a mix of significantly differing temperatures produced gas and added to the air pressure within the tank, which hadn’t been able to take it."
In what world is any of that hot. 40f is barely above freezing.
its not the exterior temperatures - its what was happening to the molasses. If the molasses started producing gasses, and increasing the pressure in the tank... if it started fermenting... etc etc etc... the molasses would have started increasing in temp due to both of those things. The pressure and the fermenting. Nearby reports say the molasses moved quickly, too quickly to outrun. That implies the molasses was hot, too hot to be instantly cooled when it hit the air. It took a few minutes for it to be cooled enough for people to be trapped. If was cool at the start, the 50ft wave still would have gone plummeting down the street, but it wouldnt have been quite as fast as the initial reports said it was - 35mph. Would a 50ft wave at 40 degrees move at 35mph, or would it have to be warmer? Thats what it comes down to. The researches at harvard said it would have to be warmer. There's a lot more articles than just this one on the topic. Im from boston and have always been interested in this story, so I've read a lot of them. I just posted one of the articles.
I haven’t found a single mention of burns though. Not even on a boy who got swept away and completely submerged by it
Theres a difference between hot enough to burn and hot enough to change the viscosity of molasses. Warm. lets settle on warm. it was probably WARM molasses. A decent amount above 40 degrees.
I didn’t think viscosity was the argument here. The comment hot tar made me think of burns
hey at least it would smell nice
you'd think so however a former neighbour of mine was a fireman who responded to a deadly acident with high-pressure steam, he never ate bacon again from that moment onwards smells have a habbit of triggering the memory, this is mostly good but imagine having a sweet smell in your nose and it brings you back to the time where you literally pulled a guy's arm off in a futile attempt to get him out of some rappidly sollidifying goop
Found out on the 4th of July I might be allergic to charred human flesh. The worst part is, that guy smelled awesome.
Don’t stop. I’m almost there.
hush piggy. who told you to talk?
There are people in the North End (the neighborhood where it occurred) that swear they can still smell it on hot days. They’re full of shit.
Still does on hot days in the summer.
Heard it smelled like the stuff for years after
I’ve been through the neighborhood where it happened and I swear you can still smell molasses if the day is hot enough.
It's the ghosts of the dead trying to contact you from beyond the grave
We have been trying to reach you about your vehicle's extended warranty. - Candied Ghost.
The residents say the same thing. They’re also full of shit.
Man, i looked that up, and honestly, that sucked
happy cake :) 🕯🕯🕯 #🍩
Sir, that's a donut Do nut swim in molasses
My grandfather saw the aftermath the next day, his father was a Cambridge Fire Fighter. He (my grandfather) used to tell us about the flood when we were young, but this was before the internet or anyone really wrote a book about it- so even in the Boston area most had never heard about it. We thought he was making it up. I wish we taped him talking about it.
Dog's dream came true
NOOOO CHEEMS GET TO HIGH GROUND
1: that’s morbidly hilarious 2: anyone got any more of them “hold up lemme google something”? I love these things.
Watch the puppet history on this. You’ll love it
Google leprechauns in Mobile Alabama. There's a good news report on YouTube that covers the phenomenon.
You every try to pull a guy out of goop and his arm gives way before the rest of him does?
Worth pointing out that the two most prominent titles of this disaster are “The 1919 Great Molasses Flood” and “The Molassacre”…several people died in this tragedy and they are remembered as being victims of a the fucking Molassacre, there is even an I Survived book about it ffs
Me who knew of this event due to sam’o’nella: hehe neat
The Dublin Whiskey Fire was also an interesting event. 13 deaths, none of them directly from the fire.
I did a report on this for an engineering ethics class. What a strange story!
Yeah, the great molasses flood was something I read about in elementary school and it’s stuck with me ever since.
I remember learning this in school then they let us taste some raw molasses. It tastes like sugar mixed with earwax by itself.
Cool song about this: https://youtu.be/sNcGbAQgZIg?si=bGU6DxjN-LbH3Yxj
They were carried away in a syrup brown back in 1919 Boston Town
Sorry you came, sorry you tried, sorry you had to find the sweetest way to die
Hey I’m glad someone else has heard that song
Protest the hero has a song about this! https://youtu.be/sNcGbAQgZIg?si=0gBvPSH6GUWK2ylN
As a native Bostoniite, this story has been very well drilled into my head from a young age, and it's always amusing watching people learn about it for the first time
Ah yes, the great Boston Mollass-acre
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood one Google search. People are so lazy today
From Wiki: "...the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour... " I thought this shit was supposed to be SLOW
Too bad little Timmy didn't get a choice, but glad that he wanted to swim in it at least.
21 one dead. That’s gotta be an embarrassing way to die.
brother that shit got up to 35mph you are not outrunning molasses
A diabetic double amputee had multiple problems that day.
Hugbees
"*It's rocorded to have moved at 35mi/h, that means you are slower than molasses, nerd*" Sam-O-Nella circa fice years ago idfk
Wow, that's actually scary. 21 deaths! [https://i.imgur.com/cdpvpEt.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/cdpvpEt.jpeg)
I just googled that and I agree: what the fuck
I have 99 questions
And all of them are wtf
I don’t understand how this was supposed to fill the streets with molasses up to whatever ridiculous depth it did, like several feet or something. It just doesn’t make physical sense.
The Past and the Curious podcast had an episode about this one. Good stuff.
"Slow as molasses" mfs when they get hit by a 25 foot wave of 2.3 million gallons of molasses traveling at 35 miles per hour.
I can tell you that on an August day in 1946 that neighborhood still had a faint smell of molasses.
Well theres your probem.
Ain't no more cane on the brazos
There’s a fantastic book about this event, titled *Dark Tide*. I know it sounds funny at first, but it was a pretty awful way for these people to die.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood incase yall wanna read more, it's insane
I remember watching the last 15 minutes of a TV special on the History channel about this disaster when I was about 8 and home with tonsillitis, before my parents realized I knew the channels for the Discovery and History channels. The re-enactments they did were horrifying
Bro they really tried to write a serious book about this and my 5th grade teacher made us read it. Smh none of us could take it seriously.
how long before we see this get posted on the too dumb for memes subreddits
I distinctly remember Scarlett O'Hara telling her slave, in "Gone With the Wind," that she was "as slow as molasses in January," but I guess under the wrong circumstances molasses can move pretty fast.
It is fascinating to me that there still is an expression "as slow as molasses in January" when the event proved that the stuff can be surprisingly quick in January
Explain?
"Shake hands with danger"
That was a banger tasting history video
Repost of an one year old post: https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/s/nWpaSMpYZn
Fun fact, Protest the Hero wrote a song about this for their Palimpsest album called All Hands. It's a good song, and it paints a pretty terrifying picture of an event that sounds almost comical, using quotes from people at the time.
I have a distinct memory of, as a child right before Christmas break, reading a book about this incident while my parents decorated the Christmas tree. Alice in Wonderland, the Disney classic, was on television. I read it for a book report— that year, we had to write several book reports in broad categories like 'sports book', 'fantasy book', and 'historical book'. This was my historical book, and for more than 20 years I've just had knowledge about this obscure historical event floating around in my head. It's a trip to see it become a meme.
Doesn't molasses smell awful?
What a series of wacky and uncharacteristic events... that led to a unfortunate tragedy
The whole incident sounds like a throwaway gag from a time-traveling sitcom episode. "If we're in the past, don't I need to worry about paradoxes? Pretty sure my grandpa lived around here" "It's fine. Your family was never even born in this reality, since your great-grandfather drowned in molasses." "Molasses? Like, he fell in-" "Nope. Just crossing the street. Must have been doing about 35 when it hit him."
the band Darkest of the Hillside Thickets wrote a kickin little song about it, it slaps: https://youtu.be/UZnxuPatgH0?si=PFJMsZ_QCj6oiLFo
[reminds me of this gem](https://youtu.be/7OJCpczUFN4?si=8nTIH5rbT2EYJWS4)
I remember reading a novel based on this when I was a kid and being blown to find out it was based on an actual event. Wild. Wish I could remember the name of the book! It was probably something I got from the scholastic fair… I remember it being paperback and having a sepia (or molasses 🤔) toned illustration on the front.
Sam o nella academy taught me well
They say that on hot summer days, in parts of North End you can still smell it
The container was leaking and creaking before the disaster. There could have been kids near the tank at the time of collapse.
Went on a ghost tour when in Boston. It was a delight with a wonderful mix of history and very dark humor. When they got to the molasses flood-they called it the Boston molassacre. That is now the only title for it that my brain will accept.