Who would have thought it would be cheaper to ship rum overseas than a body? Evidently this was the case betwixt Jamaica and Hungary twenty years ago. The best part: evidently, corpse improves the flavor of rum.
Snopes just posted something about this, here I can't read it because I'm at work (stupid work filter) so I have no idea if snopes says yea or nay on this.
Origins: Versions of the basic legend about unwitting persons drinking a liquid used to preserve a corpse have been around for centuries. The most famous of these older tales features the transported remains of Admiral Nelson, but numerous stories dating as far back as 1861 about casks containing liquor-preserved monkeys going astray have also been meticulously recorded. And as we'll see later, a kissing cousin of this legend was all the rage in the thirteenth century
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The most famous instance of preservation by immersion in alcohol was the casking of the remains of Lord Nelson in the ship's brandy stores after his death during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. That much is true - Nelson was, in effect, pickled to get as much of him home in as
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I can't read it because I'm at work (stupid work filter) so I have no idea if snopes says yea or nay on this.
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