Pickled Corpse, anyone?

[rebeccafrog]

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.

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[baliset]

O.o 20 years ago?!

Eew. Hopefully my nice mainstream rum was shipped in a corpse-free barrel. *eyes rum suspiciously*

[mcsassypants]

Yeeek!
I fear I'll always be suspicious of rum now...

[rebeccafrog]

Eh. Corpse shipped overseas in a booze barrel is nothing new. It's just that usually, it was to cover up a murder. :) The corpse improving the flavor of the booze is also new. Well, so far as I know. Tasty babies, sure, but tasty dead guy?

[mcsassypants]

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.

[mcsassypants]

Okay. I was mistaken. Work filter is being nice today.

Myth.

[rebeccafrog]

So... I didn't need to post the full text below?

[rebeccafrog]

Bier Barrel