I don't mean it, really. Some of my best friends on Europeans. (grin) Not to mention all of my ancestors. But after I wrote that last post, the title of this post just wrote itself when I read this story:
Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported.
According to online magazine www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and were shocked when the body of a naked man fell out.
The website said that the body of the man had been shipped back from Jamaica 20 years ago by his wife in the barrel of rum in order to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return.
According to the website, workers said the rum in the 300-liter barrel had a "special taste" so they even decanted a few bottles of the liquor to take home.
Anyone feeling ill?
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1. Posted by Pascal Venier on May 5, 2006 @ 6:59 | Permalink
Nothing wrong with drinking "Nelson's blood", the expression used in the Naval slang for Rum!
The tale is that following the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), the body of Nelson was pickled in rum and brought back to England. During the trip the crew would have drained most of the rum.
Last year the Royal Society of Chemistry worked with "The Rum Story" in Whitehaven, to produce a commemorative rum.
It seems however that it was in fact Brandy which was used and not rum as the legend has it.
On this see the Site of the UK National Archives!
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nelson/gallery8/
2. Posted by Gordon Smith on May 5, 2006 @ 7:59 | Permalink
Well, you can tell I am not a drinker!
The fact that this has some precedent is really scary.
3. Posted by Eric H on May 7, 2006 @ 20:24 | Permalink
If your grog ain't strong enough to kill whatever nasties might be leakin' out of a human body, why bother?
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