Oh, look! It's a new regular feature, where we discuss a historical event (an historical event?) now largely forgotten.
And if you don't live in the Boston area you might not know about the molasses flood of January, 1919. Back then molasses was a more prominent industrial product, and the Purity Distilling Company built a tank in Boston which held about 2.3 million gallons of the stuff. One unusually warm winter day the tank burst, let loose a 15 foot wave of goo, and drowned 21 people. Imagine explaining that at the pearly gates...
Image and more found at this Wikipedia link.
