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I was checking out The Straight Dope and they have a section called "Threadspotting"--which is for interesting conversations. This one was about disasters. I've never heard of the Boston Molasses Flood, or the Madison Cheese Fire or this one:

The London Beer Flood of 1814

Can anyone imagine of whom I thought when I read it? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
 
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Oh, I almost hate to say this (just call me "Miss Gullible), but is this true? True or not, it is hilarious!
 
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Oh, honey, I'm the Poster Girl of Gullible Wink
But so far as I know, it's the real deal.
 
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I've never heard of it either, but the Meux name adds versimilitude. The Friary Meux brewery used to be based in Guildford, Surrey and was presumably formed from a merger of two brewers. Friary Meux was later taken over by Ind Coope in Burton who were in turn swallowed up by the Allied Breweries giant.
 
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This is completely true. The Friary brewery was in Guildford and Meux were in London. They did merge and, when I started drinking, my local pub (the Bull in Reigate) was a Friary Meux house (or Friary Muck, as we used to call it). I seem to remember that a pint was just over a tanner - it might have been eightpence-halfpenny.

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Last October, WinterBranch mentioned the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.
 
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