The Sailors Who Held A Funeral For Their Rum (A Chinwag Of All Sorts)
6,413It's a known tradition that every year on July 31st sailors across Great Britain like to get drunk on rum. So why is the rum gone?
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Original Article:
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Sources:
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/z4gqge/a-brief-history-of-drunken-british-sailors
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8859000/8859506.stm
https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2017/08/02/beer-board-age-sail/#.Xw3IeyhKiUk
https://www.northernbrewer.com/blogs/new-to-brewing-start-here/how-to-brew-beer-homebrewing-101
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_ration
https://redheadoakbarrels.com/does-all-liquor-get-better-with-age/#:~:text=Only%20certain%20aging%20makes%20spirits,rum%20or%20even%20a%20tequila.
Images:
Sailors,
Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F048234-0015 / Wegmann, Ludwig / CC-BY-SA 3.0 / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en)
Rum,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rum_display_in_liquor_store.jpg
Royal Navy,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy
Beer,
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44
Louis Pasteur,
Paul Nadar / Public domain
Carribbean Crush,
https://www.hancocks.co.uk/levi-roots-caribbean-crush-500ml
Captain Morgans Spiced Rum,
https://www.gourmetencasa-tcm.com/en/2175-captain-morgan-spiced-gold-70-cl.html?SubmitCurrency=1&id_currency=2&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIk8C854bN6gIV1eFRCh0PNQPFEAQYASABEgLvg_D_BwE
How To Train Your Dragon 2,
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1646971/
Stoick,
https://dreamworks.fandom.com/wiki/Stoick_the_Vast
HMS Ganges,
Coote, R G G (Lt) Royal Navy official photographer / Public domain
Bronze elephant,
http://www.bqmsstores.com/store/p66/HMS_Ganges.html
Spiderman,
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8559199
Crash Bandicoot,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Bandicoot_(video_game)
Jaws,
https://jaws.fandom.com/wiki/Jaws
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