Cleanup crews used salt water from a fireboat to wash away the molasses and sand to absorb it,[17] and the harbor was brown with molasses until summer.[18] The cleanup in the immediate area took weeks,[19] with several hundred people contributing to the effort,[7]: 132–134, 139 [15] and it took longer to clean the rest of Greater Boston and its suburbs. Rescue workers, cleanup crews, and sight-seers had tracked molasses through the streets and spread it to subway platforms, to the seats inside trains and streetcars, to pay telephone handsets, into homes,[6][7]: 139 and to countless other places. It was reported that "Everything that a Bostonian touched was sticky."[6]
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"Everything that a Bostonian touched was sticky."
Gross 🤢
Being able to share stories like this, is the good thing about the Internet.
Keep my ducking oatmeal out of your mouth
Missed opportunity to call it the Boston Molassacre.
Also, here, have a song about the Boston Molassacre;
Drowning is molasses has actually long been on my list of the most horrible horrible ways in which I very much do not want to die. Just under being buried alive.
high viscosity means you cant even "swim"
Thanks. My phobia is now extra horrible.
I believe this is what was referenced in the Night Watch books by Terry Prachet. I have found reading this article to be both horrifying and fascinating.
Treacle Mine road!
if you enjoy puppets and songs
the Puppet History on this event!
personally, the song in this episode is my favourite
sticky situation
Now I want pancakes :(
Has this been covered on WTYPP?
I believe it was one of the live shows? I can't remember if I actually heard a recording or not. It was one of the ones they joked about after each episode that they would do but never did.