https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
96 YEARS AFTER BOSTON DISASTER
What if Molasses flooded Medford today?
We know a certain reprobate, the "candy man," would eat it all up, ballooning out, bursting the elastic band around his tummy, and breaking his father-in-law's favorite easy chair that he likes to sit in.
We'd need a K-9 cop to come out of retirement to put a harpoon in the whale. It would then pop and flutter away out of existence... but there would be all that molasses to clean up!!!
Ker Plunk
At least they'd have some good cement for the Cradock Bridge project.
The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster or the Great Boston Molasses Flood, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150. The event has entered local folklore, and for decades afterward residents claimed that on hot summer days the area still smelled of molasses.[1]