How the Boston Molasses Flood Worked

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2009

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Today, people associate molasses with cookies and other sweets. Yet in 1919 molasses was used in munitions as well as food -- and Boston had one of the biggest tanks around. Learn how molasses flooded Boston in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, from Howstuffworks.com.
0:35.8	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:45.3	I'm Katie Lambert, joined by Sarah Dowdy.
0:47.7	How are you, Sarah?
0:48.7	I'm great.
0:49.7	How are you, Katie?
0:50.7	Good.
0:51.7	Today we're going to be talking about a story that sounds funny,
0:55.2	but it's really not.
0:57.3	I wanted to give you a little intro.
0:59.4	Some days when it's hot in Boston, even today, people claim you can smell molasses.
1:06.2	Why would they say that, Sarah?
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