EvanD
April 28, 2025, 11:20pm
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Spotted this in the grocery store today. Those interested in making those historical cocktail-cum-diarrhea cures that call for “Jamaica ginger” may find this product serviceable, and the four ounce container conveys the thrill of the illicit without any of the tricresyl phosphate.
Jamaica ginger extract, known in the United States by the slang name Jake, was a late 19th-century patent medicine that provided a convenient way to obtain alcohol during the era of Prohibition, since it contained approximately 70% to 80% ethanol by weight. In the 1930s, a large number of users of Jamaica ginger were afflicted with a paralysis of the hands and feet that quickly became known as Jamaica ginger paralysis or jake paralysis.
While Jamaica ginger was essentially an infusion of ginge...
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martin
April 29, 2025, 10:44am
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Hilarious. I wonder what dubious fashion inspired this new product?
I happen to like ginger (strong or weak) simply as a flavor, so I’ll keep an eye out.
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