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If you thought yesterday's snowstorm was rough, try thinking about the wave of molasses that poured through the North End on January 15, 1919. The molasses flood happened when a shoddily built tank burst at the seams, sending waves of molasses through the North End, knocking down homes and crushing people. more ›

Stephen Puleo will be reading from Dark Tide: The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 pm. He'll be in the English lounge of Wheatley Hall on the U-Mass-Boston campus. Forget what you know about molasses - molasses is fast, as North End residents discovered on January 15, 1919. The story isn't told as often as it should be - a tank full of 2.3 million gallons of molasses fell and burst... more ›

With parents hailing from the Midwest, little Bostonist was not exposed to locally-created Fluffernutter sandwiches until Kindergarten when a lunch mate pulled out what appeared to be some strange variation of PB & J. Turns out it was Marshmallow Fluff and peanut butter on Wonder Bread. (This was the 80s, so nutritional value for kids was lacking a bit back then.) We've been hooked on this sandwich ever since, so when we heard that the... more ›