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How the Boston Molasses Flood Worked

How the Boston Molasses Flood Worked

Stuff You Missed in History Class

October 5, 200917m 8s

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Show Notes

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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