Thursday, October 16, 2008

Why Boston is called Beantown

Boston is called Beantown because of baked beans.

Back in colonial times Boston was part of the triangle trade, resulting in mass amounts of sugar cane which was made into molasses. Molasses is a key ingredient of Boston Baked Beans, a favorite dish of the times. This mass of molasses turned deadly when a molasses tank burst open and killed 21 people during the The Great Molasses Flood of 1919.

Why do I know this? One of my co-workers asked me why Boston was called Beantown, and the information just stuck...like molasses.

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