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Пишет kouzdra ([info]kouzdra)
@ 2014-01-10 18:34:00


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"Судя по этикетке у вас там яд, а там просто водка" © Бюро по алкоголю, табаку и оружию :)
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The brand probably started out as moonshine. A clear, potent drink developed in 1906 by a family called Sigurdsson, the spirit got its moniker from the local Icelandic, “Svarta Daudi,” or “Black Death.” One surmises this name must be the outcome of the pre-distinguish “describe” phase. For the next 80 years, Black Death would stay largely out of the spotlight.
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Its bottles distinguished with a smiling, top-hatted skull, Black Death began to see problems in 1990 when the Scarborough Football Club was banned from wearing jerseys sponsored by Black Death. Then, in April 1992, reporting on the then Belgian-produced Black Death, Time magazine stated that “the [US] Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms [ATF], with exquisite literalness, is blocking the liquor on grounds of misleading advertising, since the brand seems to promise poison and plague but delivers only vodka.”