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Holidays got you down? Try a bottle of "Jake!"... - 12/27/2011 2:45:26 PM    Picklejar   Posts: 288 Joined: 7/9/2011 From: Philadelphia, Pa. Status: offline I just found this blue variant of F. Brown's Ess. Of Jamaica Ginger, or commonly "jake". This stuff was like rat poison for alcoholics. After they got in trouble for basically selling rubbing alcohol to people as a "drink", they faked out inspectors by "increasing the apparent volume of ginger solids" in the essence using a chemical compound which would later turn out to be an early plastic compound. People went blind, lost the ability to hold still and eventually died from chemical poisoning. But who can argue against cheap booze right? I turn at 5th and Chestnut everyday, and I think on old F. Brown as I do. Thanks for looking, anyone else have a "jake" in a color besides clear? ---Joe Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Holidays got you down? Try a bottle of "Jake!&... - 12/27/2011 6:32:06 PM    myersdiggers1998 Posts: 1699 Joined: 10/2/2007 From: northern n.y. watertown(GlenPark) Status: offline cool story and a nice bottle. _____________________________ gordon myers dig and you will find!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! always looking for watertown n.y, bottles (in reply to Picklejar) Post #: 2

RE: Holidays got you down? Try a bottle of "Jake!&... - 12/27/2011 6:46:15 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline I dug a Sanford's Jamaica Ginger in aqua. That's pretty horrible what happened to people who used it, yuck! _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to myersdiggers1998) Post #: 3

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