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| Dec 14, 2005 8:09 am |
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re: XXX |
Onkar Singh Plaha
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I don't know for sure but this is what I have been given to believe:
In olden days when Rum was prepaired and sent to far away lands by ship, it was transported in wooden drums. When the ship would return with some unsold drums, the stock used to be replenished with newly filled drums. The drums that had returned (old stock, so to say) were marked with a single "X". If any of them came back again, that(or those) was marked with another "X", and then with another for the next voyage. In those days one return journey of a ship would usually take a few months,if not years. So the number of "X' markings would tell, in a way' the age of the Rum.
Two things are not known to me. One,whether they considered the Rum to become better with inceasing numbers of"X", or the other way round ? Two, Why then there was no such thing as "XXXX" Rum. I am inclined to think that they thought that after three returns the Rum was rendered useless and therefore,they may be throwing it into the sea or leave it behind to be consumed by the slaves (or may be the officers), depending upon how stupid or wise they were.
Anyway, not to worry. We are quite alright with XXX.
Cheers,
Onkar Singh Plaha.
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