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> the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour), killing 21 and injuring 150 people.

That sounds truly horrifying. My intuition about molasses at that volume is all wrong.

That's shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluids for you.

And it even happened in January at that.

Also see the Dublin Whiskey Fire[0] and the London Beer Flood[1] and maybe the Kentucky Meat Shower[2] as an honorable mention.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_whiskey_fire

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_meat_shower

> While there were no human fatalities as a direct result of the fire or flood, 13 people died of alcohol poisoning after drinking from the stream of whiskey

I just can't think of something more Irish than that :-).

> the release of [...] food products including hams, hot dogs, bakery items, and cranberries

"Firefighters, this isn't going to be a picnic!"

"It isn't?"

If it was in Europe they could have used to Milk Lake to put out the burning Butter Mountain.