It sounded like a machine gun.
Then a roar.
And then everything was brown.
Hi everybody!
My name is Shawna and this is the American English Podcast.
My goal here is to teach you the English spoken in the United States.
Through common expressions, pronunciation tips, and interesting cultural snippets or stories,
I hope to keep this fun, useful, and interesting.
Let's do it!
Hi everybody!
Welcome back!
Today's episode is about one of the strangest and possibly one of the most tragic disasters in US history.
It doesn't involve earthquakes, tornadoes, or hurricanes.
Those are what we call natural disasters.
No, it involves molasses.
Talk about an unnatural disaster.
If you're not familiar with molasses, It's a thick,
dark syrup that's produced during the process of refining sugar.
When you refine something, you purify it to make it usable.
So molasses is sticky, it's sweet and somewhat bitter,