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PUSSER'S RUM CAKE IS BACK!! . Celebrate the holidays with an Up Spirits Rum cake made with the finest high quality ingredients, including copious amounts of 3 year aged Wooden pot-stilled Pusser's Navy Rum. . A hefty 2 pounds of delicious cake, shrink wrapped and sealed to keep fresh for up to 12 months in a cool Pusser’s black tin. . We're selling them at Tiki Underground until November 24, and through our online store until December 15, or while supplies last! UP SPIRITS!!! - TU #tikiunderground #tiki #tikiohio #tikibar #upspirits #pussers #pussersrum #rumcake #holidays #christmas #akronbars #akron #cuyahogafalls (at Tiki Underground) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVivTNRPANK/?utm_medium=tumblr

On this day in 1970 the Royal Navy served up its last rum ration in what became known as “Black Tot Day”. In the early days of the navy, the daily ration for sailors was a gallon of beer. However, from 1655 onwards, after England had taken the sugar/molasses/rum producing Caribbean islands such as Jamaica from the Spanish, half a pint of rum was introduced and quickly became preferred to beer – keeping better than beer and being stronger in alcohol. In April 1969 the Admiralty Board issued a response to a question from MP Christopher Mayhew, saying: “The Admiralty Board concludes that the rum issue is no longer compatible with the high standards of efficiency required now that the individual’s tasks in ships are concerned with complex, and often delicate, machinery and systems on the correct functioning of which people’s lives may depend”. On 31 July of 1970, at the traditional six bells in the forenoon watch (11am) the last pipe of “up spirits” was called on Royal Navy vessels around the world. Sailors wore black armbands, tots were “buried at sea” and at HMS Collingwood, one of the navy’s raining camps in Hampshire, a mock funeral complete with a shrouded coffin was held. #rum #blacktotday #upspirits https://www.instagram.com/p/B0mNhdxFhTQ/?igshid=15hf4isz9bn8x