In 1863 a French chemist and patent medicine maker named Angelo Mariani combined wine and coca and called it Vin Mariani. The combination of cocaine and alcohol must have packed a powerful wallop. The “tonic wine” became extremely popular for… Read More
Because America was at war with Germany in WWI, hamburgers (named after the German city of Hamburg) were renamed Salisbury steaks. Frankfurters were called “liberty sausages,” and dachshunds became “liberty dogs.”