Hagar the Horrible, 2/17/26

This one, I think, adds up: in Viking-era Scandinavia, sugar would've been imported at great expense from the Islamic world, but because it was a luxury good those selling sugar and sugar-derived products like rum could charge much higher markups on it than they could on, say, drinks made from local commodity crops like barley or honey. The candle thing was probably real too, but I'm not going to bother looking that one up.

Herb and Jamaal, 2/17/26