OVER the years, it's been a common joke that badly-made or foul-tasting alcoholic drinks “taste like rocket fuel” especially if they burn the throat or mouth as they are swallowed.
Having said that, it's also been claimed since the early days of liquid-fuelled rocketry in World War II that people have drunk actual rocket fuel to get intoxicated.
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