Love means never having to say 'I slipped arsenic into your meat juice'

This Victorian-era "meat juice" tonic, called "Valentine's Meat Juice", was created by a man trying to save his dying wife. Although meat juice isn't everyone's idea of romance, the story behind its creation is undeniably sweet. The reputation of the meat juice took a turn for the worse when it became entangled in one of the most sensational murder trials of the 1880s. — Read the rest

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