Nutmeg

[Mattias Hallin]

OK. This is way off topic, but here goes: Ross Russell, in his Charlie Parker
(you know -- the jazz musician?!) biography "Bird Lives" tells about how the
adolescent (early teens) Parker and a friend got high on coffee spiked with
nutmeg -- so much so, according to Russell, that they freaked out and stayed
away from home and school for several days. I *think* Russell also mentions
this coffee'n'nutmegs thing as a common poor man's/kids' drug of the period
(early/mid-thirties).

So, to get back *on* topic, Barks might have been having his li'l ol' private
joke with the censors at Western when he has $crooge drinking nutmeg tea, eh?

All my best to everyone!

/Mattias

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