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Originally Posted by Avatard
Well, the story on the three beans is sketchy. It's called being served "con mosca", which actually means "with flies", the prevailing wisdom being that passing flies would see a few of their dead brothers floating in the sweet liquid, and avoid it.
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I had always heard from old Italians it was for luck.
Whatever the reason it is still something I have to fish out of the glass with a fork so I order it without. The fire is just burning up perfectly good alcohol so I'm not interested in that either.