Great story, Don:

When I was a little kid, we had to rent out half of our house in order to pay the $8 a month mortgage. Tommy Pope and his wife rented out the other half (of a five room house.) Tommy was an alcoholic and his wife stopped his credit at every store you could imagine. But, she didn't think of the corner grocery store. There are many products that are high in alcohol. Tommy drank Extract Of Vanilla. Not only was he slightly, pleasantly drunk all the time, he had the sweetest smelling breath in town. Wrote a song about him with the lines:

"He'd send me to the corner store, with a dollar in my hand
For extract of vanilla, and never mind the brand
As long as it was alcohol, it was all the same to him
It helped to pass the time away, back in Tommy's room

It didn't take Tommy's wife long to catch on, though. And every Monday morning when I hauled the bottle out for pickup, we had a whole washtub full of empty extract of vanilla bottles.. :-)

Jerry