How to use Sterno:

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Sterno has long been mixed with water and other liquids to produce a drink
called "canned heat", "squeeze" or "pink lady". The product is squeezed
through a rag (or in other traditions, a loaf of French bread with ends
removed) to extract the alcohol. These alcoholic beverages, primarily used
in poorer communities, have been linked to numerous deaths from methanol
poisoning, including 31 people in Philadelphia in 1963.

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Cultural Sidebar (same source):

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In 1929 Tommy Johnson recorded "Canned Heat Blues", about an alcoholic who
has desperately turned to drinking Sterno. The band Canned Heat later took
its name from this song.

In Michael Crichton's 1969 techno-thriller novel The Andromeda Strain, one
of the two survivors of the strain's outbreak, Peter Jackson, is addicted
to Sterno, which makes his blood acidic. This later turns out to be of
importance in the plot.

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