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Originally Posted by Lumpold
+1 for Edit 2...
BUT, why the hell can't you get the proper stuff in the US? Is Bison Grass gonna kill me, or is it the fact that there is a blade of said grass in the bottle, which might mean some drunk twunt accidentally plants it and introduces an alien grass species to the US?
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According to Wikipedia "because bison grass contains the toxic compound coumarin, which is prohibited as a food additive by the Food and Drug Administration, importing of Żubrówka into the United States was banned in 1978 by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms."
And the reason why the U.S. version tastes different "when produced according to traditional methods (between one and two kilograms of grass per thousand litres of alcohol), Żubrówka contains approximately 12 milligrams of coumarin per litre. In 1999, Polish distilleries introduced reformulated U.S.-export versions of the product, sometimes using artificial flavours and colours, always with the emblematic blade of grass in every bottle, but "neutralised" and coumarin-free."