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rumme

alcohol, sugar, dark caramel and rum flavouring

Also known as rum fantasia or liquori camici, rumme is made around Livorno and is an essential ingredient in the local hot toddy, ponce. It was invented when the locals developed a taste for rum, but couldn't afford the real thing.

Drinks

Tuscany

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