Interesting
Belgian-made
vodka first
imported into the United States in 1991. The following year
Black Death was banned by the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, which asserted that the
liquor's name and label—which featured a sinister image of a grinning
skull wearing a black top hat—created "the misleading impression of
bubonic plague and
poison."
This image was furthered by the product's endorsement by Slash of Guns 'n Roses.
In October of 1992 the company that originally distributed Black Death in the US, Cabo Distributing Company, won its appeal against the ban in a Federal district court.
I don't entirely understand why one would what to buy a product that created the impression of bubonic plague and poison in the first place. I'm not sure who is more gullible, the ATF or consumers.