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There’s a colorful history to the original Bunghole Liquor store in bewitching Salem, Massachusetts. You see, the Bunghole used to be a funeral home. And during Prohibition the owner and his buddies, like many others at that time, used a slang word to refer to their secret drinking spot in the basement. The slang term they used was “bunghole, ” as in “Psst, meet you tonight at the bunghole.” Liquor flowed freely in the funeral parlor basement, the same place where the bodies were embalmed. One o