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It was the "favourite drink" of a bunch of maverick share traders in London, known as "The Flaming Ferraris" after the drink. They gambled huge amounts of CSFB bank's cash until they got caught trying to manipulate the markets.
They crashed and burned at the beginning of 1999. The drink probably went out of fashion at that point.