Turns out the “Green Fairy” is just another pink elephant.

German scientists put old bottles of the substance to the test and found that the liquid is 70 percent alcohol (140 proof) and 0 percent hallucination.

“All things considered, nothing besides ethanol was found in the absinthes that was able to explain the syndrome ‘absinthism’,” the researchers wrote in an open-access paper in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Don’t foward this to your friends. Buy some and watch ‘em fake their hallucinations.

[via Linkswarm]