Snake Booze

Go see a doctor. Really.

 

Yea. The swedish vipers are not very dangerous, unless you are allergic.

But go see a doctor.

 

Perhaps if you milked the snakes first?
That way there'd be less venom to trigger a bad reaction.

But go see a doctor.

 

I would find out more about the liquor in question before you start dumping reptiles in your vodka. But before you check wikipedia, I'd have someone check out your head.

Go see a doctor, for fuck's sake.

 

...You guys are all on the rag.

DE, you're fine. The snakes in the bottle are venomous snakes, but all of the venomous proteins have been denatured by the alcohol of the drink. There's still a lingering effect from the toxins, however, and it basically means the drink is touted as a bit of a folk remedy for impotence (among other things), giving the imbiber the sting of a cobra, if you will.

 

This seems to be what DE described; as Gross said, the venom proteins are denatured by the alcohol (though further reading in Wikipedia suggests that snake venom in general is usually not dangerous when ingested).

 

So... it's vodka with none of the disappointing side effects!

 

As incredibly fascinating as that is, it leaves me to ask one lingering question: Who the fuck even comes up with something like that? I mean, is someone sitting around the old gondola thinking "Meh, the pinot noir just doesn't do it for me anymore. I think I'll try fermenting some fucking snakes for a better kick."

 

The question you should ask instead is: Why not?

 

It's all about the culture. Hell, the Chinese like putting mice in theirs!

 

Good point. Someone needs to make a drink with baby bunnies in it. Admittedly, you'd probably need a mini keg... and clear, so you could see the baby bunny. Otherwise, what's the point?

I wonder if this drink would be boring or more exciting for a blind person. The question is, is it not even worth it since you can't see the snake, or more crazy because you can think about the snake, or feel it moving around in the bottle, but not see it? Or, maybe you think your buddies are just fucking with you when they say there's a dead snake in your vodka.

 

I wouldn't expect furry animals to make very good tea bags.

 

Like I said before, there is a Chinese wine with dead mice in it. You can marinate anything you want in the alcohol, and osmosis will circulate the properties of whatever you put into the alcohol throughout the drink. Personally, I'd put the poison glands of a platypus into whiskey.

 

The platypus has poison glands? And yeah, I think if you're going to put poison in anything alcoholic, it would probably go with whiskey the best.