Comments on: Snake Juice

By: D

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:39:27 +0000

Went back to the motherland and bought some of that stuff but with scorpions instead. Supposedly great for manly type stuff…

By: fergieferg

fergieferg — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:31:35 +0000

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bZZXcRFpFAg

I had some of the stuff, a friend has a neighbor that is from Vietnam, he had a few bottles of it. They poured the shot before I got to see the bottle, it was pretty potent stuff.

By: fluff

fluff — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:03:06 +0000

Makes me kind of sad

By: Maddy

Maddy — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:59:18 +0000

I’ve had this stuff. The first shot made me projectile puke, but the second one wasn’t too bad. By the third or fourth my mouth was numb anyway.

By: ELLERY

ELLERY — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:10:13 +0000

Not to burst any bubbles, but that looks like a cobra instead of a rattle snake. I live in Texas, and we are replete with the nasty critters.

By: loremIpsum

loremIpsum — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:03:50 +0000

It is correct, that you find snakes in rice wine in about every shop in Viet Nam. The monkeys are harder to find though:
http://www.plan-b.in/22-February-06.81.0.html

By: Ashe

Ashe — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:03:31 +0000

Oh yea, we were told by the older Vietnamese guy that he has a glass every morning because it makes him stronger, but the rat wine – that’s only for special occasions!

It is absolutely foul by the way!!

By: Christophe

Christophe — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:37:36 +0000

It’s also a specialty in the French Alps : http://www.flickr.com/photos/le_hibou/108307184/

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:16:51 +0000

They sell this type in China too. I had the opportunity to try snake wine (because how badass does it sound to say you’ve drank snake?) but I had to decline for the rat one.. that was.. wrong to say the elast.

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:57:02 +0000

oakling: i think you meant to comment on the previous (and very similar) post. XD

By: Oomi

Oomi — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:16:12 +0000

Gaah, that pic made me cringe.

By: oakling

oakling — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:12:04 +0000

I love how we’re not supposed to reuse plastic water bottles because the chemicals will leach into the water, but RATTLESNAKES… that’s just fine.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:39:08 +0000

nice picture, and Carl Thanks a lot for the link that was hilarious!

By: RooGrrrl

RooGrrrl — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:31:58 +0000

Dude! That’s 3 Snake Wine! An ex-boyfriend of mine found some of that when he was doing a moving job for a Chinese restaurant. The proprietor told him it would make him sexually attractive and so he drank some of it. Maybe it worked, I sure thought he was hot.

By: binky

binky — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:31:16 +0000

They make snake cachaca in Brazil too.

By: Carl Huber

Carl Huber — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:27:27 +0000

It’s incredibly common in those cultures. There’s a video of the foul mouthed TV Chef and one of the Top Gear guys drinking the stuff. I posted it over on my forum; let me see if I can find it.

Here it is:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=VKEPPw5Jd2M

I’d love to try the stuff just to say I had, but the quality of the liquor is I’m sure absolute crap.

The REALLY fowl stuff (pun intended) is some nordic or icelandic or inuit cultures (apologies, I don’t remember which) actually put birds into bottles. That’s very dangerous – much higher likelihood of contamination. The other animals aren’t really that big of a deal.

By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:53:27 +0000

Pudifoot, so does Tequila…

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:46:41 +0000

supposedly it does wonders for back pain. O.o

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:45:55 +0000

You can by snake wine all over the place in Vietnam.

By: karina

karina — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:16:04 +0000

it’s their culture and we can’t blame them for it

By: Jerse

Jerse — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:36:35 +0000

They put all sorts of animals in their liquor bottles over there. They think they can drink the animals characteristics or some jazz like that…