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Unusual Drinks And Beverages From Around The World
Published on: June 19, 2010 – 12:56 am by FNH Staff 
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Put down your boring can of Pepsi and check out what people around the world are drinking!
This is made using the nests of cave dwelling birds. The birds basically vomit a sticky goo into their nests, and the goo firmly attaches the nest to the cave wall. This is considered a delicacy in China, even though the bird spit reportedly tastes musty and has the consistency of snot.
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They call this a “synthetic blood substitute” – complete with iron, protein, and electrolytes. It has the look and consistency of real blood, and it comes in a blood pouch. Available for sale here.
Warning: there are some gross photos ahead!
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Yes, this is actual human breast milk in a carton. Thankfully, they put a suckling baby on the side so people will be less likely to accidentally use it in their coffee.
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In Alaska, the Eskimos collect dead seagulls and put them in glass bottles filled with water. Oh, it gets worse. They then cork the bottle and let it ferment in the sun for weeks. It supposedly tastes like carburetor fluid, and gives you a nasty hangover. The real question is, has Sarah Palin tried it?
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In Japan, you can buy a beverage made with placenta (pig, not human). Women think it makes them look youthful. You can get it diluted in 10000mg, and it’s also available in 400000mg for the placenta diehards. Zero calories, ladies! Take that, Vitamin Water!
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This item is currently in its final testing phase in India, and is expected to be released later this year. The urine will reportedly be mixed with flavors like aloe vera and gooseberry, and will compete in the soda market against Pepsi and Coke. Video here.
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This is actually considered a “health tonic” across Asia, where they drown 2 day old baby mice in bottles of rice wine and leave them there to ferment. They believe that the mice must be bottled before they open their eyes, or the wine will be poisoned. And you thought swallowing a tequila worm was bad?
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Yes, it’s as bad as it sounds. Street vendors pluck frogs from their aquariums, kill them, skin them, and drop them into a blender. The “juice” is supposed to cure bronchitis, asthma, lethargy, and various other ills. Read all about it at MSNBC.
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This is simply snake blood, mixed with snake bile. They cut off the snake’s head, drain the blood into glasses, and drink it. It supposedly enhances male potency. So much for Viagra.
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This was from the memorable Jones Soda holiday pack in 2006. Other flavors included sweet potato soda, dinner roll soda, and pea/antacid flavored soda. In 2009, they released the even more disgusting sounding Tofurky and Gravy Soda. Thanks, but I’ll pass.
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Yet another drink for male potency! It’s basically white wine, with a gigantic deer penis flopping around in it. The drink was actually banned from the Olympics in China in 2008.
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eww :(
Why are so many people around the globe having flaccid penis problems? Call me nutty, but drinking blood, urine, and ground up animals doesn’t turn me on.
That human breast milk seems unethical and dangerous. Very interesting read
Unethical?? So you’re unaware that there are human milk banks in the US for cases like adopted babies, or mothers who cannot make a normal milk supply? And many NICUs need milk donations for the preemies, since formula is so hard for them to digest. Banked milk is pasteurized after being screened for any communicable diseases, and is far superior to formula.
Why is milk from a nasty, dirty cow somehow acceptable, but human milk drunk by a human is foul?? That is bizarre logic.
Agreed, Lauren. We drink cow breast milk but Dannie has a problem with people drinking people breast milk?!!?WTH?? That “Got Milk?” brainwashing ad campaign has another mindless dweeb signed up. Wow, just wow.
btw, what do the calves—you know, the baby cows for whom the cow breast milk is meant–do for food? Yup, soy milk. Who knew?!
We as a species are decimating this planet faster than you can slug down a —-shudder—- glass of ice cold cow breast milk. ick. just ick.
So when it comes to sex we have people eating poop, drinking pee, sucking down semen, licking sweat and the one liquid that comes from a human body that’s MEANT to be consumed is somehow wrong and dangerous?
I couldn’t agree more. Human breast milk is disgusting. It’s one thing to feed your own child but to bottle and sell on store shelves is absolutely unethical and vile.
“Vile”? Really? It’s THAT offensive to you? Why? What’s the difference between women pumping their breasts, putting the resulting milk into bottles and feeding their children that way–which I did, by the way, when my twins had to be in the NICU after they were born–and this product?
By the way, did anybody notice that the original poster who had a problem is named Dannie and this one is named Danni? Is it just Daniels and derivaritives thereof who think this way?
So Jillian, Guy Ferry in mismatched clothes wasn’t cutting it anymore? Maybe it’s the pregnancy or the chef in me that does want to try the Thanksgiving Jones soda, I like some of their normal flavors. And I’m with Trixie, why are all these men having erectile problems?
I’m here to defend men worldwide when it comes to a tonic enhancing male virility. I call my tonic “breathing”…being conscious is optional.
Works for me.
America needs to step it up.
Kool-Aid needs to step up to the plate and offer adult flavors with viagra added! ;)
I think Pauler would go for the Turkey and Gravy soda
I’m sure she’s credited as a consultant on that recipe somewhere on the Jone’s website.
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Shhh, don’t tell Aunt Sandy. She wants to think she’ll be SOOOOO ORIGINAL when she does her special “Semi-Homemade Thanksgiving” special later this year and she pours the Jones Turkey & Gravy soda into a pitcher of vodka for “IT’S COCKTAIL TIME!” ;-)
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OK, seagulls? They’re germy scavengers that eat putrid, dead stuff. Why would anyone get the idea to stick them in a bottle & ferment them in the sun to produce a beverage? Doesn’t this make people sick? Or does the alcohol kill the bacteria? Still, how could anyone think this would taste good? Just…WHY?
I’ve seen the blood beverage here in good ol New Jersey. They got it at this store called Hot Topic, which is a punk, goth and rock store. They sold the blood bag in honor of Twilight.
“They got it at this store called Hot Topic, which is a punk, goth and rock store. They sold the blood bag in honor of Twilight.”
Why am I not surprised? When I was in high school (in Cali), we always joked about the “wannabe rebel, emo kids” who’d hang around Hot Topic b/c they thought they’d look more “bad@ss”. The faux blood fits perfectly in there.
A Hot Topic without fake (or edible) blood isn’t really a “Hot Topic” now is it?
All the mall goths would sh*t themselves silly if the walked into Hot Topic and DIDN’T see fake blood.
*Gags*
Oh, FNWH! =[ You’re losing your edge. The only channels not showing infomercials this morning were the food ones, and the first thing I thought of was this blog.
Drinking snake bile out of a buck’s penis would be heaven compared to Rachel Ray’s recipes.
“Drinking snake bile out of a buck’s penis would be heaven compared to Rachel Ray’s recipes.”
So would it be high nirvana compared to Aunt Sandy Lee’s “recipes”? I just watched her on “Semi-Homemade Sh*t”… She was “catering a wedding”, meaning she was about to crash it and force all her chemically imbalanced, pre-made “food” down the poor family’s throats. And of course, pretty soon “It’s COCKTAIL TIME”, I was frightened by some pitcher full of blood (perhaps that blood pictured above, spiked with vodka!), and Aunt Sandy slurred to me, “Theez suuuuuprrr smmmmpl russipeez can b fund on FoooooodNutwrrrk.com!”
I’m still shell-shocked to see Aunt Sandy drunk so early in the morning. ;-)
Consider myself CULTURED! I really enjoy your posts like this (the mcdonalds and icecream flavor ones too) because honestly, it’s really the only exposure my closed foodie mind gets to the things outside of my 25 mile radius.
But, I am still sticking to Pepsi!
You know, the bird nest soda can’t be worse than honey. Think about it.
I’m surprised Guy Fieri hasn’t yet utilized the deer penis wine for “Guy’s Big Bite”. This would be right up his alley.
Geoduck marinated in deer penis wine FTW! ;)
Yummo!
Me thinks Jillian has been hangin’ with Andrew Zimmern!
Oh joy, it’s Rachael Ray time! She’s making yet another “stoup”. Now wouldn’t some mice wine and frog juice make a nice, flavorful base? YUM-O!
JFC BABY MICE?!!
I used to keep mice as pets. This whole business makes me want to throw up, a lot! Also, if you have to eat or drink animal whatever to get a rise to your dick, give it up! Or take it to the dick factory for a make over. Gah!
The bird nest soda has a companion- bird nest soup. You can also buy the straight birds nest to make your own goodies with- and they can be expensive. And fyi, its NOTHING like honey in flavor. Its disgusting. Well, to my american palate it is. Whatever you THINK a bird nest would taste like- that’s EXACTLY what it tastes like!
Jesus Christ on a cracker that’s disgusting. I just threw up in my mouth a little.
The Bird’s Nest Soda is a disgusting enough concept, but the crowning touch is “With Jelly Bits.” Somehow, I don’t think we’re talkin’ Smuckers here.
wtf is wrong with people? leave the snakes alone. they won’t get too many of the baby mice, don’t worry… :o
Andrew Zimmern just climaxed three times reading this post.
The bird’s nest soda isn’t bad actually. Vaguely sweet and weirdly refreshing. I didn’t struggle with the texture either, it was sort of like egg drop soup… okay, that’s still basically snot-like. Find it at your local Asian market!
And people thought that vegetarian food was weird…
Okay you guys need to stop hating on bird’s nest. It tastes like cartilage, which pretty much absorbs the flavour of whatever it’s cooked in. In this case, it will taste like rock sugar. Bird’s nest itself is bird spit, which isn’t that big of a deal. Furthermore, that beverage is from Singapore, not China. Not every thing that has Chinese words on it is from China. Also, the stuff from a can isn’t real bird’s nest. It clearly says “flavour” on the side. And those “jelly bits” are REAL gelatin pieces.
Tried this last year from like http://www.geocities.jp/hongkong_bird_nest/index_e.htm . Tastes really good… yeah, I thought it was gross at first, but wow, you won’t regret it.