We humans love to intoxicate ourselves from time to time,
especially over the weekend, and then come out of it with a colossal hangover
to nurse all through Monday. However, these few borderline illegal and
downright absurd drinks exist only to melt your brain in all the wrong ways.
1. Absinthe: 
A drink made famous by pop-culture is known worldwide as
being the brand ambassador of illegal drinks all around the world. Made out of
wormwood and anise, it is considered to be a highly alcoholic beverage.
Supposedly, it drove people crazy and caused epilepsy and tuberculosis, and
hence was banned in the 19th century. Albeit, due to recent changes in the
rules and regulations of food and beverages, there has been a revival of
Absinthe culture and it is back in the market.
2. Mezcal:
Mezcal is a distilled alcoholic beverage made of a form of
agave plant from Mexico.
What makes it special? As a marketing gimmick in the 1940's, the producers
started putting a worm in the bottle, a larval form of the moth Hypopta Agavis
that lives on the agave plant. The trend caught on and to this very day Mezcal
is sold with a visually disturbing worm inside it!
3. Scorpion Vodka:
To everyone who considers vodka to be the ladies’ poison,
think again. Vodka is a strong concoction, and the Russian’s love it. Albeit
this time around they’ve taken it to the next level. Scorpion Vodka has a
full-length scorpion preserved vodka in it. And is used as an aphrodisiac in
south-east Asia and for medicinal uses such as
back and muscle pain. Oh, and the scorpion is edible, along with its stinger.
4. Three Lizard Liquor:
Want to feel powerful and avoid evil spirits from messing
with you? Just have a sip of this uber-awesome drink, a liquor stuffed with
three lizards! The Three Lizard Liquor originated in China
and Vietnam.
It is believed that the lizards are a source of energy and are capable of
repelling evil spirits and are hence consumed by the masses.
5. Snake Wine:
Yet another drink originating from Vietnam, this
one's a rice wine with a snake in it, a very venomous snake to be precise. The
distinctive taste doesn’t come from the snake's meat, but the poison itself.
Thankfully, the ethanol kills the venomous effect of the venom and reveals the
protein-rich essence of it. This one too is considered to have various
medicinal qualities.
6. Baby Mice Wine:
Hate rodents? Despise them? Want to render their existence meaningless?
Here's a solution. Stuff all the live baby mice that you can grab into a wine,
maximum three days old, mind you. Let them drown till their miniature lungs are
filled with wine, and leave them for fermentation for a year, and voila! You
have your very own Baby Mice Wine, and you have a mice-free home too. Radical
indeed. This one originates from China, and like others, has
medicinal qualities.
7. Seagull Wine:
This one has to be the manliest drink around. Invented by
the Eskimos to brave the cold arctic weather, this one is made by mutilating a
seagull, chopping it into pieces or storing it whole in a bottle of water, and
leaving it in the sun for a prolonged period of time till it ferments.
8. Purple Drank
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8. Purple Drank
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8. Purple Drank
If you’re familiar with Rich Boy’s “Throw Some D’s,” you
might already know about the “S-Y-R-U-P” craze that’s taken hold in the
Southern hip-hop community. But just in case: They’re talking about purple
drank, a mixture of prescription-strength codeine and promethazine cough syrup
flavored with something sweet, like Sprite or Jolly Ranchers. While that may
sound charming, the drank-related deaths of DJ Screw and Pimp C will with any
luck scare the kids into realizing that it is not, in fact, as cool as it
sounds.
9. Four Loko
Already dubbed “badness in a can” by Harvard University
Health Services and the subject of a breathless Frank Bruni essay, Four Loko is
a so-called “alcopop” containing up to 12.5 percent alcohol, the equivalent of
five cups of coffee, and some nasty fruit-flavored soda. The potent combo has
led to several hospitalizations, but we doubt that’ll deter college kids from
buying it.
10. Unpasteurized Milk
It might be true that pasteurized milk gives you indigestion
and rushes kids through puberty before they learn how to tie their shoes, but
the alternative is much worse: Before the pasteurization process was discovered
during the industrial revolution, milk was a harbor for all sorts of diseases
from salmonella to tuberculosis.
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