[Magdalen] Snake juice.

[Joseph Cirou]

I believe there are restaurants in  Hong Kong where you can eat a snake
dinner--I don't think it is cobra. It is some very large black snake, a
delicacy to some. I was unaware that reptiles were an part of Vietnamese
cuisine until I read your post.

Now I have eaten alligator--a staple of Cajun cuisine. Since I really like
lizards, and had two as pets, they are not part of my diet.



Joe

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Like I said, I'm not questioning your having it, I am deploring the
> general practice of killing creatures for   what I would call are frivolous
> reasons, whether cobra vodka or tiger wine or ivory or rhinoceros horn or
> monkey brains or snake blood or .....
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> On 10/27/2014 9:29 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon wrote:
>
>> Some cultures believe that certain animal carcasses can impart vitality.
>> Part of the illegal tiger trade in China is for "tiger wine", often only
>> with the bones, but sometimes with the entire carcass, only skinned.
>>
>> Why did I do it?  It was there, and my buddy was buying.  Now I can say I
>> did it.  He knows it'll never happen again.
>> _________________________________________
>> "O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
>> distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
>> - The Rev Mr John Donne
>> (in a not-so-chipper moment)
>>
>>
>