[Magdalen] Snake juice.

[James Oppenheimer]

How could anybody eat this adorable guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMT1FLzEn9I

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> 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)
> >>
> >>
> >
>