The bite of snake wine in a new perspective

Snake wine is quite the delicacy over here in Vietnam. Almost anywhere you go, you can see snakes pickled in alcohol waiting for some unlucky fellow to come along and drink its bathwater... And apparently some are more unlucky than we think...

The background to the blog entry that I linked to above, is a near bet Mike and I took over whether this story was true or not. I obviously was adamant that it was a farce but Mike persisted with his story and dug up the truth... Check it out...