“Just like baby mouse wine, snake liquors from South East Asia are also considered cures for a variety of ailments, including impotence, back and muscle pain and hair loss (below left). These drinks usually contain highly poisonous snakes, such as cobras.”
“If snakes aren’t really for you, how about scorpions and spiders? This distilled rice grain vodka from Thailand, complete with a farm raised scorpion, is banana flavoured and sweetened with sugar cane.”
www.darkroastedblend.com/2010/07/worlds-strongest-drinks-strange-liquor.html
The only thing remotely close to these that I’ve had has been Dos Gusanos, which is Tequila with two whole worms inside.
I’d so try this.
Captain Aubrey,’ said Stephen, clapping his book to the moment he saw Jack in the cockpit. ‘I have a grave complaint to make.’
‘I am concerned to hear it,’ said Jack, peering about in the gloom for what he dreaded to see.
‘They have been at my asp. I tell you, sir, they have been at my asp. I stepped into my cabin for a book not three minutes ago, and what did I see? My asp drained -drained, I say.’
‘Tell me the butcher’s bill; then I will attend to your asp.’
‘Bah – a few scratches, a man with his forearm moderately scored, a couple of splinters to draw – nothing of consequence – mere bandaging. All you will find in the sick-bay is an obstinate gleet with low fever and a reduced inguinal hernia: and that forearm. Now my asp -,
‘No dead? No wounded?’ cried Jack, his heart leaping up.
‘No, no, no. Now my asp -‘ He had brought it aboard in its spirits of wine; and at some point in very recent time a criminal hand had taken the jar, drunk up all the alcohol and left the asp dry, stranded, parched.
‘I am truly sorry for it,’ said Jack. ‘But will not the fellow die? Must he not have an emetic?’
‘He will not: that is what is so vexing. The bloody man, the more than Hun, the sottish rapparee, he will not die. It was the best double-refined spirits of wine. ‘Pray come and breakfast with me in the cabin; a pint of coffee and a well-broiled chop between you and the asp will take away the sting – will appease… ‘ In his gaiety of heart, Jack was very near a witticism; he felt it floating there, almost within reach; but somehow it escaped and he confined himself to laughing as cheerfully as Stephen’s vexation would with decency allow and observing, ‘The damned Villain ran clean away from us; and I am afraid we shall have but a tedious time making our way back.I wonder, I wonder whether Dillon managed to pick up the settee, or whether she ran for it, too.’
-Patrick O’Brian – _Master & Commander_