# India to Launch a Cow-Urine Soft Drink **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2009, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645 "2009-02-13T03:23:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/21 "2009-02-13T20:06:53Z")
What is the usual method of pee consumption? Do you have it chilled, Room temp, or hot n’ fresh? Is it served in a cup, glass or mug? If in a mug, are you supposed to put a head on it? And do you chug it at your table or go to the bar and have a few Pee-Shooters? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/22 "2009-02-13T20:27:36Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Is it served in a cup, glass or mug? Typically on a flat rock. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/23 "2009-02-13T20:28:00Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > What is the usual method of pee consumption? Do you have it chilled, Room temp, or hot n’ fresh? Is it served in a cup, glass or mug? If in a mug, are you supposed to put a head on it? And do you chug it at your table or go to the bar and have a few Pee-Shooters? All that just so you could set up “Pee-Shooters?” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/24 "2009-02-13T20:33:27Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > What is the usual method of pee consumption? I perfer doing cow stands myself. Right out of the tapper baby! ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/25 "2009-02-13T21:00:08Z")
Now I’m curious about what the rules are. Would pee from a Nebraska dairy cow be considered as effective as pee from a Hindu cow? Could Western nations be making a profit by exporting their excess cow pee to India? Is there some sort of “kosher certification” equivalent for cow pee? This has the potential to backfire horribly for the RSS. If people realize that there’s money in it, India might soon be awash in Western-owned gourmet cow pee franchises, selling Foamy Hereford Energy Drinks and Argentina Black Angus Crappucinos for 7 bucks apiece. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/26 "2009-02-13T21:03:55Z")
It’s all been downhill since Coke bought out and changed the Thums Up formula to be less anise-y, anyhoodle. It’s like f’cking with Moxie. Don’t do it! It’s supposed to be kinda gross, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/27 "2009-02-13T21:26:21Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > All that just so you could set up “Pee-Shooters?” 🙂 Are you pissed at me? **Terrifel** , we could have variations of the California cheese commercials: Good pee comes from happy cows! Or: Got Pee? They could show a bunch of celebrities with a yellow line on their upper lip. ---
**Author:** ![longPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@longPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longPath)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/28 "2009-02-13T21:28:32Z")
Not meant as a hijack, but the product called “AmealPeptide” on this page, appears to packaged rather creatively. > [@TokyoPlayer](#): > > Funny, I thought that you were going to talk about the [Japanese drink](http://www.calpis.net/index.html)which in Japanese sounds like “Cow piss” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/29 "2009-02-14T02:38:10Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > The cow urine thing actually doesn’t really bother me. I’ve heard stranger things. This is what bothers me: > > Plus, India is not just Hindus. Oh, of course not. That’s why I said there could be a billion people lining up for a bottle instead of saying 1.2 billion. Although saying 1 billion of the 1.2 billion were Hindu was a pure guesstimate on my part, a number pulled out of my ass. But India does seem to lend itself to some wonderful lunacy at times. An Indian I know recently returned to Bangkok from a visit home, and he told me a great story that was making the local news. This guy was sentenced to death and placed on death row. Then they forgot about him. His execution date came, but no one remembered to execute him. That was 15 years ago. He lived day in and day out for 15 years hoping against hope that no one would remember to kill him. Finally, someone came across something in the records that showed he should have been executed 15 years ago. So they marched him right out and hanged him! Poor guy, but great story. I realize the practice of drinking urine is probably a bit old-fashioned and out of date in India, but wasn’t there one prime minister who drank a cup of his own urine every day and credited that with his living into his 90s? I know even in the US, there is a small but fairly vocal (for their size) movement in favor of this. EDIT: Ah, found him: [Morarji Desai](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morarji_Desai). Lived to age 99. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/30 "2009-02-14T04:39:47Z")
Or you could have looked at Post No. 14. It’s not “old-fashioned.” That would imply that it was common at some time in the past. The practice has always been marginal. Who was it who said that given sufficient time, the improbable becomes inevitable? It’s kind of like that in India. Whatever weirdness you’re looking for, there has been enough time and enough people such that you’ll find someone doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/31 "2009-02-14T21:07:24Z")
Maybe this soft drink could be the featured beverage at the next [World Conference On Urine Therapy.](http://www.wise-mens-web.com/ut_3_conf.html) Although [your own is always best](http://www.curezone.com/forums/f.asp?f=109). ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/32 "2009-02-14T22:10:03Z")
I love this board. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/33 "2009-02-14T23:33:31Z")
\*I’d like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony. I’d like to buy the world a Cow Urine Soda, and keep it company. It’s the REAL thing, Cow Urine Soda.\* ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/34 "2009-02-14T23:35:41Z")
Can’t taste any more piss-like than Red Bull ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/35 "2009-02-15T02:20:27Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > Or you could have looked at Post No. 14. Oops! There he is there, too! I wonder if drinking a cup of my urine a day would improve my eyesight. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/36 "2009-02-15T03:13:24Z")
Unfortunately, [Pee Cola](http://www.lonelyplanet.com/tonywheeler/Signs%20-%20Pee%20Cola.jpg) is already a brand name in India. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/37 "2009-02-15T13:45:59Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > Or you could have looked at Post No. 14. > > It’s not “old-fashioned.” That would imply that it was common at some time in the past. The practice has always been marginal. > > Who was it who said that given sufficient time, the improbable becomes inevitable? It’s kind of like that in India. Whatever weirdness you’re looking for, there has been enough time and enough people such that you’ll find someone doing it. I’ve never quit bought that defense for big countries or populations compared to say the USA. Yeah, if you have 10 to 100 times our population your :smack: stories will be way more than ours. But a factor of 3 or 4 ? Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/38 "2009-02-15T17:56:15Z")
> [@Aankh](#): > > So, on a more serious note, Hindus today generally do not drink cow urine, or any sort of urine, for that matter. I’m sure some do partake of the stuff, because there does exist a traditional background for the practice among certain sects, but they’re a small minority. I know through my grandmother, though, that cow urine is used in some traditional medicines. It’s too bad this isn’t a serious trend. If it were, it might lead to a way to make tending cows for a living somewhat profitable again and I could quit my job and get the hell out of the city. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/39 "2009-02-16T03:34:45Z")
> [@Aankh](#): > > Clearly they’re fishing for publicity with this press release but I think the timing is odd. They usually release tons of anti-Valentine’s, ‘O thou corrupting West’ sort of stuff around now. Maybe it’s related to a recent incident where some of their ilk savagely beat up a Hindu woman drinking in a pub. Sort of a ‘REAL Hindu women drink cow piss’ publicity thing? I wonder. You’ll be glad to hear they said on the news that on Valentine’s Day, ladies in India were throwing pink panties at some of these extremists. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645/40 "2009-02-16T20:45:29Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > I’ve never quit bought that defense for big countries or populations compared to say the USA. > > Yeah, if you have 10 to 100 times our population your :smack: stories will be way more than ours. > > But a factor of 3 or 4 ? Not so much. I think my previous comments indicate that it’s not _only_ population size that’s a factor here. Except for certain aspects of individual freedom, Western society is far less diverse and far more conforming than Indian society (feel free to discuss this paradox). Just five minutes on the street of any of America’s major cities as opposed to five minutes on the street of any Indian city – you simple see a lot more diversity in almost every way in India. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/india-to-launch-a-cow-urine-soft-drink/485645.md?page=3)