I don’t really have any deep thoughts about this or anything (except I don’t think I’d like a gimlet made with rattlesnake vodka), but things have been a little. . .tense. . .around here lately, and I thought I’d inject some light-hearted idiocy.
There was a thread here just a few days ago about whiskey with a giant centipede in it, and a link to a page offering assorted other whiskeys containing 'pedes, venomous snakes, and scorpions, singly or in combination. Reminds me strongly of the jars that lined the walls of my junior high biology classroom. People are fucking weird.
What a strange thing to do. The news story sounds like the arrests were for selling unlicensed, untaxed alcohol though, not because it was reptile-laced.
Habu Sake is big over here. I personally don’t need any poisonous dead animals floating in my drink, thank you very much, but people spend big money on this stuff.
I’d go out on a limb and guessed if you stocked it, then promoted it properly, you’d have people lined up around the block for it!
After all, Head On is proof-positive that a lot of people will buy anything that’s promoted correctly.