I knew nothing about snake wine until the above photo—it’s kinda pretty in its weird colorful way, isn’t?—started popping up on my Facebook timeline. I noticed a lot of people were calling shenanigans in the comments, saying the photo was fake. Well, it’s not.

“The drink was first recorded to be used in China during the Western Zhou dynasty (771 BC)” according to Wikipedia.

The snakes, preferably venomous ones, are not usually preserved for their meat but to have their “essence” and snake venom dissolved in the liquor. However, the snake venom is denatured by the ethanol; its proteins are unfolded and therefore inactive.

Snake wine can be found in China, Vietnam and Southeast Asia. If you can’t travel there to get your mitts on this exotic hooch, you can order bottles online at Asian Snake Wine.
 

 

 
More photos after the jump…
 

 
The detail in this “flapper” peach cake soaked in Bourbon by Karen Portaleo/Highland Bakery is astonishing.

This cake is simply too beautiful to eat. I’d feel guilty slicing into this tasty-looking masterpiece, named “Zelda.”
 

 
Via Super Punch

 
Etsy shop Vintage Confections makes these wonderfully tasty-looking planet lollipops. The backs of these spacey suckers “are black flecked with silver edible glitter that simulate stars.”

They’re made-to-order (you need to specify what flavors—and planets—you want) for $17.50.

Via KMFW

 
I like these Luchador bottle openers by Ariel Rojo and Andres Lhima for the Kikkerland Mexico Design Challenge.

You can get ‘em on Amazon.
 

 

 
Via Super Punch

 
New York Shitty spotted this well, shitty pay phone on Wythe Avenue in Brooklyn.

What the heck is that moulded around the phone? Salami?

Who would put this anywhere near their face? Yuck!
 

 

 
TOHJIRO is the founder of the Japanese AV (“adult video”) studio Dogma, which specializes in producing “extreme” fetish videos including bondage and various unorthodox S&M themes. He is the porn auteur behind such fucked up mayhem as “10 Year Special Lessons In Secret Technique Men’s Bible Vol. 2,” “Female Meat Toilet,” “Vomit Enema Ecstasy X” and the whimsically titled, “Underarm Hair Drug.”

TOHJIRO has been called the “greatest porn director in the world.” He has also been described as a “sick, impotent freak.”

His latest film, “Maple Flowers Bloom 7: RARE FETISH” takes the current worldwide crazy for bacon on everything to its logical conclusion. Well logical if you happen to be a celebrated Japanese pervert, I suppose.

Here’s a direct translation of the description as it appeared on YouTube (they took it down after a few days last year). I’m guessing this gets pretty close to the original meaning(!):

Work is that every problem in the sensational topics covered in entrails of Sanae Aso SEX of the resurrection for the first time in 17 years to get maple flowers that bloom seven abnormal Queen. Cooperation of flowers Mon familiar with Fechizumu internal organs to stage a space suspicious the image of the original force, the interior of the uterus, chair restraint, responsibility dissecting table winding meat body tied malformation bandage, such as hanging lesbian aquarium giblets, upside down bondage intestine, play spooky engaged to be. Flower maple played a perfect girl delusion dream strange possessed desire regression womb, even in continuous blame grotesque, reached ecstasy, sometimes fall into a trance sometimes, out only exposes the sexual perversion with hidden, wrapped in a strange beauty and Eros.

The sensual beauty of organ modeling captured by the camera is really striking. Offal is just her costume color. Ekusutori -ーsystem! Unbelievable! Surprise and excitement. Serious uneasiness. Birth of a masterpiece of heresy was larger than the previous scale-up. To witness the genius of director TOHJIRO, can not help but groan involuntarily. After 17 years Turned Upside down by the sickest was Adult Video in history, Genius-Hentai director is finally back with His MOST Tohjiro Infamous, incredible, anyone’s Beyond Imagination Project: Rare Fetish. Proudly presented by Dogma, a Festival of viscera, Bowels, raw Meat and Extreme SM & Fetish play, featuring the beautiful Fuuka Nanasaki, at Her Best erotic performance. Buy its digital version via Dogma’s Official Website! (no Animal was Harmed in the Making of this video, since all the meat and viscera came from professional meat shop).

BEFORE YOU PRESS PLAY, I should probably warn you that you cannot unsee what awaits you in this video. Nothing X-rated here, and no nudity either, but please make sure that you really want to see this before you hit play. That is all.
 

 
Thank you to a friend who probably doesn’t want his name associated with this stuff!

 
People turned out to support Chic-fil-A this week because of their principles and beliefs, that much should be obvious by now. Less obvious is just what those principles and beliefs are, exactly.

Well, here’s our chance to find out, thanks to YouTube uploader Liberalegg. She describes this video in her own words:

I ask people at Chick-fil-A some simple questions. At least… I thought they were simple enough, until they tried to answer.

In terms of the name calling, this video was not intended as hard-hitting journalism. It was just something funny for my friends, I never expected so many people to see it. I think the video would have been more effective had I allowed them to speak for themselves.

I apologize for the background noise; captions are available (just press the little cc button at the bottom right of the player).

Indeed, this video IS better with captions, as the sound is slightly off in parts. And also, because it means we get to hear and see the COMPLETE IDIOCY of the people involved in this “movement.”

There’s not much more to be said, as these people are saying it all themselves. Just sit back and have a good laugh:
 

 
Thanks to Darla Gayle and Honey Mahogany.

 
Philadelphia ice cream shop Little Baby’s Ice Cream has a rather strange marketing ploy to grab your attention: autocannibalism. It’s memorable, I’ll give it that!

Apparently no bath salts were used in the filming of this commercial. I’m glad that it’s not “Little Babies Ice Cream.” I was worried there, at first.
 

 
One more commercial after the jump…
 

 
If you’re a charter member of the 1% (or just want to be cheeky) might I suggest the Louis Vuitton waffle maker by Andrew Lewicki?

Via Booooooom!

 
Yeah, it’s a photoshop job by Brian Miller, but still…someone’s gotta make this happen, amirite?!

Washington City Paper writes:

Guy Picciotto’s ice cream-eating motherfucker screed, immortalized in the Fugazi documentary Instrument, gets trucked.

And yes, Miller knows Picciotto wasn’t in Minor Threat, he just “couldn’t resist the pun.”

Thanks, Jeff Albers!