In the last, tenth place of the top wasmare's milk, or kumiss, is a fairly popular drink in Central Asia. It is believed that kumiss helps with tuberculosis, bronchitis, colds, and anemia. At one time, resorts specializing in kumiss treatment were even popular. Ninth place goes to dog beer Kwispelbier, created by Dutchman Terry Berenden. The beer is specially designed for dogs and contains beef extract. "Once a year I go hunting in Austria and take my dog with me. Every evening my friends and I sit on the veranda, relax, and drink beer. That's when we decided that the dog had earned a sip, too," Berenden said. With this idea, the Dutchman approached a local brewery, where he offered to brew beer using his recipe.
Drinks of the World The brewers agreed, and the product,called Kwispelbier, has started to arrive in stores. The new pet drink is marketed as "beer for your best friend". But treating your "friends" won't come cheap - one bottle of Kwispelbier costs 1 euro 65 cents ($2.14), which is four times more expensive than, for example, a bottle of the well-known Heineken brand. At the same time, a dog that regularly drinks the new drink does not risk becoming a drunkard. The beer is non-alcoholic. Eighth place on the list is given to breast milk. But not real milk, but regular cow's milk, which one Korean company sells under the "brand". Tetra Pak packaging with this milk depicts a baby sucking on its mother's breast.
In seventh place is the drink againKorean-made drink with the aroma of kimchi, a traditional Korean dish made from cabbage and radish. The tonic drink based on ant juice is in sixth place. This drink is incredibly popular in China, with sales revenues reaching up to $100 million a year. It is believed that ant juice promotes longevity. However, ant tonic has not caught on in Europe and is almost impossible to find there. The computer game Final Fantasy inspired Square Enix and Suntory to create a special "mixture". A drink with the name of the popular game appeared in 2006 in a limited edition. It tasted like the famous Red Bull. This is fifth place.
Rice wine infused with baby mice,— fourth place in the hit parade. This Korean remedy is popular in villages as a panacea for all ailments. Not for the faint of heart, of course. And finally, the top three winners. Third place goes to rice wine infused with geckos. The drink is in demand in Chinese and Vietnamese villages, but it is simply impossible to imagine such a thing in Europe. The courageous American journalist Suzanne Donahue dared to taste it and compared the taste of gecko wine to cheap brandy, but the wine with geckos has a fantastic aftertaste that can be compared to sushi. (According to the rules for making this wine, the lizards are added to it while still alive).
Village winemakers believe that geckos havestrong energy, so the more geckos there are in a barrel of wine, the better: gecko wine supposedly improves vision and potency and relieves asthma. Steven Seagal with his famous energy drink Steven Seagal's Lightning Bolt is comfortably in second place. They say that Steven Seagal specially traveled to Asia in search of special components for his drink. As a result, it included the juice of Tibetan goya berries - the source of eternal youth, goya contains an increased amount of antioxidants, and Chinese cordyceps - a rare mushroom with a healing effect. Cordyceps is called the butterfly plant.
In the first year, it lives in the body of a butterfly larva andgoes through a phase of development as an insect, and then passes into the phase of development of a fungus, growing mycelium (root) into the soil, releases a fruit (body) to the surface of the earth and reproduces by spores, which in turn, infecting an insect (butterfly), continue the biological cycle. Due to the lack of resources and the difficulty of collecting, cordyceps is considered a very expensive delicacy. And the winner of the hit parade is Inuit seagull wine. A dead seagull is placed in a container of water, which is left for several days in direct sunlight. What sane person would dare to try this? Of course, Suzanne Donahue. "If you opened the carburetor of a Toyota and drank the liquid left in it, then you would imagine the taste of this terrible drink," she writes in the Associated Content publication about this drink. " But it must be said that the drink gets you drunk quite quickly and the hangover from it is incomparable to any torture.
