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Posted by: STONERS 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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A rattlesnake rancher who calls himself Bayou Bob found a new way to make money: Stick a rattler inside a bottle of vodka and market the concoction as an "ancient Asian elixir." But Bayou Bob Popplewell's bright idea appears to have landed him on the wrong side of the law, because he has no liquor license.

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STONERS5 months, 2 weeks ago

"Popplewell said he will fight the charges. His intent, he said, is not to sell an alcoholic beverage but a healing tonic. He said he has customers of Asian descent who believe the concoction has medicinal properties."
"It's almost a spiritual thing," said Popplewell, 63."

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  STONERS5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  "But alcohol commission agent Scott Jones pointed out that investigators confiscated 429 bottles of snake vodka and one bottle of snake tequila. At $23 a bottle, that's almost $10,000 worth of reptilian booze."
  OMG!!! What next!!!!
  
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  globalwarmer5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  I get that that spiritual feeling when I drink vodka too.
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    GHOSTWHOWALKS5 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    Good thing they never looked into grandpa's little house. Brewed some good liquid. Not only could you fall down after a few sips but it also was one great potion for cleaning metal and 0ther things. :)
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texangelwings5 months, 2 weeks ago

Santo, Tx.????? Unbelievable, that poison from rattler could kill a person!
Thanks STONERS! My two sons use to play baseball against the Santo team! Small world!
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  STONERS5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  WOW!!! It really is...
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    texangelwings5 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    LOL, yes it is..!!!
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      STONERS5 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      ;~] you crack me up ;~] Thanks!!!
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  Jaydee405 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Most venoms only work in the blood stream and not when ingested, kinda like the wife's cooking.
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    texangelwings5 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    Jaydee, Normally not, I was thinking about a person with an ulcer or cavities being dangerous, if venom is ingested.
    Ref; http://www.americaswetlandresources.com/wildlif...
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      Jaydee405 months, 1 week ago
      
      Could be something to it at that.
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TheRealizer5 months, 2 weeks ago

Hell that is just a pickled snake, not bottled with bootleg booze. I would like to have one for a decoration in the office.
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  STONERS5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  In the office maybe but not in my drink.... ;~]
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    TheRealizer5 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    Yes-Not in the drink.
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      STONERS5 months, 2 weeks ago
      
      lol!!!
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        BronxBomber5 months, 2 weeks ago
        
        I'd rather take a bullet than drink that reptillian rot gut whiskey.
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        slyboy25 months, 2 weeks ago
        
        Mmmmm...fermenting reptile......
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        BronxBomber5 months, 2 weeks ago
        
        Mmmmmm...Colt 45.
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        Jaydee405 months, 2 weeks ago
        
        Now where I live the snakes are not poisonous but some of the people are. We have this one kinda daredevil who when presented with a six inch baby snake that was alive simply smiled at every one of us and swallowed it whole and chased it with a beer. We all just kind of left after that, same guy rode his horse right into the kitchen of his new house, destroyed the hard wood flores but got the reaction he wanted.
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ezus5 months, 2 weeks ago

LOL
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1-2-Oscar5 months, 2 weeks ago

Popplewell's claim that a rattlesnake in alcohol is an "ancient Asian elixir" is not going to fly before the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Some one is bound to point out that rattlesnakes are not found in Asia.
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normallysilent5 months, 2 weeks ago

Everyone knows that the recipe for the "ancient Asian elixir" uses a Cobra not a rattlesnake.
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  tkyrchncs5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  I have a bottle from India, with a cobra, brought as a gift from a friend years ago. How he got it thru customs is a mystery to me! Nobody has ever had the nerve to take the cap off!
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    Jaydee405 months, 2 weeks ago
    
    I wonder why? Imagine some guy in India making this stuff saying after ten thousand bottles made maybe this it the one someone will drink the crazy MFs.
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getreal15 months, 2 weeks ago

Popplewell must be on some more of an ego trip from too much Snake venom.
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globalwarmer5 months, 2 weeks ago

Just when you thought snake oil salesmen were a thing of the past.
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Justice4All5 months, 2 weeks ago

This is still popular in Vietnam. Except they use a Cobra.
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  KMFDM5 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  I was just about to say the same thing. Depending on the size and quality, a bottle of it can ranged from the hundreds to thousands of dollars on the black market because it is illegal to bring into this country last time I checked. This rancher is a moron digging himself a deep ditch. If he thinks the fines he is getting for selling alchohol with out a license is bad, he could be facing charges from the FDA for trying to sell it as a health tonic. Or even from the DEA for trying to distribute a possible control substance. If his lawyer was any good (if he is smart enough to have one), he would tell him to shut up and plea bargin.
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Dicax_Maximus5 months, 2 weeks ago

Damm, and here was me thinking that Russian "bootleg" vodka was bad.......
Fangs for the story Stone !!!!!
ROTFLMAO....
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Wolfie20075 months, 2 weeks ago

This was a great story Stoners thanks for posting.
In the state where I live a few years ago a pointy headed bureaucrat traded some of our great turkeys to Texas for some rattlers. Seems, according to this bureaucrat, that rattlers were becoming endangered here. The problem, we, the folks who live here, had been trying for years to endanger them. lol
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  Jaydee405 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Sound like you need to change targets,,,,,lol good luck.
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Shadowolf5 months, 2 weeks ago

...in Thailand, and Singapore; these would command a high price for novelty...I've had cobra stew before; not bad... but rattlesnakes are legend around the world as the only snake that warns before it strikes...
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ind065 months, 2 weeks ago

Your first hint might be "Bayou Bob", which, if memory serves, is not a common Asian name.
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2sidestoeverything5 months, 1 week ago

Interesting not something I would want. It would be interesting to know how many people would have bought that stuff.
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kathy02025 months, 1 week ago

I love this wonderful article so much. It's really nice, thank you.
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wwwoliondorcom5 months, 1 week ago

I didn't know that somebody was selling this in US but I got the authentic snake wine from this website and it features a real Cobra snake
http://www.asiansnakewine.com
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Kleijn6795 months ago

Great news. Thank you for sharing with us.
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