Then he'd hand the snake to someone in the back who would quickly prepare your soup. With the dead snake hanging the man would slice it open from top to bottom with a quick slash, rip off the skin, then yank out the entrails (this is easier to do from an IV pole). A man would bring out big venomous snakes caught in the mountains, kill them, and hang them by the head from a contraption that looked like an IV pole. Those anti-venoms exist throughout the snake's body and are supposedly powerful detoxifiers that can remove all kinds of toxins from the human body. The reason for this claim was that poisonous snakes contain anti-venoms that can neutralize toxins and prevent the snake from poisoning itself. The soup was said to detoxify your body and promote beautiful skin and overall good health. About midway down the alley there was a vendor who made a particularly excellent snake soup simmered with various Chinese medicinal herbs. "Snake Alley" is a narrow street full of food stalls selling dishes with snake (obviously) as the main ingredient. The Night Market has different alleys, each with its own personality. Whatever the reason there were a lot of poisonous snakes and for a long time no one knew what to do with them. Local legend has it that highly venomous snakes were released from a Japanese wartime experiment that had gone awry. In those days the mountains around Taipei were crawling with countless venomous snakes. When I was a kid in the 1970s I lived in Taiwan and my parents and I would go to Taipei's famous "Night Market" on the weekends. Try it sometime, it makes you much more respectful and appreciative of the luxuries we enjoy these days. I probably have more respect for what it means to eat meat than you do because I don't have some middle man prepare my food for me. I have SO much more respect for the animals that I eat and so much more respect for what it means to take an animal's life so I can survive BECAUSE I do the dirty work for nearly all of my meals. How is it better to buy it at the store? You didn't have to find it or kill it or skin it or clean it. You sound like you have a problem with them killing something so they can eat it. So good for them for killing their meals and practicing the art of self reliance. Even when I have enough meat in the freezer to make it through the next month, I STILL go out and hunt because it is a skill that I have to constantly practice at. About 75% of what I eat is something that I have killed myself. 2 It's apparently fine to cook and eat poisonous snakes- cooking is sufficient to inactivate any venomous residue. ![]() ![]() ![]() You dont want to eat a snake dosed up with warfarin or other toxin 2. 1 Note that snakes can also die from eating poisoned rodents. A bit of internet research identified it as a probable Black Rat Snake, a non-poisonous Indiana resident. Just be sensible, and make sure to clean yourself (and the snake parts) up properly. If you just want the skin, the time and mechanism of death isn't as relevant. Since we knew both time and cause 1 of death, and refrigerated the carcass promptly, it was safe to eat. ![]() The snake in this Instructable was run over by a car Eric found it a couple minutes later, its heart still beating, in the process of expiring by the side of the road. Snakes do a fine job keeping the world free of unnecessary rodents don't kill them unless absolutely necessary! That said, if you do kill a snake, or find one dead, don't let it go to waste. This is probably going to be the hard part.
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