Mice Rice Wine
Posted by Qais Fulton
Being a man of unfortunate constitution as well as the son of a doctor fearing organi-hippy I’ve been subjected and witness to many strange remedies. Thankfully my well meaning yet strange parents never heard of this disgusting cure and I avoided suffering the indignities of being made to drink a bottle of wine with dead mice floating in it.
I often wonder how people come up with cures such as this. Where is the leap of logic between time tested herbs and a bottle of rice wine made to sit for a year while the dead mice pickle correctly, and what malady did it cure to lead to the conclusion that it actually works?
Baby Mouse Wine [Cynical C]
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Posted at 4:16 pm on October 19, 2007
8 Comments -
I guess the alcohol sterilizes anything in the mice, so it’s probably not actively bad for you, but somehow I doubt that’s really good for you either.
Comment by chesh — October 19, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
Oh god. There is not NEARLY enough alcohol in wine to prevent those from putrefying. Note the greenish tinge to the liquid.
Comment by Arielle — October 19, 2007 @ 5:38 pm
I should think that the cure does more harm than the malady in this case.
Comment by chammy — October 20, 2007 @ 3:37 am
“Where is the leap of logic between time tested herbs and a bottle of rice wine made to sit for a year while the dead mice pickle correctly, and what malady did it cure to lead to the conclusion that it actually works?”
I imagine it went something like this:
Patient: Doctor, I feel terrible. Have you got anything to cure me?
Doctor: Here’s something I’ve been working on: a bottle of wine with a bunch of dead mice in it. It’s an experimental treatment, but…
P: I’M BETTER! I’M BETTER!
Comment by Kesey — October 20, 2007 @ 6:57 am
My mother recounts, as a young daughter of a relatively wealthy plantation owner in Malaysia:
One evening during dinner, a baby mouse fell onto the table from one of the celing nooks. Under their mother’s instruction her eldest brother picked it up, marched to the kitchen, rinsed it and then swallowed it.
After that the children began fighting over who would get the next mouse.
Comment by Victoria — October 20, 2007 @ 7:31 am
Ask anyone who takes “traditional Chinese medicine” and then visit badscience.net
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“Where is the leap of logic between time tested herbs and a bottle of rice wine made to sit for a year while the dead mice pickle correctly, and what malady did it cure to lead to the conclusion that it actually works?” - Absolutely Right. While a good wine made out of proper recipe will always good for health these distorted ideas don’t cure anything. I totally agree with your points made in this posting.
Comment by Wine Maker Edward Jones — February 15, 2008 @ 2:35 am