The Ultimate Single Malt
A drink that brings a new meaning to the phrase “tastes like piss” uses sugar from the urine of elderly diabetics. (via, where else, Slashdot)
September 1, 2010 9:54 am
Posted in: WTF?
49 Comments
49 Responses
Svensker - September 1, 2010 | 9:56 am · Link
Gah. Couldn’t you have waited until the afternoon to post this? Delicate morning stomach here.
kd bart - September 1, 2010 | 9:58 am · Link
Well, there was a reason for the Beck rally afterall.
John PM - September 1, 2010 | 9:59 am · Link
Soylent Schnaps is Seniors!
jwb - September 1, 2010 | 10:01 am · Link
@Svensker: Seriously!
Punchy - September 1, 2010 | 10:06 am · Link
College kids donate plasma, middle aged peeps donate old clothes, wrinklies pawning their piss. Huh. Brings a new meaning to “golden shower”.
Stephen1947 - September 1, 2010 | 10:07 am · Link
This is actually intended for John’s latest PayPal update – but for some reason I don’t get a comment box at the bottom of the thread. Anyway, when I read this yesterday – I definitely thought of John’s travails with a huge faceless bureaucorpocracy.
scav - September 1, 2010 | 10:08 am · Link
Premptive eek! but could somebody please attend to the slashout issue in the latest Paypal thread? I’m left hanging on the Egregious details of Experion and I think I’m going to enjoy them. Ta.
cleek » Pissky - September 1, 2010 | 10:14 am · Link
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Dr. O. W. Ludwig - September 1, 2010 | 10:15 am · Link
There are over twenty bodily fluids present in the human body and I am proud to say I have tasted all of them.
maya - September 1, 2010 | 10:23 am · Link
Now this puts recycling on the Cutty Sark edge.
Violet - September 1, 2010 | 10:24 am · Link
Can a front pager edit the Paypal thread below? Someone used a dash and fuked the thread.
MoeLarryAndJesus - September 1, 2010 | 10:30 am · Link
Finally, a drink fit for Dick Cheney.
Amir_Khalid - September 1, 2010 | 10:32 am · Link
For some reason, I’m reminded of Harry Dean Stanton in Young Doctors in Love.
Comrade Javamanphil - September 1, 2010 | 10:33 am · Link
@John PM: Win!
cleek - September 1, 2010 | 10:35 am · Link
can’t help but think of Dune and the “stillsuits“.
kindness - September 1, 2010 | 10:39 am · Link
So much for enjoying my morning coffee…..
Now I gotta clean up my keyboard & monitor.
AxelFoley - September 1, 2010 | 10:42 am · Link
lolwut?
R-Jud - September 1, 2010 | 10:43 am · Link
Heh. “Slash” is British slang for a piss.
Mike in NC - September 1, 2010 | 10:45 am · Link
@MoeLarryAndJesus:
The New Republican Congress will replace unemployment benefits and health care with a weekly ration of this stuff.
Athenae - September 1, 2010 | 10:45 am · Link
A British friend often refers to Fosters’ Australian beer as “Fosters: Australian for Piss.”
I think I’ll stick to my Balvenie Double Wood, thank you. When I finally finish this fucking book I’m working on I am going to buy myself another bottle and spend an evening pleasantly knackered. You can feel that shit in your fingertips.
A.
Loneoak - September 1, 2010 | 10:53 am · Link
The paradox here is that if the water is purified then there is no difference between using cane sugar and tap water. So why do it? Either it is still piss or it is just a gimmick.
WereBear - September 1, 2010 | 10:54 am · Link
@John PM: Love it!
slag - September 1, 2010 | 10:58 am · Link
You’re just a ray of sunshine this morning, mistermix. First, Sideshow Sarah and now another bucket of piss to shake our heads at.
PS Cleanup needed in comment 12 of the PayPal update thread.
scav - September 1, 2010 | 11:07 am · Link
@maya: so now I’m wondering about possible marketing possibilities in Cutty Snark . . .
Mnemosyne - September 1, 2010 | 11:10 am · Link
I may be overly sensitive, but this seems like a form of cannibalism to me.
Amir_Khalid - September 1, 2010 | 11:13 am · Link
If you drink this stuff, will you live longer?
Brachiator - September 1, 2010 | 11:18 am · Link
And, if you have a shot of this stuff along with a cup of Kopi Luwak coffee (collected from the feces of civets), is this the ultimate in recycling?
Rosalita - September 1, 2010 | 11:21 am · Link
Good God, not awake enough for THAT and it’s almost lunchtime… fucking HURL!
Martin - September 1, 2010 | 11:29 am · Link
@Mnemosyne: To paraphrase Sam Bee, it’s no different than having sex with someone who’s wearing a mask with your sister’s face on it.
Perfectly normal.
Shinobi - September 1, 2010 | 11:39 am · Link
I may never be able to drink whiskey again. Thanks a lot.
I’m now going to go gargle coca cola.
Amir_Khalid - September 1, 2010 | 11:41 am · Link
Former Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai was known for drinking a cup of his own piss every morning. According to Wikipedia, he took it up in his forties to cure his hemorrhoids, and apparently it worked. BTW, Desai lived to be 99.
But that’s different, of course, from taking sugar refined from an old diabetic’s wee.
WereBear - September 1, 2010 | 11:45 am · Link
@Amir_Khalid: I’m skeptical, because if that worked so well, wouldn’t everyone in India be doing it by now?
I assume the body knows what it wants to get rid of…
Besides, my great grandmother made it to 101, and I can be certain she did not resort to this.
schrodinger's cat - September 1, 2010 | 11:51 am · Link
@WereBear: Morarajee Desai was a bit of a crank. About the main post, I only have to say this eeewwwww….
joeyess - September 1, 2010 | 11:52 am · Link
That’s just fuckin’ wrong.
Amir_Khalid - September 1, 2010 | 12:04 pm · Link
@WereBear: I assure you, very few people in India shared Desai’s belief in urine therapy then (late 1970s), let alone now. When it was reported at the time, people everywhere thought this practice of his was weird and gross.
kommrade reproductive vigor - September 1, 2010 | 12:10 pm · Link
And I thought Old Grand-Dad was just the name of a whiskey, not an ingredient.
Svensker - September 1, 2010 | 12:16 pm · Link
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
win
Xenos - September 1, 2010 | 12:36 pm · Link
My old archaeology prof used to drink Laphroaig because he could then boast that his whiskey was filtered through bog people. Tasty stuff, though.
Tax Analyst - September 1, 2010 | 12:38 pm · Link
Is it served in a urinal-shaped tankard? Is it traditional to order it with one of those public bathroom deodorizer cakes as garnish?
Tax Analyst - September 1, 2010 | 12:40 pm · Link
And to prove we’re not elitist, our servants eat the same food we do…literally.
Alwhite - September 1, 2010 | 12:40 pm · Link
@Amir_Khalid:
There is a newage-ie belief that has floated around for years that there is some magical benefits to drinking your own urine. Since it has been done in survival situations I assume it is not in and of itself deadly but it seems like a bad idea to ingest what your body wants to be rid of.
I bet if you google it you would get some fan sites.
Amir_Khalid - September 1, 2010 | 12:46 pm · Link
Finally took a look at the Slashdot story. “Gilpin Family Whisky” is such a boring name for a drink. They should rename it “Old No. 1”.
jake the snake - September 1, 2010 | 12:52 pm · Link
I’ve heard the Corona is what Dox Equis drinkers piss, but I thought it was snark until now.
Cain - September 1, 2010 | 2:10 pm · Link
@Amir_Khalid:
That guy was a funny man… his english was horrible too. Of course maybe if he didn’t drink piss, he could have made it to 100.
cain
Cain - September 1, 2010 | 2:11 pm · Link
@Amir_Khalid:
On the other hand, a lot of people did believe in gargling cow piss to get rid of canker sores. Or so my parents have told me. It might be a south thing.
cain
Ruckus - September 1, 2010 | 2:28 pm · Link
@kommrade reproductive vigor:
I always thought Old Grand Dad tastes like I expect piss to taste. And no I’m not into comparison drinking.
Vlad - September 1, 2010 | 5:19 pm · Link
Another notable piss-drinker: former UFC light-heavyweight champ Lyoto Machida.
thalarctos - September 1, 2010 | 5:24 pm · Link
Well, it’s not without precedent—that is how doctors in antiquity distinguished between diabetes mellitus (“sugar diabetes”) and diabetes insipidus (“tasteless diabetes”).
Platonicspoof - September 1, 2010 | 5:43 pm · Link
Fetishists out to shock people.
As this commenter at Slashdot pointed out,
The only time there is glucose in the urine is when blood glucose levels exceed the ability of the kidneys to resorb the glucose back into the blood . . .
If there was significantly greater glucose in the urine, then the blood glucose was at damaging levels at least a few hours earlier (ADA Complete Guide to Diabetes).
Either these diabetics are damaging themselves or it’s geezer abuse or it’s just for the shock value.