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Dogajanje po odročnih krajih po Sloveniji
Invictus ::
Malidelničar je izjavil:
A pa je to res, ali je bolj 'baba rekla baba kazala'? Oz. zakaj naj bi ravno "vukojebine" imele takšne navade, Ljubljana in mesta pa ne? Po mojem v Sloveniji tega "redneckovstva" kot v kakšni Appalachia ni bilo.
Cela Slovenija je redneks dežela. Razen parih izjem posameznikov.
"Life is hard; it's even harder when you're stupid."
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Sparkxl ::
Malidelničar je izjavil:
A pa je to res, ali je bolj 'baba rekla baba kazala'? Oz. zakaj naj bi ravno "vukojebine" imele takšne navade, Ljubljana in mesta pa ne? Po mojem v Sloveniji tega "redneckovstva" kot v kakšni Appalachia ni bilo.
Cela Slovenija je redneks dežela. Razen parih izjem posameznikov.
Brez dvoma sebe šteješ med te izjeme. Ali se motim?
gruntfürmich ::
Malo kdo ve, da je film "Idila" nastal po resnični zgodbi.
tisti ki poznamo slovensko zgodovino vemo da je zgodba 'idila' opis slovenske zgodovine in ne samo enega naključnega dogodka...
"Namreč, da gre ta družba počasi v norost in da je vse, kar mi gledamo,
visoko organizirana bebavost, do podrobnosti izdelana idiotija."
Psiholog HUBERT POŽARNIK, v Oni, o smiselnosti moderne družbe...
visoko organizirana bebavost, do podrobnosti izdelana idiotija."
Psiholog HUBERT POŽARNIK, v Oni, o smiselnosti moderne družbe...
Unchancy ::
Najbolj kmetavzarska je Ljubljana. Hkrati tudi najmanj, ampak kolk je v Lj ljudi, ki so kot da bi prišli "iz hoste"...
Ker kraji, ki so bili v OP pretenciozno in škodoželjno ponujeni, se praznijo. Ljudje grejo v večja mesta. Največje v Sloveniji je pa Ljubljana. In hkrati tudi cilj za veliko priseljencev iz podobnih krajev iz OP iz cele bivše države.
Ker kraji, ki so bili v OP pretenciozno in škodoželjno ponujeni, se praznijo. Ljudje grejo v večja mesta. Največje v Sloveniji je pa Ljubljana. In hkrati tudi cilj za veliko priseljencev iz podobnih krajev iz OP iz cele bivše države.
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cias ::
Močeradevc je tudi na vasi le nekaj kar vsi poznajo, proba ne pa nihče. Enega poznam ki je kupil šmarnico, samo je po enem štamplju imel tak glavobol, da nihce drug niti probat noce.
To so bolj miti kot Bigfoot. Je pa po mestih veliko kemije, vaški mulci so veliko manj razgledani. Tam niti nihče ne upa tega sranja ker je kar stigmatizirano in se vse razve.
To so bolj miti kot Bigfoot. Je pa po mestih veliko kemije, vaški mulci so veliko manj razgledani. Tam niti nihče ne upa tega sranja ker je kar stigmatizirano in se vse razve.
Siso ::
gruntfürmich ::
Je pa po mestih veliko kemije, vaški mulci so veliko manj razgledani. Tam niti nihče ne upa tega sranja ker je kar stigmatizirano in se vse razve.
se ti vidi da nisi čisto diht in da si iz podeželja. v zadnjih 20 letih so se droge v sloveniji selile iz mesta na podeželje!
"Namreč, da gre ta družba počasi v norost in da je vse, kar mi gledamo,
visoko organizirana bebavost, do podrobnosti izdelana idiotija."
Psiholog HUBERT POŽARNIK, v Oni, o smiselnosti moderne družbe...
visoko organizirana bebavost, do podrobnosti izdelana idiotija."
Psiholog HUBERT POŽARNIK, v Oni, o smiselnosti moderne družbe...
Unchancy ::
gruntfürmich je izjavil:
Je pa po mestih veliko kemije, vaški mulci so veliko manj razgledani. Tam niti nihče ne upa tega sranja ker je kar stigmatizirano in se vse razve.
se ti vidi da nisi čisto diht in da si iz podeželja. v zadnjih 20 letih so se droge v sloveniji selile iz mesta na podeželje!
Se pravi: ker je iz podeželja, ne ve kaj se dogaja na podeželju. Fuck logic.
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Invictus ::
Se pravi: ker je iz podeželja, ne ve kaj se dogaja na podeželju. Fuck logic.
Saj to folk res ne ve.
Na vasi je najbolj važno kaj si misli sosed o tebi...
Pa ne vem, zakaj se spet fokusirate na Ljubljano. To ni odročni kraj.
"Life is hard; it's even harder when you're stupid."
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cias ::
gruntfürmich je izjavil:
Je pa po mestih veliko kemije, vaški mulci so veliko manj razgledani. Tam niti nihče ne upa tega sranja ker je kar stigmatizirano in se vse razve.
se ti vidi da nisi čisto diht in da si iz podeželja. v zadnjih 20 letih so se droge v sloveniji selile iz mesta na podeželje!
Se vidi da si mestna srajca, ko gres zjutraj skozi park poln metadonovcov ki se spodbujajo z vinom in se tolažiš da na vaseh mularija dela še hujše. Pije kokakolo in brca žogo.
Invictus ::
Pa nimate pojma o čem govorite.
Močeradovec se ne kuha, ampak se živega močerada namoči v šnops. Le ta zaradi stresa, ker je bil napaden izloči strup čez kožo. Zaradi mučenja živali je to prepovedano, poleg tega so moičeradi zaščitena vrsta.
Šmarnica je vrsta trte, ki je precej bolj odporna na mraz, zato jo gojijo v kakih luknjah, kjer boljše grozdje ne uspeva.
Droge so pa povsod, mora biti res zabačena vas z malo mularije, da jih tam okoli šol ni. Dilerji gredo pač tja, kjer je več strank...
Močeradovec se ne kuha, ampak se živega močerada namoči v šnops. Le ta zaradi stresa, ker je bil napaden izloči strup čez kožo. Zaradi mučenja živali je to prepovedano, poleg tega so moičeradi zaščitena vrsta.
Šmarnica je vrsta trte, ki je precej bolj odporna na mraz, zato jo gojijo v kakih luknjah, kjer boljše grozdje ne uspeva.
Droge so pa povsod, mora biti res zabačena vas z malo mularije, da jih tam okoli šol ni. Dilerji gredo pač tja, kjer je več strank...
"Life is hard; it's even harder when you're stupid."
http://goo.gl/2YuS2x
http://goo.gl/2YuS2x
gruntfürmich ::
Najbolj kmetavzarska je Ljubljana. Hkrati tudi najmanj, ampak kolk je v Lj ljudi, ki so kot da bi prišli "iz hoste"...
Ker kraji, ki so bili v OP pretenciozno in škodoželjno ponujeni, se praznijo. Ljudje grejo v večja mesta. Največje v Sloveniji je pa Ljubljana. In hkrati tudi cilj za veliko priseljencev iz podobnih krajev iz OP iz cele bivše države.
sj pa so prišli iz hoste oz iz kmetavzarije! daneš še celo iz kozjejebovskih dežel.
meščanstva v sloveniji praktično ni, ker so ga komunisti bolj ali manj pobili, tisti preostali pa so izvodeneli, tako da se meščanska kultura v sloveniji ni ohranila. v mesta po vojni pa so drli kmetavzarji za potrebe industrializacije, ki so to tudi ostali. niti delavstvo verjetno niso postali, tako slabo je v sloveniji. o tem je pisal Boštjan M. Zupančič.
"Namreč, da gre ta družba počasi v norost in da je vse, kar mi gledamo,
visoko organizirana bebavost, do podrobnosti izdelana idiotija."
Psiholog HUBERT POŽARNIK, v Oni, o smiselnosti moderne družbe...
visoko organizirana bebavost, do podrobnosti izdelana idiotija."
Psiholog HUBERT POŽARNIK, v Oni, o smiselnosti moderne družbe...
Unchancy ::
Se pravi: ker je iz podeželja, ne ve kaj se dogaja na podeželju. Fuck logic.
Saj to folk res ne ve.
Na vasi je najbolj bvažno kaj si misli sosed o tebi...
Pa ne vem, zakaj se spet fokusitate na Ljubljano. To ni odročni kraj.
Možakar je spraševal po čudnih navadah. Drugače pa - Ljubljana je vaška metropola. Mislim da je tudi zaradi tega pravi kraj za iskanje čudnih navad iz regije.
gruntfürmich je izjavil:
Najbolj kmetavzarska je Ljubljana. Hkrati tudi najmanj, ampak kolk je v Lj ljudi, ki so kot da bi prišli "iz hoste"...
Ker kraji, ki so bili v OP pretenciozno in škodoželjno ponujeni, se praznijo. Ljudje grejo v večja mesta. Največje v Sloveniji je pa Ljubljana. In hkrati tudi cilj za veliko priseljencev iz podobnih krajev iz OP iz cele bivše države.
sj pa so prišli iz hoste oz iz kmetavzarije! daneš še celo iz kozjejebovskih dežel.
meščanstva v sloveniji praktično ni, ker so ga komunisti bolj ali manj pobili, tisti preostali pa so izvodeneli, tako da se meščanska kultura v sloveniji ni ohranila. v mesta po vojni pa so drli kmetavzarji za potrebe industrializacije, ki so to tudi ostali. niti delavstvo verjetno niso postali, tako slabo je v sloveniji. o tem je pisal Boštjan M. Zupančič.
Se strinjam v celoti.
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Gagatronix ::
Malidelničar je izjavil:
A pa je to res, ali je bolj 'baba rekla baba kazala'? Oz. zakaj naj bi ravno "vukojebine" imele takšne navade, Ljubljana in mesta pa ne? Po mojem v Sloveniji tega "redneckovstva" kot v kakšni Appalachia ni bilo.
Glej, predstavljaj si, da zivis v vasici "bogu iza nogu" kjer je edina zabava vaska ostarija, najvecji dogodek leta pa postavljanje mlaja ali kaj podobnega. Sem imel sosolca v srednji soli, ki je bil iz neke take vukojebine. Pri tridesetih se ga je do smrti zapil. Iz cistega dolgcajta.
Unchancy ::
Dandanes imajo ljudje praktično enak standard na vasi kot v mestu. Ceste so asfaltirane, ljudje motorizirani, telekomunikacije dostopne.
Nekih egzotičnih žepov bogu za hrbtom ni več.
Nekih egzotičnih žepov bogu za hrbtom ni več.
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WizzardOfOZ ::
Dandanes imajo ljudje praktično enak standard na vasi kot v mestu. Ceste so asfaltirane, ljudje motorizirani, telekomunikacije dostopne.
Nekih egzotičnih žepov bogu za hrbtom ni več.
Potem pa premalo poznaš slovenijo.
Milčinski je napisal butalce kot prispodobo in ne kot priročnik!!!
Svuda u svijetu ima budala ali je izgleda kod nas centrala!!!
Svuda u svijetu ima budala ali je izgleda kod nas centrala!!!
dexterboy ::
Ljubljana že dolgo ni več Ljubljana, ampak je postala ZokiGrad. Kjer urbanistični plani veljajo toliko, kolikor je debela kuverta z bankovci. Pričakovati neko mestno, ali pa meščansko kulturo, kjer se dnevno zgrinja več deset tisoč delovnih migrantov, je čista utopija. Ko se 25 metrov stran od novogradnje vidi stara hiša ki bo kmalu obrnila 100-tko, veš, da ni tukaj nobenemu za cilj, da bi to mesto bilo spoštovanja vreden kraj za bivanje. Živeti v ZokiGradu? Ne, hvala, sem že dal skozi...
on topic;
Wolt širi ponudbo vsak dan. Dostava drog je bil problem, sedaj je to "obsolite"
on topic;
Wolt širi ponudbo vsak dan. Dostava drog je bil problem, sedaj je to "obsolite"
Ko ne gre več, ko se ustavi, RESET Vas spet v ritem spravi.
stara mama ::
Najbolj kmetavzarska je Ljubljana. Hkrati tudi najmanj, ampak kolk je v Lj ljudi, ki so kot da bi prišli "iz hoste"...
Ker kraji, ki so bili v OP pretenciozno in škodoželjno ponujeni, se praznijo. Ljudje grejo v večja mesta. Največje v Sloveniji je pa Ljubljana. In hkrati tudi cilj za veliko priseljencev iz podobnih krajev iz OP iz cele bivše države.
To je podoben primer kot vsi cigani, ki so se že zdavnaj odselili iz Romunije v Italijo, tam pa je ostalo kulturno avtohtono prebivalstvo.
In pri nas imamo romune za cigane, italjane pa za napredne sosede.
sirotka ::
Pa nimate pojma o čem govorite.
Močeradovec se ne kuha, ampak se živega močerada namoči v šnops. Le ta zaradi stresa, ker je bil napaden izloči strup čez kožo. Zaradi mučenja živali je to prepovedano, poleg tega so moičeradi zaščitena vrsta.
Šmarnica je vrsta trte, ki je precej bolj odporna na mraz, zato jo gojijo v kakih luknjah, kjer boljše grozdje ne uspeva.
Droge so pa povsod, mora biti res zabačena vas z malo mularije, da jih tam okoli šol ni. Dilerji gredo pač tja, kjer je več strank...
Ti si odporen na mraz Ne nabijaj no
jabe ::
Smarnica pa res ni mit... Pac vrsta trte in še danes je. Ni pa vec tok pogosta, kot je bila, seveda. Je zanic pa prevec glava boli, ce dejstvo, da zna biti hudic nevaren, ce cloveka zanese, ne zaleže. je marsikdo, ce ne večina, zamenjal ze s cim drugim. Definitivno pa to ni noben mit.
hipertija ::
Šmarjula se še vedno pije, toliko; pa tudi močeradovec, gadovec ipd. se še vedno dela - zakaj bi eno ali drugo ali tretje kdo pil in si delal škodo, pa ne vem.
Prekle za kurnk
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l0g1t3ch ::
Na vasi postavljajo mlaje ob porokah in abrahamih, raztegujejo meh na harmoniki in pijejo šnops.
V Ljubljani pa se barvajo na modro, protestirajo da obstaja 50 spolov in na koncu gredo na vegi burger in kvazi kavo, za zabavo pa se potegne kaka črtica.
Kaj je bolj normalno, je pa stvar perspektive
V Ljubljani pa se barvajo na modro, protestirajo da obstaja 50 spolov in na koncu gredo na vegi burger in kvazi kavo, za zabavo pa se potegne kaka črtica.
Kaj je bolj normalno, je pa stvar perspektive
gruntfürmich ::
Dandanes imajo ljudje praktično enak standard na vasi kot v mestu. Ceste so asfaltirane, ljudje motorizirani, telekomunikacije dostopne.
Nekih egzotičnih žepov bogu za hrbtom ni več.
materialni standard je vsekakor enak, mentalni je tisti ki hudo šlepa in jih zavira. materialni pogoji pa so vsekakor vsi vzpostavljeni, da bi lahko bili tudi največji rovtarji razgledani, če bi si to želeli.
"Namreč, da gre ta družba počasi v norost in da je vse, kar mi gledamo,
visoko organizirana bebavost, do podrobnosti izdelana idiotija."
Psiholog HUBERT POŽARNIK, v Oni, o smiselnosti moderne družbe...
visoko organizirana bebavost, do podrobnosti izdelana idiotija."
Psiholog HUBERT POŽARNIK, v Oni, o smiselnosti moderne družbe...
WizzardOfOZ ::
Močeradovec se ne kuha, ampak se živega močerada namoči v šnops. Le ta zaradi stresa, ker je bil napaden izloči strup čez kožo. Zaradi mučenja živali je to prepovedano, poleg tega so močeradi zaščitena vrsta.
Močerada se ponavadi priveže pod pipo, kjer teče ven šnops, ko ga kuhaš, da preko njega teče šnops in močerad izloča strup skozi kožo tega pa šnops spira.
Nisem še slišal, da bi ga namakali v šnops.
Milčinski je napisal butalce kot prispodobo in ne kot priročnik!!!
Svuda u svijetu ima budala ali je izgleda kod nas centrala!!!
Svuda u svijetu ima budala ali je izgleda kod nas centrala!!!
l0g1t3ch ::
WizzardOfOZ je izjavil:
Močeradovec se ne kuha, ampak se živega močerada namoči v šnops. Le ta zaradi stresa, ker je bil napaden izloči strup čez kožo. Zaradi mučenja živali je to prepovedano, poleg tega so močeradi zaščitena vrsta.
Močerada se ponavadi priveže pod pipo, kjer teče ven šnops, ko ga kuhaš, da preko njega teče šnops in močerad izloča strup skozi kožo tega pa šnops spira.
Nisem še slišal, da bi ga namakali v šnops.
Tako je pravil tudi stari ata. Baje so ga še začetek 90ih kuhal na eni zabačeni kmetiji blizu njegovega rojstnega kraja. Lahko uganete, kako se je domačiji reklo po domače
"pr močerad"
l0g1t3ch ::
Gagatronix je izjavil:
Baje. Povsod baje.
Kaj naj ti rečem ?
On je pravil da to tam kuhajo, nimam sicer razloga da mu ne bi verjel, na lastne oči pa tudi nisem videl ker sem bil takrat še mulc.
Jaz sem prepričan, da so s tem zagotovo nekateri eksperientiral. Kako razširjeno je bilo in kako pogosto se je to delalo ne bi vedel, vseeno pa mislim da vse skupaj ni na suho izmišljeno.
Kjer je dim je tudi ogenj.
Ljudje pač iščejo razno razne načine kako se zadet in če si že ves prekurjen alkoholik, da ti navaden šnopc ne zaleže več, greš pač korak naprej. Malo pomisli kaj vse ljudje konzumirajo da bi dobili svoj fiks. Še marsikaj precej bolj prtegnjenega, kot pa močeradov strup.
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WizzardOfOZ ::
WizzardOfOZ je izjavil:
Močeradovec se ne kuha, ampak se živega močerada namoči v šnops. Le ta zaradi stresa, ker je bil napaden izloči strup čez kožo. Zaradi mučenja živali je to prepovedano, poleg tega so močeradi zaščitena vrsta.
Močerada se ponavadi priveže pod pipo, kjer teče ven šnops, ko ga kuhaš, da preko njega teče šnops in močerad izloča strup skozi kožo tega pa šnops spira.
Nisem še slišal, da bi ga namakali v šnops.
Tako je pravil tudi stari ata. Baje so ga še začetek 90ih kuhal na eni zabačeni kmetiji blizu njegovega rojstnega kraja. Lahko uganete, kako se je domačiji reklo po domače
"pr močerad"
Pri nas šnops kuhamo še danes, ampak močerada pa še nikoli nismo dal pod šnops, niti nimamo namena kaj takega počet.
Delamo pa pri nas "mekano" rakijo (da ne peče po grlu, ko jo piješ), torej tam do 35%, ga pa skoraj vsega odkupi en domačin, ki pa gozdne sadeže potem namaka v naš šnops. Dela iz tega razne "likerje" pa "borovničke". Pol pa ljubljančani vse pokupijo od njega.
Milčinski je napisal butalce kot prispodobo in ne kot priročnik!!!
Svuda u svijetu ima budala ali je izgleda kod nas centrala!!!
Svuda u svijetu ima budala ali je izgleda kod nas centrala!!!
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l0g1t3ch ::
Sej ni nate letelo. Razen če se pri vas po domače reče "pr močerad"
Sicer pa tudi pr nas stari starši še kuhajo šnopc iz hrušk in jabolk, pa posebi iz češenj. Likerje pa potem tamlad delajo, ker gre to potem za 20€+ na liter.
Sicer pa tudi pr nas stari starši še kuhajo šnopc iz hrušk in jabolk, pa posebi iz češenj. Likerje pa potem tamlad delajo, ker gre to potem za 20€+ na liter.
WizzardOfOZ ::
Ja, likerji gredo, samo rabiš pa čas, da gozdne sadeže nabiraš.
Milčinski je napisal butalce kot prispodobo in ne kot priročnik!!!
Svuda u svijetu ima budala ali je izgleda kod nas centrala!!!
Svuda u svijetu ima budala ali je izgleda kod nas centrala!!!
matobeli ::
https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/thaila...
če bi kdo delal "žabovca"
Ampak so pogruntal da ti ni treba ubit uboge živali in jo lahko ponucaš večkrat:
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cannab...
če bi kdo delal "žabovca"
Ampak so pogruntal da ti ni treba ubit uboge živali in jo lahko ponucaš večkrat:
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cannab...
l0g1t3ch ::
Cracked o močeradovcu: https://www.cracked.com/blog/robert-eva...
Dober članek.
This town, in the beautiful Poljanska Valley, had a nickname my interpreter, Neza, always translated as "Clusterfuck." She drove my friends and I into the valley to find Clusterfuck, and the truth about salamander brandy ... but, unfortunately, we didn't get much more information. It had been common after World War II, some old-timers told us, but times were better now -- so who'd drown salamanders for a high anymore?
Poljanska dolina FTW
matobeli ::
Razširjen članek oziroma poglavje ali par iz knjige "A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization" avtor Rober Evans.
"Unraveling the Truth About Salamander Brandy
Other researchers have attempted to suss out the reality of Blaz Ogorevc's salamander brandy experience. The first seems to have been Ivan Valencic in 1998. He identified the fire salamander as the key ingredient, and also noted that locals often mixed their drinks with wormwood. (As far as I can tell, he's the only scholar to suggest this, and he does so without outside evidence.) Ivan claimed that August is the traditional start of the salamander-hunting season, and that salamander brandy brewing is thought to be centuries old.
This is all exciting stuff, if true. But Ivan's article seems to rely heavily on his own ethnographic research and experiences in Slovenia. His only source for explicit facts on the brandy is Ogorevc's article from 1995. Valencic isn't a chemist or a biologist, but he takes his salamander brandy much more seriously than Ogorevc. According to him, it averages 45 percent alcohol by volume, and five to six 20-centimeter-long salamanders make an imposing 30 liters of brandy.
Y'know, in case you want to kick off Arbor Day with a mass woodland orgy.
That all sounds extremely specific, but Ivan seems to have less of a handle on the dosing: he suggests anywhere between 50 milliliters (about one shot glass) and 200 milliliters. It's terrifying to imagine a drug with that kind of variance in dosage, but it makes sense for a folk drug. There's probably not a lot of standardization among the sort of people who drown animals to get wasted.
Ivan also asserts that the brandy is completely clear. That runs counter to the one purported picture of the brew you can actually find on the Internet. Posted by John Morris in 2000, it shows a fire salamander suspended in a light blue bottle of liquor. John was a writer for the Daily Telegraph, and he wrote the column Grail Trail. He traveled to Slovenia and apparently came upon a bottle of brandy himself:
I had to go through a chain of whispered contacts and endless hours in smoke-filled taverns in Skofja Loka before finding the stuff. It is best enjoyed as a local experience, drunk fresh in the forest where there are plenty of trees to fall in love with. Direct requests for the magic brew will not yield results, but a disapproving local farmer might "happen to find" some of the evil stuff if the price is right.
Morris gave the price for a bottle at around twenty-five to thirty US dollars, and mentions that autumn--"just before the salamander goes into hibernation"--is the best time to buy a bottle. He also reiterates Ogorevc's famous claim that the brandy makes users uncontrollably randy:
The erotic charge of the drink is powerful, but tends to be indiscriminate in its target, so that anything in the natural world can become sexually attractive--trees, plants, animals or even humans.
That said, Morris gives little that can be called a personal account of the drug's effects, and he also gives thanks to Ogorevc for help in his article. So we can count Morris's account as another feather in the cap of hallucinogenic amphibian liquor, but very far from a smoking gun. If this drink's psychedelic, tree-fucking reputation is all just a practical joke by Blaz Ogorevc, it's entirely possible Mr. Morris might just be helping him keep it alive.
I've found at least one animal rights website that takes the possibility of salamander brandy seriously. Save the Salamanders includes salamander brandy under its "threats" tab of serious issues facing the salamander species. The site uses a picture from Morris's article, and contains information it seems to have gathered purely from reading that account and doing no other research.
Salamanders are also captured and killed for Salamander Brandy, a beverage that actually contains a corpse of a deceased salamander in it. One of the methods in which the drink is cruelly made is to have two live salamanders tossed into a barrel of fermenting fruits and then leaving them for a month's time. After this point the mixture is then distilled.
The case against salamander brandy's existence comes almost entirely from one man: Miha Kozorog, a professor at the University of Ljubljana. He's authored two papers, one in 2003, published by his school, and one in 2014, published in the book Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage. He noted that salamander brandy was quite famous within his local drug culture, and set off into the countryside to try and find some.
While his findings did suggest that salamander brandy is a real brew with a long and storied tradition in Slovenia, it has no great hallucinogenic reputation. Instead, the name has become a shorthand for the beverage made by disreputable brandy makers trying to stretch their output by adding disreputable ingredients. When he asked local distillers about the brew, they said things like, "We have always been honest brandy makers" and, "Making salamander brandy is a shameful act."
Kozorog summarized, "No one mentions salamander brandy in connection to altered states of consciousness, but exclusively in connection to fraudulent brandy making. The term was used when after drinking brandy very negative effects were felt, such as partial paralysis [not a symptom of alcohol use] and sickness."
In other words, there's a very real possibility that drinking the poisonous mucus of a salamander causes some sort of paralytic effect, which would certainly alter the nature of any bender you got into on the stuff. But Kozorog's research doesn't make Ogorevc's mythically erotic trip seem likely.
But if Blaz Ogorevc and John Morris are lying, why? The only explanation that occurs to me is one of national pride. Slovenia is a small, oft-overlooked chunk of the European continent. A homegrown hallucinogen of unique effect is a matter of pride in certain circles of society. Kozorog himself observed that the drug is seen as a piece of "national heritage" by some of his peers.
Salamander brandy was attractive because it was fresh, exotic and "Ours."
The matter of salamander brandy's existence has been seriously questioned, but not quite solved. To do that, I had to travel to Slovenia myself and see if I could bring an end, one way or the other, to this debate . . .
Tracking Down the Truth About Salamander Brandy
I traveled to Slovenia in August 2015, starting in the capital city of Ljubljana. I spent several days there, hanging out around the city's squatter artist enclaves and asking the young, narcotics-inclined folks I met if they'd ever heard of salamander brandy. The answer to that question was always yes, either from reading Blaz Ogorevc's article or from hearing it discussed by friends at a party. I met only one man who claimed to have tried it: A young stylist at a barbershop who told us that a little bit was passed around at a party he attended once. He claimed it got him high, but he wouldn't go into more detail.
He may have been lying. No one else in Ljubljana claimed to have taken salamander brandy themselves; here and there I ran into someone who said a friend had tried it at a party, or been given some by a sketchy uncle. I attempted to track down each of these leads but they came to nothing. After four fruitless days of searching, I decided I'd have to venture deeper into Slovenia if I was going to unravel the mystery of salamander brandy.
According to Ogorevc, the center of salamander brandy production lies in the tiny villages and hamlets surrounding the town of Skofja Loka. (Luckily for Ogorevc, Skofja Loka also happens to be his hometown.) Skofja Loka is about as idyllic a place as I've ever been. It's a small, medieval village surrounded by mighty rolling hills and great green forests. There are many little taverns and restaurants where locals gather at the end of the day to drink the local beer (Lasko) and shoot the proverbial shit.
I spent most of my time in Skofja Loka trawling these little bars with the help of my translator, Neza. The younger folks we talked to had little to say about it. Their knowledge seemed to come solely from the Ogorevc article; many of them had read it, and the rest had at least heard people talking about it. But the older locals had a lot more to say. First off, they clarified that it was not salamander brandy, but salamander schnapps. Brandy is not a popular drink among those from the mountains and hills of Slovenia. But the people in the hinterlands do have a long and abiding tradition of schnapps brewing. Home-distilled schnapps is to rural Slovenia what white lightning is to Appalachia.
One man we spoke with, Ystok, told us he used to own a restaurant in the nearby Poljanska Valley. He claimed that a town in the valley, nicknamed "Clusterfuck" by everyone who didn't live there, had been the center of production for salamander schnapps. According to him, Clusterfuck had earned its reputation by virtue of being filled with the sort of hillbillies you'd expect to try and drown salamanders for a cheap high. Ystok also told us that we would have trouble finding any salamander schnapps these days: Thanks to government taxes and regulations on the large stills used to make schnapps, it was basically illegal.
Ystok told us the production method he'd heard of involved putting a live salamander in the little closed box (called the "hat") above the still. The hapless amphibian would be slowly steamed to death, and his poisons would trickle down into the schnapps. One salamander apparently contained enough poison to brew four to five liters of schnapps. He described the resultant brew as "very poisonous." He told us a (possibly but not certainly apocryphal) tale of one town drunk, a man who could easily drink a bottle of normal schnapps on his own, who was "DONE!" after two glasses of salamander schnapps. Ystok added, "Some people call it a delicacy, but it is not."
Neza and I had been speaking with Ystok for maybe twenty minutes when several of his friends, all hanging out around the same tavern, realized what we were talking about. They were quick to offer their own opinions on salamander schnapps. One person told us that while normal schnapps is often taken as a digestive (for "stomach issues") or used as an aperitif before meals, salamander schnapps was primarily used to get "really fucked up."
A few of the first people in Ljubljana and Skofja Loka I'd asked about salamander schnapps had been adamant that it was just another type of alcoholic beverage. This was consistent with the conclusions Miha Kozorog had drawn: Salamanders were added to the brew by disreputable bootleggers looking to add a little kick, not a hallucinogen. But Ystok and his comrades were adamant that salamander schnapps was a drug, and a potent one at that. I was warned several times that it was "poisonous" and should be diluted with water.
In general, the older people I spoke with were sure it existed and split on whether or not it possessed hallucinogenic qualities. The younger residents I talked to simply knew it existed, and more or less parroted what they'd read in Blaz Ogorevc's article if they had anything to say at all. Later in the night, at another tiny bar in Skofja Loka, I came across several middle-aged men drinking together. One of them claimed to have tried salamander schnapps himself. He remarked, "You feel dizzy when you drink it." This was consistent with Ivan Valencic's hypothesis that salamander schnapps includes some paralytic agent that "takes the legs" out from under a drinker.
I sat drinking with these men for a couple of hours (one of them was the bar owner, and thus the beers were free) and, after a while, the man who claimed to have tried salamander schnapps admitted that he wasn't sure if what he'd had was the real deal. But he had some relatives nearby, on a farm in the mountains on the way to the village of Clusterfuck, and he told us they might know more.
So the next day we set off in Neza's car for Clusterfuck and environs, and stopped along the way at this farm. After one of the greatest meals of my life (words cannot do the sausage justice), I interviewed the old farmer. He didn't know where I could find salamander schnapps, but he did give me some of the most enlightening information of the entire trip. According to him, salamander schnapps was much more common immediately after World War II, when times were tough and a good high was rather hard to find.
He claimed that salamander-infused schnapps simply got you really drunk, and left you with a terrible headache afterward. He confirmed that it had a reputation for "taking the legs" out from under you, and told us of one local drunk who "drank so much . . . that he was petrified." It was a bitter drink, not at all like normal schnapps. The old farmer also told us of another brewing method: The salamander would be decapitated and hot schnapps would be poured over the severed head. This does make some biological sense: The fire salamander keeps its poison glands on the back of its head.
After lunch and an interview, we drove off into the valley toward the town of Clusterfuck. It started to rain heavily during our drive, and our progress was slow in the winding mountain roads. At one point we passed a grizzled old man rebuilding a scythe, and I had Neza stop the car so we could talk to him. He wound up having a lot to say; he was a fan of Blaz Ogorevc and familiar with the original article on salamander schnapps. But he'd also lived in the region his entire life and had heard another theory about the beverage, which I found fascinating.
Apparently, after World War II local distillers started using a new Italian yeast that fermented faster. The yeast's name was very similar to the Slovenian word for salamander, and that might be where the myth of salamander schnapps first began. He added that he'd heard quite a few people talk about the drink's "bad reputation" as a hallucinogenic substance. Like us, he didn't seem to know the truth.
After another half hour of driving we made it to Clusterfuck at last. It was a surprisingly nice town, given what the name had led us to expect, but we found no traces of salamander schnapps. One man we spoke with told us that "people used to talk about it a lot, but not anymore." We stopped for consolation beers at a local bar, where a muscular man with a pronounced unibrow told us of a schnapps distiller in the next town who might know something more about the increasingly mythic brew.
We drove to the distillery and, after drinking a delicious glass of honey schnapps and a terrible glass of cumin schnapps, started talking with the owners about schnapps of the salamandered variety. They didn't make any, of course, but they did posit a new theory for how the beverage had come to be. From what they'd heard, salamanders were attracted to the heat of the still and started crowding around until the brewers "just started putting them in." They reiterated that salamander schnapps was a drug from an earlier generation, and "probably all the people who tried it are already dead."
And so my trip to Slovenia came to an end. I'd gathered a lot of fascinating theories and conflicting stories about salamander brandy/schnapps. But I hadn't actually found any examples of the brew itself. The saga of the salamander-based hallucinogen remains unfinished, perhaps for some bold narceologist of the future. I don't like to end on this note, presenting another chapter in the long mystery rather than its definitive conclusion.
But the book's got to end somewhere; here seems as good as any place. Bye!
...
Hah! Just kidding. That bye was a test, and everyone still reading this passed. The fact that I couldn't find any salamander schnapps in Slovenia just meant that I was going to need to brew a batch myself and try it out. That's right, I'm about to teach you . . .
Conclusion
So, my trip to Slovenia didn't end with salamander schnapps. I had to make that stuff on my own. But I did wind up stumbling on another prize: glass after glass of homemade liquor. Once people heard I was looking for salamander schnapps, they couldn't wait to offer me the schnapps they'd brewed themselves.
Most of the homebrewed Slovenian schnapps I had was not . . . great. But it was all different, and the people I met were endearingly passionate about the liquor their grandfathers, etc., had brewed up in the spare bathtub and distilled in the kitchen. Slovenian schnapps, as well as salamander schnapps, is what people who use needlessly smart words call an "autochthonous drug." Autochthonous just means it's a local invention; not imported from some other country and culture.
I encountered a lot of autochthonous liquor traditions as I passed through the Baltic states. In Serbia and Bosnia they drink a fruit brandy known as rachiya. People make rachiya out of pears, plums, apples, and basically everything else that ferments. You sip it out of fat-bottomed, long-necked shot glasses. My first introduction to rachiya was in the apartment of a friend's cousin. It was the cousin's own plum rachiya; it tasted hot, like burnt sugar and smoke. After several glasses, he pulled out a goat head that was just chilling in his freezer and started eating its brains with a spoon. I got the feeling that this was not an abnormal Friday night for anyone else in the room.
The United States doesn't have many autochthonous drugs. We're certainly the country that made substances like LSD and MDMA famous, and we've become the world's number one producer of marijuana, but none of that originates from here. All across the Balkan states, people toast with rachiya, and drink it before meals as an aperitif or over long nights with their friends. You can look back centuries in time and find Balkan people making and drinking rachiya in much the same way, and for the exact same reasons.
We're awash in craft beer and craft liquors and boutique marijuana today, but these are all the spearheads of new traditions. Prohibition disrupted America's drinking traditions in the 1920s, so much that breweries are now producing "pre-prohibition" ales in imitation of old recipes. The criminalization of most other narcotics has limited their ability to gain much cultural weight. And that's a problem.
In chapter 10, I talked about the ability of ritual behavior to limit and moderate drug use. Every vice I've written about in this book started out as some sort of ritualized behavior. Sarcasm and trolling offered our ancestors a way to moderate the violent impulses of young men. Prostitution was once a sacred religious duty, the purview of priests rather than pimps.
Behind every vice is an impulse. We can sate those impulses in ways that are healthy, that improve our ability to deal with the world, and that help us grow as people. Or we can sate those impulses in ways that numb us to the world and drive us deeper and deeper away from it. My hope for this book is that it makes you look at the next cigarette you smoke, the next beer you drink, the next hit of whatever you drop at a party as more than just a product to consume. Think of the history behind it. Think of the weight of human ingenuity and invention that had to build up before you could enjoy it as easily and safely as you do.
Enjoy your vices, but respect them, too."
"Unraveling the Truth About Salamander Brandy
Other researchers have attempted to suss out the reality of Blaz Ogorevc's salamander brandy experience. The first seems to have been Ivan Valencic in 1998. He identified the fire salamander as the key ingredient, and also noted that locals often mixed their drinks with wormwood. (As far as I can tell, he's the only scholar to suggest this, and he does so without outside evidence.) Ivan claimed that August is the traditional start of the salamander-hunting season, and that salamander brandy brewing is thought to be centuries old.
This is all exciting stuff, if true. But Ivan's article seems to rely heavily on his own ethnographic research and experiences in Slovenia. His only source for explicit facts on the brandy is Ogorevc's article from 1995. Valencic isn't a chemist or a biologist, but he takes his salamander brandy much more seriously than Ogorevc. According to him, it averages 45 percent alcohol by volume, and five to six 20-centimeter-long salamanders make an imposing 30 liters of brandy.
Y'know, in case you want to kick off Arbor Day with a mass woodland orgy.
That all sounds extremely specific, but Ivan seems to have less of a handle on the dosing: he suggests anywhere between 50 milliliters (about one shot glass) and 200 milliliters. It's terrifying to imagine a drug with that kind of variance in dosage, but it makes sense for a folk drug. There's probably not a lot of standardization among the sort of people who drown animals to get wasted.
Ivan also asserts that the brandy is completely clear. That runs counter to the one purported picture of the brew you can actually find on the Internet. Posted by John Morris in 2000, it shows a fire salamander suspended in a light blue bottle of liquor. John was a writer for the Daily Telegraph, and he wrote the column Grail Trail. He traveled to Slovenia and apparently came upon a bottle of brandy himself:
I had to go through a chain of whispered contacts and endless hours in smoke-filled taverns in Skofja Loka before finding the stuff. It is best enjoyed as a local experience, drunk fresh in the forest where there are plenty of trees to fall in love with. Direct requests for the magic brew will not yield results, but a disapproving local farmer might "happen to find" some of the evil stuff if the price is right.
Morris gave the price for a bottle at around twenty-five to thirty US dollars, and mentions that autumn--"just before the salamander goes into hibernation"--is the best time to buy a bottle. He also reiterates Ogorevc's famous claim that the brandy makes users uncontrollably randy:
The erotic charge of the drink is powerful, but tends to be indiscriminate in its target, so that anything in the natural world can become sexually attractive--trees, plants, animals or even humans.
That said, Morris gives little that can be called a personal account of the drug's effects, and he also gives thanks to Ogorevc for help in his article. So we can count Morris's account as another feather in the cap of hallucinogenic amphibian liquor, but very far from a smoking gun. If this drink's psychedelic, tree-fucking reputation is all just a practical joke by Blaz Ogorevc, it's entirely possible Mr. Morris might just be helping him keep it alive.
I've found at least one animal rights website that takes the possibility of salamander brandy seriously. Save the Salamanders includes salamander brandy under its "threats" tab of serious issues facing the salamander species. The site uses a picture from Morris's article, and contains information it seems to have gathered purely from reading that account and doing no other research.
Salamanders are also captured and killed for Salamander Brandy, a beverage that actually contains a corpse of a deceased salamander in it. One of the methods in which the drink is cruelly made is to have two live salamanders tossed into a barrel of fermenting fruits and then leaving them for a month's time. After this point the mixture is then distilled.
The case against salamander brandy's existence comes almost entirely from one man: Miha Kozorog, a professor at the University of Ljubljana. He's authored two papers, one in 2003, published by his school, and one in 2014, published in the book Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage. He noted that salamander brandy was quite famous within his local drug culture, and set off into the countryside to try and find some.
While his findings did suggest that salamander brandy is a real brew with a long and storied tradition in Slovenia, it has no great hallucinogenic reputation. Instead, the name has become a shorthand for the beverage made by disreputable brandy makers trying to stretch their output by adding disreputable ingredients. When he asked local distillers about the brew, they said things like, "We have always been honest brandy makers" and, "Making salamander brandy is a shameful act."
Kozorog summarized, "No one mentions salamander brandy in connection to altered states of consciousness, but exclusively in connection to fraudulent brandy making. The term was used when after drinking brandy very negative effects were felt, such as partial paralysis [not a symptom of alcohol use] and sickness."
In other words, there's a very real possibility that drinking the poisonous mucus of a salamander causes some sort of paralytic effect, which would certainly alter the nature of any bender you got into on the stuff. But Kozorog's research doesn't make Ogorevc's mythically erotic trip seem likely.
But if Blaz Ogorevc and John Morris are lying, why? The only explanation that occurs to me is one of national pride. Slovenia is a small, oft-overlooked chunk of the European continent. A homegrown hallucinogen of unique effect is a matter of pride in certain circles of society. Kozorog himself observed that the drug is seen as a piece of "national heritage" by some of his peers.
Salamander brandy was attractive because it was fresh, exotic and "Ours."
The matter of salamander brandy's existence has been seriously questioned, but not quite solved. To do that, I had to travel to Slovenia myself and see if I could bring an end, one way or the other, to this debate . . .
Tracking Down the Truth About Salamander Brandy
I traveled to Slovenia in August 2015, starting in the capital city of Ljubljana. I spent several days there, hanging out around the city's squatter artist enclaves and asking the young, narcotics-inclined folks I met if they'd ever heard of salamander brandy. The answer to that question was always yes, either from reading Blaz Ogorevc's article or from hearing it discussed by friends at a party. I met only one man who claimed to have tried it: A young stylist at a barbershop who told us that a little bit was passed around at a party he attended once. He claimed it got him high, but he wouldn't go into more detail.
He may have been lying. No one else in Ljubljana claimed to have taken salamander brandy themselves; here and there I ran into someone who said a friend had tried it at a party, or been given some by a sketchy uncle. I attempted to track down each of these leads but they came to nothing. After four fruitless days of searching, I decided I'd have to venture deeper into Slovenia if I was going to unravel the mystery of salamander brandy.
According to Ogorevc, the center of salamander brandy production lies in the tiny villages and hamlets surrounding the town of Skofja Loka. (Luckily for Ogorevc, Skofja Loka also happens to be his hometown.) Skofja Loka is about as idyllic a place as I've ever been. It's a small, medieval village surrounded by mighty rolling hills and great green forests. There are many little taverns and restaurants where locals gather at the end of the day to drink the local beer (Lasko) and shoot the proverbial shit.
I spent most of my time in Skofja Loka trawling these little bars with the help of my translator, Neza. The younger folks we talked to had little to say about it. Their knowledge seemed to come solely from the Ogorevc article; many of them had read it, and the rest had at least heard people talking about it. But the older locals had a lot more to say. First off, they clarified that it was not salamander brandy, but salamander schnapps. Brandy is not a popular drink among those from the mountains and hills of Slovenia. But the people in the hinterlands do have a long and abiding tradition of schnapps brewing. Home-distilled schnapps is to rural Slovenia what white lightning is to Appalachia.
One man we spoke with, Ystok, told us he used to own a restaurant in the nearby Poljanska Valley. He claimed that a town in the valley, nicknamed "Clusterfuck" by everyone who didn't live there, had been the center of production for salamander schnapps. According to him, Clusterfuck had earned its reputation by virtue of being filled with the sort of hillbillies you'd expect to try and drown salamanders for a cheap high. Ystok also told us that we would have trouble finding any salamander schnapps these days: Thanks to government taxes and regulations on the large stills used to make schnapps, it was basically illegal.
Ystok told us the production method he'd heard of involved putting a live salamander in the little closed box (called the "hat") above the still. The hapless amphibian would be slowly steamed to death, and his poisons would trickle down into the schnapps. One salamander apparently contained enough poison to brew four to five liters of schnapps. He described the resultant brew as "very poisonous." He told us a (possibly but not certainly apocryphal) tale of one town drunk, a man who could easily drink a bottle of normal schnapps on his own, who was "DONE!" after two glasses of salamander schnapps. Ystok added, "Some people call it a delicacy, but it is not."
Neza and I had been speaking with Ystok for maybe twenty minutes when several of his friends, all hanging out around the same tavern, realized what we were talking about. They were quick to offer their own opinions on salamander schnapps. One person told us that while normal schnapps is often taken as a digestive (for "stomach issues") or used as an aperitif before meals, salamander schnapps was primarily used to get "really fucked up."
A few of the first people in Ljubljana and Skofja Loka I'd asked about salamander schnapps had been adamant that it was just another type of alcoholic beverage. This was consistent with the conclusions Miha Kozorog had drawn: Salamanders were added to the brew by disreputable bootleggers looking to add a little kick, not a hallucinogen. But Ystok and his comrades were adamant that salamander schnapps was a drug, and a potent one at that. I was warned several times that it was "poisonous" and should be diluted with water.
In general, the older people I spoke with were sure it existed and split on whether or not it possessed hallucinogenic qualities. The younger residents I talked to simply knew it existed, and more or less parroted what they'd read in Blaz Ogorevc's article if they had anything to say at all. Later in the night, at another tiny bar in Skofja Loka, I came across several middle-aged men drinking together. One of them claimed to have tried salamander schnapps himself. He remarked, "You feel dizzy when you drink it." This was consistent with Ivan Valencic's hypothesis that salamander schnapps includes some paralytic agent that "takes the legs" out from under a drinker.
I sat drinking with these men for a couple of hours (one of them was the bar owner, and thus the beers were free) and, after a while, the man who claimed to have tried salamander schnapps admitted that he wasn't sure if what he'd had was the real deal. But he had some relatives nearby, on a farm in the mountains on the way to the village of Clusterfuck, and he told us they might know more.
So the next day we set off in Neza's car for Clusterfuck and environs, and stopped along the way at this farm. After one of the greatest meals of my life (words cannot do the sausage justice), I interviewed the old farmer. He didn't know where I could find salamander schnapps, but he did give me some of the most enlightening information of the entire trip. According to him, salamander schnapps was much more common immediately after World War II, when times were tough and a good high was rather hard to find.
He claimed that salamander-infused schnapps simply got you really drunk, and left you with a terrible headache afterward. He confirmed that it had a reputation for "taking the legs" out from under you, and told us of one local drunk who "drank so much . . . that he was petrified." It was a bitter drink, not at all like normal schnapps. The old farmer also told us of another brewing method: The salamander would be decapitated and hot schnapps would be poured over the severed head. This does make some biological sense: The fire salamander keeps its poison glands on the back of its head.
After lunch and an interview, we drove off into the valley toward the town of Clusterfuck. It started to rain heavily during our drive, and our progress was slow in the winding mountain roads. At one point we passed a grizzled old man rebuilding a scythe, and I had Neza stop the car so we could talk to him. He wound up having a lot to say; he was a fan of Blaz Ogorevc and familiar with the original article on salamander schnapps. But he'd also lived in the region his entire life and had heard another theory about the beverage, which I found fascinating.
Apparently, after World War II local distillers started using a new Italian yeast that fermented faster. The yeast's name was very similar to the Slovenian word for salamander, and that might be where the myth of salamander schnapps first began. He added that he'd heard quite a few people talk about the drink's "bad reputation" as a hallucinogenic substance. Like us, he didn't seem to know the truth.
After another half hour of driving we made it to Clusterfuck at last. It was a surprisingly nice town, given what the name had led us to expect, but we found no traces of salamander schnapps. One man we spoke with told us that "people used to talk about it a lot, but not anymore." We stopped for consolation beers at a local bar, where a muscular man with a pronounced unibrow told us of a schnapps distiller in the next town who might know something more about the increasingly mythic brew.
We drove to the distillery and, after drinking a delicious glass of honey schnapps and a terrible glass of cumin schnapps, started talking with the owners about schnapps of the salamandered variety. They didn't make any, of course, but they did posit a new theory for how the beverage had come to be. From what they'd heard, salamanders were attracted to the heat of the still and started crowding around until the brewers "just started putting them in." They reiterated that salamander schnapps was a drug from an earlier generation, and "probably all the people who tried it are already dead."
And so my trip to Slovenia came to an end. I'd gathered a lot of fascinating theories and conflicting stories about salamander brandy/schnapps. But I hadn't actually found any examples of the brew itself. The saga of the salamander-based hallucinogen remains unfinished, perhaps for some bold narceologist of the future. I don't like to end on this note, presenting another chapter in the long mystery rather than its definitive conclusion.
But the book's got to end somewhere; here seems as good as any place. Bye!
...
Hah! Just kidding. That bye was a test, and everyone still reading this passed. The fact that I couldn't find any salamander schnapps in Slovenia just meant that I was going to need to brew a batch myself and try it out. That's right, I'm about to teach you . . .
Conclusion
So, my trip to Slovenia didn't end with salamander schnapps. I had to make that stuff on my own. But I did wind up stumbling on another prize: glass after glass of homemade liquor. Once people heard I was looking for salamander schnapps, they couldn't wait to offer me the schnapps they'd brewed themselves.
Most of the homebrewed Slovenian schnapps I had was not . . . great. But it was all different, and the people I met were endearingly passionate about the liquor their grandfathers, etc., had brewed up in the spare bathtub and distilled in the kitchen. Slovenian schnapps, as well as salamander schnapps, is what people who use needlessly smart words call an "autochthonous drug." Autochthonous just means it's a local invention; not imported from some other country and culture.
I encountered a lot of autochthonous liquor traditions as I passed through the Baltic states. In Serbia and Bosnia they drink a fruit brandy known as rachiya. People make rachiya out of pears, plums, apples, and basically everything else that ferments. You sip it out of fat-bottomed, long-necked shot glasses. My first introduction to rachiya was in the apartment of a friend's cousin. It was the cousin's own plum rachiya; it tasted hot, like burnt sugar and smoke. After several glasses, he pulled out a goat head that was just chilling in his freezer and started eating its brains with a spoon. I got the feeling that this was not an abnormal Friday night for anyone else in the room.
The United States doesn't have many autochthonous drugs. We're certainly the country that made substances like LSD and MDMA famous, and we've become the world's number one producer of marijuana, but none of that originates from here. All across the Balkan states, people toast with rachiya, and drink it before meals as an aperitif or over long nights with their friends. You can look back centuries in time and find Balkan people making and drinking rachiya in much the same way, and for the exact same reasons.
We're awash in craft beer and craft liquors and boutique marijuana today, but these are all the spearheads of new traditions. Prohibition disrupted America's drinking traditions in the 1920s, so much that breweries are now producing "pre-prohibition" ales in imitation of old recipes. The criminalization of most other narcotics has limited their ability to gain much cultural weight. And that's a problem.
In chapter 10, I talked about the ability of ritual behavior to limit and moderate drug use. Every vice I've written about in this book started out as some sort of ritualized behavior. Sarcasm and trolling offered our ancestors a way to moderate the violent impulses of young men. Prostitution was once a sacred religious duty, the purview of priests rather than pimps.
Behind every vice is an impulse. We can sate those impulses in ways that are healthy, that improve our ability to deal with the world, and that help us grow as people. Or we can sate those impulses in ways that numb us to the world and drive us deeper and deeper away from it. My hope for this book is that it makes you look at the next cigarette you smoke, the next beer you drink, the next hit of whatever you drop at a party as more than just a product to consume. Think of the history behind it. Think of the weight of human ingenuity and invention that had to build up before you could enjoy it as easily and safely as you do.
Enjoy your vices, but respect them, too."
tony1 ::
Cracked o močeradovcu: https://www.cracked.com/blog/robert-eva...
"After two months waiting for my salamander to acclimate and then milking him, it was time for me to drink. I downed all four shots within the space of 20 minutes. I felt a little drunk, but nothing more. Certainly no tree-fucking bouts of psychedelic lust, which was a real bummer. I lay down, fell asleep, and woke up maybe an hour after my first sip needing badly to pee. I tried to get up and almost fell flat on my ass. My legs were wobbly, like I'd done a light dose of GHB. I staggered to the kitchen, drank water, and staggered back weirded thoroughly, the fuck, out.
The next morning I felt queasy and my stomach hurt. I was lightheaded for hours. Perhaps it was just my reward for drinking before bed after a month or so of abstaining from alcohol. But I don't think that explains it. My experience was consistent with many of the tales I'd heard in and around Skofja Loka: Salamandified booze "takes the legs out from under you." And that's the best conclusion any of us is going to get until some bold grad student gets funding to follow in my footsteps with real science."
matobeli ::
Mene tud matra katera mesto/vas je Clusterfuck. Verjetno Poljane.
HOW TO: Make Cruelty-Free Salamander Schnapps
Obviously, the "traditional" method of brewing salamander schnapps wasn't something I was willing to re-create. No book would be worth torturing a small animal to death. But, after mulling it over a bit, I hit on a way to brew my own salamander schnapps without becoming a monster in the attempt. First I'd need:
Ingredients
1 European fire salamander
1 bottle liquor (schnapps, brandy, vodka-- it's all good; during my trip to Slovenia I heard about everything from plums to potatoes being used in "schnapps" making)
1 box vinyl gloves
1 mason jar
Directions
In short, my plan was to buy a fire salamander of my own and milk the poison out of his glands without killing him. I found a place online that would ship a fire salamander directly to my door, and promptly ordered one. I set him up with a name (Mitchfordson II, in honor of a sick hummingbird I'd tried and failed to save earlier that year) and a cage, and gave him three weeks to adjust to his new digs.
Once he was fully settled in, it was time for the milking. I bought vinyl gloves to protect my hands, and in case he had a latex allergy. I conducted ten milking sessions over the course of thirty days. First, I'd rinse the gloves with distilled water to minimize the chances of hurting my little salamander friend, then I'd pick him up from his cage and massage the poison glands on the back of his head until he secreted a little bit.
As soon as there was poison on my gloves, I'd wash them off with vodka into a mason jar.
I'm not about to claim Mitchfordson II enjoyed being milked for his poison, but he also didn't seem overly stressed by it: His appetite stayed healthy, and, as of the writing of this book, he lives contentedly in my office terrarium. After thirty days of collection I found myself with about 150 milliliters of salamander schnapps--perhaps the first salamander schnapps outside Slovenia. I simmered it on the stove for a few minutes and then poured it back into the jar.
Now there was nothing left to do but try it.
Results
I drank all 150 milliliters over the course of twenty minutes. Initially, I didn't feel any different from being slightly drunk. I finished the jar and, solidly tipsy, decided it was time for bed. It was not a triumphant drunken pass out; I felt as if I'd failed to create anything beyond a glass of dirty vodka.
And then, about an hour later, I woke up to pee. This isn't an uncommon experience for drunk me, and I hopped up out of bed just sorta expecting my legs to do their normal leg work.
I almost fell flat on my ass.
Now, a shot glass is about 42 milliliters. So I'd drank a bit less than four shots in quick succession: enough to get me drunk, sure, but probably not enough to make me that clumsy an hour or so later. I went to the bathroom, wobbled to the kitchen, drank some water, and headed back to sleep. Maybe it was the salamander vodka, maybe I was just drunker than I expected to be.
But when I woke up the next morning, I still felt a little weird. My stomach hurt, and I felt slightly queasy after breakfast. About an hour after waking up I was at a gas station, filling my car up, when I realized I felt strangely light-headed and fuzzy. A cup of coffee didn't banish the feeling; my body felt strange, and my coordination was definitely off, for several hours. I didn't have any kind of profound erotic drug trip, as the legends suggested. But I did feel as if my legs were less steady.
Based on my experiences, I feel as though I can conclusively state that salamander schnapps is not a powerful hallucinogen, as Blaz Ogorevc claimed it to be. However, I will say that the drink seemed to "give more," as Miha Kozorog put it. It did not create a wildly different experience from drunkenness, but I certainly felt the aftereffects of my drinking much longer than I otherwise would've.
In conclusion: Mixing salamander poison with liquor might fuck you up more than liquor alone. But it won't make you fuck trees.
HOW TO: Make Cruelty-Free Salamander Schnapps
Obviously, the "traditional" method of brewing salamander schnapps wasn't something I was willing to re-create. No book would be worth torturing a small animal to death. But, after mulling it over a bit, I hit on a way to brew my own salamander schnapps without becoming a monster in the attempt. First I'd need:
Ingredients
1 European fire salamander
1 bottle liquor (schnapps, brandy, vodka-- it's all good; during my trip to Slovenia I heard about everything from plums to potatoes being used in "schnapps" making)
1 box vinyl gloves
1 mason jar
Directions
In short, my plan was to buy a fire salamander of my own and milk the poison out of his glands without killing him. I found a place online that would ship a fire salamander directly to my door, and promptly ordered one. I set him up with a name (Mitchfordson II, in honor of a sick hummingbird I'd tried and failed to save earlier that year) and a cage, and gave him three weeks to adjust to his new digs.
Once he was fully settled in, it was time for the milking. I bought vinyl gloves to protect my hands, and in case he had a latex allergy. I conducted ten milking sessions over the course of thirty days. First, I'd rinse the gloves with distilled water to minimize the chances of hurting my little salamander friend, then I'd pick him up from his cage and massage the poison glands on the back of his head until he secreted a little bit.
As soon as there was poison on my gloves, I'd wash them off with vodka into a mason jar.
I'm not about to claim Mitchfordson II enjoyed being milked for his poison, but he also didn't seem overly stressed by it: His appetite stayed healthy, and, as of the writing of this book, he lives contentedly in my office terrarium. After thirty days of collection I found myself with about 150 milliliters of salamander schnapps--perhaps the first salamander schnapps outside Slovenia. I simmered it on the stove for a few minutes and then poured it back into the jar.
Now there was nothing left to do but try it.
Results
I drank all 150 milliliters over the course of twenty minutes. Initially, I didn't feel any different from being slightly drunk. I finished the jar and, solidly tipsy, decided it was time for bed. It was not a triumphant drunken pass out; I felt as if I'd failed to create anything beyond a glass of dirty vodka.
And then, about an hour later, I woke up to pee. This isn't an uncommon experience for drunk me, and I hopped up out of bed just sorta expecting my legs to do their normal leg work.
I almost fell flat on my ass.
Now, a shot glass is about 42 milliliters. So I'd drank a bit less than four shots in quick succession: enough to get me drunk, sure, but probably not enough to make me that clumsy an hour or so later. I went to the bathroom, wobbled to the kitchen, drank some water, and headed back to sleep. Maybe it was the salamander vodka, maybe I was just drunker than I expected to be.
But when I woke up the next morning, I still felt a little weird. My stomach hurt, and I felt slightly queasy after breakfast. About an hour after waking up I was at a gas station, filling my car up, when I realized I felt strangely light-headed and fuzzy. A cup of coffee didn't banish the feeling; my body felt strange, and my coordination was definitely off, for several hours. I didn't have any kind of profound erotic drug trip, as the legends suggested. But I did feel as if my legs were less steady.
Based on my experiences, I feel as though I can conclusively state that salamander schnapps is not a powerful hallucinogen, as Blaz Ogorevc claimed it to be. However, I will say that the drink seemed to "give more," as Miha Kozorog put it. It did not create a wildly different experience from drunkenness, but I certainly felt the aftereffects of my drinking much longer than I otherwise would've.
In conclusion: Mixing salamander poison with liquor might fuck you up more than liquor alone. But it won't make you fuck trees.
svecka ::
Ljubljana je največji gnoj oziorma na Metelkovi, kjer azilantje posiljujejo študentke, te pa potem dobijo Stockholmom sindrom in zagovarjajo azilanta, da so same krive, da jih je posilil.
ginekk ::
Malidelničar ::
Sicer pa je en gor pravilno napisal, da vasi niso več tako odročne kot so bile, marsikatera se je zelo razvila. asfalt urejen, vodovod, elektrika, internet, ni da ni.
Meni bolj (nekatera) mestna predmestja delujejo kot geti, kot Nw York, Detroit v sedemdesetih ...
Meni bolj (nekatera) mestna predmestja delujejo kot geti, kot Nw York, Detroit v sedemdesetih ...
Don't invest like a Joe. Invest like a Simon.
jabe ::
Itak da ne... Nasa vas ima manj kot 10 his, pa imam optiko, 5G, stroma nikdar v 8 letih ni ven vrglo. Z avtom 5min do kranja, 15min do Ljubljane. Pa vseeno vse tok dalec, da mi noben sosed v talar ne vidi. Kvaliteta zivljenja in standard je bistveno višji kot v mestu. Drugace je seveda bilo svoj cajt, ko ni imela vsaka bajta 3 avtomobilov licno razporejenih na se enkrat toliko parkplacov, do stacune in sole je bilo pa treba 20min cez gmajno v bilo katerem vremenu... To lahko pocasi dodamo med mite oziroma arhaiko tipa moceradovca in smarnice.
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Malidelničar ::
Po napisanem sodeč je Poljanska dolina kar hardcore.
Btw. Poljanska dolina danes spada med najbolj premožne in urejene dele Slovenije. Verjetno ne rabijo močeradovca/šmarnice za zdravljenje depresije, ker je niti nimajo, ker jim gre zelo solidno.
Don't invest like a Joe. Invest like a Simon.
matobeli ::
Odkar imajo speljano obvoznico je tudi bistveno bolj dostopna. Problem je edino ker je Škofja Loka relativno razvita in se glavna cesta zabaše. Tko da je iz Kranja do Polan 45min vožnje.
l0g1t3ch ::
Po napisanem sodeč je Poljanska dolina kar hardcore.
Tam smo se rodili in kalili tisti najbl hardcore.
/zdej grem pa na Blegoš po močerade.
Malidelničar je izjavil:
Po napisanem sodeč je Poljanska dolina kar hardcore.
Btw. Poljanska dolina danes spada med najbolj premožne in urejene dele Slovenije. Verjetno ne rabijo močeradovca/šmarnice za zdravljenje depresije, ker je niti nimajo, ker jim gre zelo solidno.
In z najvišjo rodnostjo!
Zadnja enklava Slovencev!
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