Mountain Food
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Walking down Kintoki-yama yesterday we found a shack where coffee was being sold and stopped for a cup (it was not quite the worst coffee I’d ever had). The old guy who ran the place made snake booze — a bottle of liquor in which, yes, a snake is pickled (only mamushi, a fairly common poisonous snake, are used). He unscrewed the lid, reached in and pulled the snake out to show me. “Makes you strong,” he said, shaking his hand dry. He gave me a shot (on the house) and — whoa! — I felt strong.
On the table outside where we sat and drank our coffee (which could have used some snake in it) was a bowl filled with mountain food. The old guy explained what everything was, but apart from the acorns and chestnuts, I can’t remember the names of anything. We didn’t eat any of it; I think the arrangement was more decorative than tasty and anyway, I had some snake to keep me warm.
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Posted to Photographs • 2003.10.27 (Mon) • 19:04
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Posted by p 2003.10.28, 02:12
i wonder if the dead snake absorbs alcohol like the worm in the bottle of tequila does (worms in tequila absorb 10 times their body weight in liquor, which is usually why people throw up after eating them).
Posted by Nancy 2003.11.03, 04:30
You know … that bowl of mountain food would make a lovely icon. Not that I’m hinting or anything. It’s a delicious picture (no pun intended, of course).
Posted by Abhimanyu Chirimar 2003.11.06, 14:54
Like this composition.
Posted by Mountain bike in Tuscany 2004.02.22, 03:11
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