i ate a cobra this week. it was wild. i had asked my buddy zack last weekend where a good dog restaurant was and he told me that on monday he and another guy ted were going out for snake if i would like to join. hell yes i wanna join. so i took the evening off work and we headed out to a snake house. zack had eaten cobra before and didn't like it but was willing to be our escort and after a long journey we found the place. i half expected it do be some back alley dodgy place, cause thats the kind of place zack had tried cobra at, but this place was really a nice fancy joint. we sat down and ordered beers and without even seeing a menu the waitress ask if we would like to have snake this evening, she knew why we were there. we asked to see the snake and we were taken into the back. the snake was already out of its cage and they were toying with it. this thing was huge, at least five feet long and it raised up and flared its hood ready to strike. wow i have only ever seen a cobra at the zoo and here was one that i was about to eat. after negotiating the price and ordering the three different ways it would be prepared for us, they asked if we wanted to watch it get killed, yep, and into the back again. after cutting of its head the blood was drained into a bottle of vodka, and the heart and bile sack were removed and placed in shots of vodka. both ted and i wanted to try the heart so we had it cut in half and even after that it was still beating. i'll be honest taking that shot with half a beating heart in it made me feel kind of queasy but it made drinking the bloody vodka through the meal easier. we had the stomach, liver and guts sauteed with onions and lemon grass, the meat barbecued, and also minced with peanuts, and the skin fried. i thought it tasted pretty good, although barbecued was hard to eat cause there were so many bones. i really glad i did this cause i feel like it was a once in a lifetime opportunity and an experience i will not soon forget.
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