Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/21/pousse-cafe.html
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Yep that sums up that drink right there.
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It does look gorgeous. I’m sure the combination of liquors wasn’t designed for flavor but for their colors and specific gravity, to make the visual effect.
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But just maybe it would be as pretty coming up as it did going down? On an empty stomach of course.
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It looks like a box jellyfish (Cubozoa), and I think drinking it might feel as deadly as being stung for a few seconds.
The bottom bracket on human deaths from box jellies is between 20-40 (National Science Foundation) and has be estimated as high as 100 in the link provided. The W.H.O. has alcohol related deaths at around ≈3 million per year (Out of ≈7.7 billion people) about 5% of all deaths worldwide.
Source: Photo modified by me. Original found at Wiki Commons, Box jellyfish at Bakoven Rock, by Peter Southwood, 2005
[Edits: added photo, improved sources, added and removed snarkiness]
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But then, think about the intersection of being drunk on a tropical beach and being stung by a box jellyfish. 
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One leads to the other sometimes.
Note to self: don’t take a selfie with a box jellyfish on my face.
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Gorgeous. Would drink.
Can’t be worse than a Cement Mixer.
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googles “Cement mixer”.
Good god.
You’re absolutely right.
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Both are better than a jersey turnpike
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EXACTLY.
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Well, how about some snake wine. With real snake. (The scorpion is reserved for our most special guests)
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Jellyfish? I prefer to order a drink less likely to piss off the bartender like an Irish car bomb
Or the Christmas version, the Nagasaki.
Half egg nog, half sake.
I see your snake wine and raise you a Sourtoe Cocktail.
The “jellyfish” is really bartender pus?
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u is next to i, truly i am owned
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Truly u am
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slowly i transform and shrink until i turn into a shunned poster
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Not as iconic as the Santorum Shot
In no possible universe am i gona google that!
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