Weird drinks – Travel Corkboard's travellers' tales
Guardian Travel readers' holiday horror stories - thanks to everyone who contributed
@GuardianTravel Lurid green cocktail, a bubbling, steaming concoction served in a goldfish bowl. Where else but Las Vegas? #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Had an oyster mojito in Abu Dhabi. Not good. Had fermented horse milk in Kazakhstan. It was worse. #travelcorkboard
RT @louisegoldsbury: @GuardianTravel Weirdest drink on travels - deep fried beer at Texas state fair 2011 #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Wierdest drink I might yet get served at Hokitika wildfood festival 2012 bit.ly/x2mIqS @wildfoodHQ #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Weirdest drink was fermented palm seed milk in East Timor. Tasted like a combo of soil and vomit. #TravelCorkboard
RT @EsmeFox: Weirdest drink I've been served on my travels was rat's blood in Laos! #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel southern comfort with a pint of pure unadulterated lime juice in Le Franc, Spain. #sour #drankitanyway #travelcorkboard
@oohkatieq @GuardianTravel In South Africa we drink the same but replace pure lime juice with lime cordial. #lessthanapint #travelcorkboard
@GuardianTravel Mongolia, drank Airag. Fermented mare's milk, think yoghourty beer....have picture of woman milking horse! #TravelCorkboard- @GuardianTravel Cava ceremony in Fiji when I was 10. I dont know why my parents approved of me drinking muddy narcotic brew #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Peruvian fermented corn punch (non alcoholic) or egg white whisked Pisco sours from Argentina are amazing #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Cava- spicy pepper root drink filtered thru muslin, numbs the tongue & has the effect of a joint - in Fiji. #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel lao-lao out of what looked suspiciously like an old petrol can in Si Phan Don, Laos #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel home brewed rice wine in Nepal, don't think my throat recovered for a week. #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Fisherman's Friend flavoured vodka in a seaside bar in Naantali, Finland #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Avocado milkshake (surprisingly tasty) at a Nuwara Elia b&b. Supposed to ward off leeches. Didn't work. #TravelCorkboard- @GuardianTravel Also Mongolia, tea with reindeer milk. Hairiest-tasting tea I've ever drunk. Served with goat fat muffins. #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel Tibetan yak butter tea but made with regular butter in a Tibetan restaurant in Paris. Not recommended! #TravelCorkboard
Xhosa brew made from maize husks in Gugulethu township, South Africa. Dish of the day was a goat's head on oildrum outside #TravelCorkboard
Zulu beer in KwaZulu Natal. It's made w maize and sorghum and brewed by women who spit in it to start the fermentation ... #travelcorkboard
@GuardianTravel #TravelCorkboard It took all my social politeness to finish the African Ivory Coast Palm Wine I was given.
@GuardianTravel A dingdong in Tonga, to cure my jetlag-pure cola syrup,double espresso & red bull–kept me awake for a week #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel I drank liquidised sheep brains in South East Asia. Chickeny taste. #TravelCorkboard
@GuardianTravel #TravelCorkboard wasp whiskey and scorpion vodka whilst tubing in Laos. Amazing 3 days.
Kava in Fiji. Peppery, mashed up root-drug, infused thru an old bandana and shared in a wooden communal bowl. Numb lips! #TravelCorkboard
