[SamAdams76]

She didn’t notice that what she was drinking was at more than 300 degrees below zero and exploded in her mouth as soon as it hit her tongue?

What kind of bar would even serve a drink like this?

[Steely Tom]

I did a lot of very risky things in the lab after everyone left, some involving liquified gasses, big lasers, big thyratron-switched power supplies, big low-inductance capacitor banks, huge electromagnets, acetylene torches, muffle furnaces, abrasive cut-off wheels, 50K rpm centrifuges, anechoic chambers, molten metal, molten salt baths, induction heaters... came through it fine, and no one found out. On one or two occasions, a wee bit of spectroscopic-grade C₂H₅OH was involved as well.

I never, in my wildest moment of off-the-wallness, ever for one second contemplated putting liquid nitrogen in my mouth. I had it soaked up to the calves of my jeans once though, although that situation didn't last very long.

[shibumi]

"That is beyond stupi..... Falls into criminal ...."

"What kind of bar would even serve a drink like this?"


In most States in the US (I can't say for sure "all" States) it is illegal to even use dry ice (frozen CO2) in cocktails. The dangers of dry ice are mild compared to liquid nitrogen. It may never have occurred to anyone to make nitrogen illegal thinking that its use in something for consumption would be too far fetched.

But obviously the limits of human stupidity have been stretched once again.

[expat1000]

Last month the bar posted a picture on its Facebook page of a cocktail which contained liquid nitrogen called the Pornstar Martini.
Sold for £8.95 with a shot of champagne, the bar called it ‘amazing’.