Severed Snake Head Kills Chef Cooking Cobra Soup

International Business Times ^ | August 23, 2014 | Aaron Akinyemi

[a fool in paradise]

[newfreep]

[Califreak]

Aren’t you supposed to smash the head immediately to avoid this?

Wouldn’t anyone who has ever lived where snakes are know this?

Did he pick it up with his bare hands?

Tongs.

[PUGACHEV]

When I was a kid, I used to hunt snakes with a pellet pistol. If you draw a line between the snake’s two eyes, and then aim just behind the middle of that line, that’s where you place your shot for an instant kill. If you miss, the snake will focus all its attention on striking you and move directly at you, with its head raised off the ground. Your second shot better be on the mark.

[keat]

From HowStuffWorks.com:

Both King Charles I and Queen Anne Boleyn are reported to both have showed signs of trying to speak following their beheadings (by executioners’ swords, rather than by guillotine). German researcher S.T. Sommering cited reports of decapitated heads that have ground their teeth and that the face of one decapitated person “grimaced horribly” when a physician inspecting the head poked the spinal canal with his finger.

Perhaps most famously was the study conducted by a Dr. Beaurieux in 1905 of the head of executed criminal Henri Languille. Over the course of 25 to 30 seconds of observation, the physician recorded managing to get Languille to open his eyes and “undeniably” focus them on the doctor’s twice by calling the executed man’s name.

[The_Reader_David]

It so happens the snake is only mostly dead! And mostly dead is slightly alive!

(With apologies to Billy Crystal and William Goldman.)

[Brother Cracker]

Secret of making cobra soup — first pull fangs:

http://www.travelchannel.com/video/making-king-cobra-soup-12031#

[BipolarBob]

Other than that, how was the soup?

[jimmyray]

Thanks for the video! Not at all what I imagined when I read "when the snake's severed head bit him with venom as he was throwing it into the bin". I just figured his hand brushed the fang or some such.

Just WOW.

[Cvengr]

I hate it when that happens.

I never can figure out how much to tip.

If you don’t leave a tip, they’ll think you are arrogant.

If you leave a typical tip, they’ll think you didn’t care.

If you leave a larger tip, they’ll think you hated the cook.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

When I was a kid, my friend and I caught big snapping turtles in the canal and river. Biggest was 63 pounds! We’d butcher them and sell the meat to a Deli in Cleveland. When we cut off the heads, we’d throw them in the fire, cuz they’d snap at anything that got close! Up to 18 hours.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Good one! You made me laugh out loud.

[Larry Lucido]

The “Soup Cobra”?

[Mastador1]

I hate it when that happens.

You kill Indochinese spitting cobra, it will kill you right back!

[tflabo]

Should have hired a radical muslim or at least have a little Ghengis Khan in your snake cooking chefs just to make sure the beheads are to be deads.

[Starstruck]

Peng died before he could be treated in hospital with life-saving anti-venom, police said.

Wonder if he had a COBRA.

[Caipirabob]

Horrible...

[ontap]

Shotgun...snake head....no problem!!!

[TexasCajun]

The Sous Chef exclaimed:

Sum Fang Wong?

[skinkinthegrass]

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