Re:Torpedo juice: Legendary, illegal WWII liquor drunk in Al...
by int_19h on Thursday December 19, 2024 @02:58PM
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There's a legendary Russian recipe for drinking brake fluid. I've seen claims that this goes as far back as WW2, with Soviet soldiers using their Mosin rifles to treat German brake fluid in this manner.
1. Be someplace very cold.
2. Find a steel crowbar or something similar (metal and long).
3. Stick it in a bucket.
4. Drip brake fluid onto the exposed end such that the liquid flows slowly along the surface into the bucket.
This supposedly filters out most of the chemicals as they freeze onto the cold metal surface, leaving the liquid in the bucket drinkable.
I would strongly advise against actually trying this for real, though.
Here's an excerpt from "Inside the Soviet Army in Afghanistan" by Alexander Alexiev (US Army document):
You cannot imagine what they drink. They will drink shaving lotions and cologne. That's good stuff. Then they will drink toothpaste. The best one is the Bulgarian Pomorin brand. They will simply squeeze four or five tubes in a jar, dilute it with water and drink it. They also drank truck antifreeze, glue, and brake fluid. The brake fluid they used to heat up and put some nails in it for some reason. I don't know why. They will also take shoe polish and smear it on a piece of bread and leave it in the sun until the alcohol separates from the shoe polish. Then you eat the bread and get drunk.