Devil's Picnic

Just finished reading the book "The Devil's Picnic" by Taras Grescoe. The author travels the world in search of illicit and illegal food and drink. He enters Singapore with a bag full of outlawed chewing gum, he hunts down real moonshine absinthe in Switzerland, and chews coca leaves in Bolivia. The book has a solid examination of the history of prohibition, and how some current laws work in some societies, but not in others. It's all a fun read, at least until the last chapter, on legal euthanasia, which is downright disturbing.



There's also some weird meat in there -- hunting for criadillas (bull's balls) in Barcelona, in an EU-regulated Spain, and how to smuggle stinky raw milk cheeses into North America. Does the European Union mean no more weird meat in future Europe? What do you think about the EU's regulations on food and beverage? Comment below...