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A Whole New Meaning For "kao Jai" ?


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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_...icle5707554.ece

From Times Online, February 11, 2009, by Jeremy Page, Delhi

"India to launch cow urine as soft drink

excerpt :"Does your Pepsi lack pep? Is your Coke not the real thing? India's Hindu nationalist movement apparently has the answer: a new soft drink made from cow urine.

The bovine brew is in the final stages of development by the Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India's biggest and oldest Hindu nationalist group, according to the man who makes it.

Om Prakash, the head of the department, said the drink – called "gau jal", or "cow water" – in Sanskrit was undergoing laboratory tests and would be launched "very soon, maybe by the end of this year".

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Those of you who are real ancient-old-timers of the Bangkok scene may remember the Sala Thai BBS (text only, pre-Internet) where we once had a frequent poster discuss in detail how drinking his own kidney-water cured his psoriasis.

Now even though I am a soy-fanboy, I hold nothing against cows, oxen, water buffalo or any species bovine or ovine. I sometimes wish I could taste again the sensationally high-fat content rich yoghurt made from water-buffalo milk (in Hindi 'bnis' if memory serves me) I used to get in northern India. But while Hinduism refers to the cow as "panchgravya" (all five of its essences are beneficial), I draw the line at any cow fluid that does not come out an udder. That's not to say if I had earthen floors I wouldn't use cow urine to reduce dust, and as a disinfectant, as so widely practiced in India. And, hey : if you gotta burn dung for heat or cooking, you gotta burn dung; at least cows and other bovines are polite enough to give you patties ready for sun-drying.

So those of you who lisp or tend to say "kao jai" with an "l" sound, now you know.

~o:37;

p.s. please imagine that I have already read your comment that said "like this so off-topic."

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