WEEKLY GROSS-OUT: Baby mouse wine

Baby mice wine is a traditional Chinese and Korean "health tonic," which apparently tastes like raw petrol. Little mice, eyes still closed, are plucked from the embrace of their loving mothers and stuffed (while still alive) into a bottle of rice wine. They are left to ferment while their parents wring their tiny mouse paws in despair, tears drooping sadly from the tips of their whiskers. And that is why nobody would ever think to stock this drink in New Zealand. Mice are pets and they do not belong in our food and drink. Maybe in Korea, but not here.