Urine Drinkers

I often make fun of the Taiwanese penchant for drinking urine. (Actually, I think there would be a market in Taiwan for a lightly carbonated urine drink "made from 100% pure baby urine.")

But apparently urine drinking is not just popular in the inscrutable Orient anymore. It is now finding new adherents in Florida of all places.

Urine drinker booted from job as crossing guard

Anyone dare do a google search for "urine therapy?" But for God's sake don't tell PJ that it will cleanse out his dead nose flesh! From the Skeptic's Dictionary:

Most devotees drink the midstream of their morning urine. Some prefer it straight and steaming hot; others mix it with juice or serve it over fruit. Some prefer a couple of urine drops mixed with a tablespoon of water applied sublingually several times a day. Some wash themselves in their own golden fluid to improve their skin quality. Many modern Japanese women are said to engage in urine bathing. The truly daring use their own urine as an enema. Urine is not quite the breakfast of champions, but it is the elixir of choice of a number of holy men in India where drinking urine has been practiced for thousands of years.