A snake caught sneaking into a college dorm in China met its fate after students reportedly decided to turn it into their dinner, cooking it up into a stew.
Most of us have experienced slightly desperate times as students, usually reaching into the back of the cupboard for an old can of beans or a pack of super noodles that may or may not have gone out of date two years ago.
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When you're skint and/or too hungover to go to the shop, you're usually happy to make do with what you've got, and save the fancy steak dinners for when the next batch of your student loan comes in.
However, the majority of students haven't quite got to the stage of resorting to the slithering wildlife that rocks up at your dorm - as these people in China reportedly did.
According to a website called Sina, the male students decided not to run off scared when they spotted the snake - as no doubt most of us would have done - but instead decided to catch it, skin it and chop it up, before popping it in a stew along with some red dates, ginseng, orange peels, Angelica root and leeks.
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After news spread on campus of the, erm, opportunistic meal, a teacher at the university reportedly confirmed that the incident had taken place. The teacher added that they weren't impressed with what had happened, and explained that the students involved received a lecture about how they had harmed the image of the school.
According to Shanghaiist, last week another snake was reportedly a little bit more fortunate after being discovered in a home, being spared the same fate of the reptile found in the students' residence.
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It had apparently been found hanging out inside the squat toilet of a sixth floor flat in a Chengdu residential high-rise, having made its way all the way up there after escaping from an upstairs neighbour - who had planned to use it to make medicinal 'snake wine' that would help conquer her lower back pain.
While eating snakes isn't particularly common in many places, it's not as unusual in some part of Asia.
In China, Catonese snake soup is thought to have been a delicacy in China for over two thousand years.
As well as China, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Cambodia are all places where snake is sometimes valued for its apparently pharmaceutical benefits.
Featured Image Credit: SinaTopics: Food, News, Snake, China