What is snake urine soup and who came up with the idea?

I saw this in the news a couple years ago. Essentially, in Japan there is this very expensive soup which the baseball players or purhaps other athletes believe will give them strength. The origin of this belief is beyond me but they report showed them sipping this soup which was very expensive. They took rattlesnakes (I believe) and fed them nothing but fine rice wine. They collected the liquid waste and prepared it as the base for the soup or maybe the soup was nothing but the waste. Got me. Too weird for words. Of course the Zorastrians believe in the Bulls urine is sacred or that they can make a sacred drink from the urine of a bull. Tell me, who the heck is going to want to here this stuff but you. Are you going to share this new found urine soup knowlege with someone? I hope they want to talk to you after this.

The most discussing food that comes to mind is plecenta soup (sp??). Oh heck with it, I done with this topic.

Fred Freid

I think this is the second time you have asked this question...
I tried to answer it the first time, but google searching only brings this question and the first one you asked... Doh!!
This is not something I have ever heard of (not that I am aware of all foods!), but it sounded so curious, I wish I could research and actually uncover something for you...
Good luck with your search on this topic.

I remember seeing this on a tv show years ago. They would feed the snakes Saki and then collect their urine and add by spoonful to the soup bowl. Very expensive.