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World's Strangest Liquors

From Pizza Beer to Lizard wine, gimmicks and folklore attract the curious

By Victoria Floethe, Newser User

Posted Jan 7, 2009 12:42 PM CST

(Newser) – Necessity may have been the mother of invention for these traditional brewers, but a good marketing scheme has never hurt sales, either. (Remember the worm in the mescal trick?) Travel and Leisure gives us the world's most bizarre liquors:

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