The reindeer eat hallucinogenic mushrooms, then piss the active ingredients out. The drugs pass through the system without breaking down.
I don't know if they have the reindeer drink their piss to keep things going, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Damn. It's like that coffee they make out of shit from some tropical species of cat that eats coffee beans.
It's an Indonesia thing, and it's a civet that craps them out (which is indeed a type of feral cat).
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That's it. I'm just not adventurous enough to consume that. I'm sure boiling it disinfects it. But I'm not that much of a coffee enthusiast to try it.
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