An Australian teenager has died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos in what Australia’s prime minister on Thursday called every parent’s nightmare. An American and two Danish tourists also died, officials said, following reports that several people had been sickened in a Laotian town popular with backpackers.

  • RandAlThor@lemmy.caOP
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    Yeah home brew whiskey is a tradition there apparently according to a Bourdain vlog I saw some years ago. People have to be careful with that stuff.

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      I tasted it and immediately I had red flags go up in my mind, the bottles I tried(had to make sure) definitely tasted homemade and not completely divorced from methanol