Just because you do not swallow the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mescal does not mean you have avoided the essential worminess of the potent Mexican liquor, according to scientists from the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO) at the University of Guelph. They have discover the the mescal liquor contains DNA of the famously tasty mescal "worm." Their theory is the the DNA from a preserved specimen can leak into its presevative liquid, which was sampled from a bottle of Monte Ablban brand mescal. The liquor was found to contain this DNA. When they compare this DNA to others they found that the DNA is related to the butterfly.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100209152303.htm
This does not sound like you would want to drink this drink if worm DNA is going into it. And I also can't see how they can sell a drink that they do not exactly know what type of things could also be leaking into this drink. Especially because they are relating it to a butterfly, which definitely seems like they are taking a risk into the unknown of the drink.
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