Snake bitten cock in a pot.

Snake bitten cock in a pot sounds like one of those strange things you'd see on the Engrish site. You know, someone's got very confused about what Coq au Vin is. Or perhaps some ghastly sexual perversion that only three people have ever heard of.

Oddly though, it's even stranger than that. It's a real Chinese meal:

Chinese health authorities are putting a stop to restaurants serving chickens which have been bitten to death by poisonous snakes and cooked up for a supposedly detoxing meal.

The dish, served by a small number of eateries in the southern province of Guangdong and the southwestern city of Chongqing, has generated a storm of publicity and controversy in the Chinese media and amongst bloggers.

A video showing a cook holding a snake and forcing it to bite a live chicken until it dies has been widely circulated online.

Jeepers. I know there are parts of China where absolutely anything is food but that's ludicrous!