Worst. Drink. Ever.

What is it? The bartender called it the day's special, and then snickered. Welcome to Takahashi, where your blue, fizzy, yogurt-flavored alcoholic "special" soda on ice may require a quick vaccination: anyone fancy a glass of Tori Influenza?

Takahashi confirmed cases of bird flu this week, which has meant a mass slaughter of all local poultry and occasional surveillance of the Kawakami area by helicopter. Do they really need a helicopter to spot runaways? Any stray would be chased and chopped by a granny with a walker and a sashimi knife, surely. Do they think a chicken is going to hitch a ride down the 180 and sneeze on all its friends in Soja? Maybe the helicopter is meant to see what is coming IN to the town, so that there will be someone to blame. Like... oh... maybe an UNCLEAN FOREIGNER transporting germs from an UNCLEAN FOREIGN COUNTRY? Like... oh... maybe that ALT chick who just went to Thailand? Wasn't Dimple coughing and clucking while trying to sneak past quarantine? Blame Dimple!!

Chickens in the fridge, y'all. This is the face of Bird Flu.