I have no idea why this popped into my head this morning, but I remembered that certain people like to drink reindeer wee in order to have a good time. It seems the reindeer like to eat the dangerous Fly Agaric toadstool (the red spotted mushroom famously associated with fairy rings) to get a bit trippy. They are able to metabolise the toxic compounds, but crucially not the hallucinogenic and psychotropic ones which are excreted intact in their urine. So by collecting, and yes, drinking the urine of stoned reindeer you can experience much the same thing without running the risk of dying from mushroom poisoning. In fact, it seems you can create a virtuous circle because we don't metabolise the magic compounds either, so the reindeer can gobble up a patch of yellow snow produced by a flying shaman and start the whole clycle over again.
There's a fairly large amount of info online showing how this all ties in with Father Christmas and his, ahem, flying reindeer but nobody seems interested in the most important question.
What on earth made someone decide to have a swig of reindeer wee in the first place?
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