A Moscow corporate party turned into a medical emergency when a celebrity chef's flashy

cryo show cocktail expanded inside a man's stomach like an internal airbag, rupturing the organ

and sending him to the ICU. And he's far from the only victim. I'm Darren Marler, and this is

Weird Dark News. Happy New Year, everybody, and welcome to our very first episode of Weird Dark News for

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Corporate holiday parties are notorious for awkward small talk with the accounting department,

questionable dancing by middle management, and that one co-worker who treats the open

bar like a personal challenge from God.

But a corporate Christmas party in Moscow just

last week, December 2025, added a new achievement to the list, sending a guest to emergency

surgery because the drinks were served at negative 196 degrees Celsius. Yeah, turns out the holiday

spirit can be deadly, especially when it has been

flash frozen with a cryogenic compound capable of rupturing internal organs. The incident occurred

at Igrastulov, which translates to Game of Tables, a culinary studio in Moscow that offers

cooking classes, children's events, and corporate

retreats.

On this particular evening, the studio had hired an unnamed celebrity chef to entertain

guests with a flashy cryo show, which is exactly what it sounds like, cocktails made

with liquid nitrogen, creating that dramatic fog effect beloved by mad scientists,

mixologists who think that they're mad scientists, and apparently anybody who wants to feel

like they're drinking at a Halloween-themed nightclub run by chemistry professors with poor

judgment.

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