Help Find the ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ Secret Meth Recipe

Part of the secret meth code?

This is, for lack of a better term, a pretty WTF story right here. Apparently when playing through Grand Theft Auto IV in order to rate it, the British Board of Film Classification discovered a hidden recipe for crystal meth in the game. That would be weird enough, as presumably they misinterpreted something innocent, but nope, Rockstar admits that it’s there. Well, sort of.

“During a playthrough of the game for its classification last year, the British Board of Film Classification “discovered an apparent recipe for the manufacture of the drug crystal meth”, which prompted “crisis talks with Rockstar” over their inclusion.

It was only after Rockstar informed the BBFC that the recipe was “inaccurate” that it was allowed to stay in the game, and the title could go on sale to the public.”

So uh, what? I played Grand Theft Auto IV for dozens of hours, as did all my friends and everyone else on the internet, yet I have never, ever heard about this. I would maybe expect this from Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars which actually has a drug dealing minigame, but GTA IV? I thought the biggest secret there was the beating heart inside the Statue of Liberty.

So I’m enlisting you, the public, to help me figure out just where the hell this secret, fake meth recipe is. Hidden in graffiti? Spelled out in license plates? Written using fridge magnets at your hideout? Where?

[via Kotaku]