Outputting Literal curly braces in Liquid templates

This is the only thing that worked from me. Lifted from here:

{{ "{{ this " }}}}

I needed this because I wanted to reference the site global variable from inside a mustache template.

You can also use raw:

{% raw %}

...lots of liquid code goes here and it doesn't get interpreted...

{% endraw %}

What about using the numeric HTML entities { and } for { and } respectively - presumably this is to be output as HTML?

EDIT: Forgive me, I'm not too familiar with liquid (so this might be very wrong), but can you assign your {{ example }} special value to a variable and output that? May be something like:

{% assign special = '{{ example }}' %}
{{ special }}