The Chicago Tribune's list of hangover remedies (water, wheatgrass, some other stuff) probably doesn't contain anything you haven't heard before, but the suggestion of "tomato juice with a shot of lime juice and sugar" intrigues: I've been drinking a glass of V8 every morning for the last month or so and my hangovers—Lord knows I'm not drinking any less these days—have been considerably more tolerable. Maybe I'll try adding sugar and lime. And a little vodka, just to balance it out. [Via Pat's Papers, which includes a choice Kinglsey Amis quote.]
I always buy V8 in advance of any bender. Combined with some Excedrin Migraine and it's better than those electric paddles they give you in the ambulance.
Otherwise their article is a list of things I will simply vomit up before bed or sometime later the next day. I've tried those chaser pills a couple times now and I do believe they helped alleviate the day after effects to a certain degree.
The problem with the chaser pills is when you cough up charcoal.
Hiking works for me. But they probably can't do that in Chicago because there are no hills and it's most likely freezing there now.
BLASPHEMER!
Am I still in the drinking thread? WTF wip??
Two hours of yoga.
(**Prepares for execution.)
I require, in order, water, Advil, some combination of potato+grease+Tabasco sauce, a Coca-Cola, water, Red Bull.
It sounds highly unrealistic that ONE V8 is going to change my life.
Coca-Cola for realz.
I think it contains powdered horn of unicorn or something?
The entire Kingsley Amis piece on the metaphysical hangover is required reading. If we follow Aristotle that the first pleasure of art is recognition ("houtos ekeinos" — "this one is that one"), then, per me, that essay is the best thing written by anyone ever.
I usually just check if I have any leftover coke.
That just brings a different hangover altogether.
Oh thank God. You know, I never wanted to say anything because I didn't want to hurt your feelings but that green tea you used to drink every morning? Made you look like a pussy.
When I did have hangovers, the only think that worked was bread and gingerale.
Extra spicy ginger beer and salt and vinegar potato chips.
All you are missing is tylenol+codeine (Solpadeine MAX! Tylenol 3!)
Yum! Or the French one that is tylenol + codeine + caffeine. That's a good one too.
Oh, wow–a work week version, too? Good news!
I'm so tired I can't write.
See, it really comes down to your hangover is what you had last night.
A) Friends homebrew beer chased with balkan liquor smuggled back by your friends peacekeeping older brother = Ha forget it. It's a day of pain and cursing the world. And puking.
B) Club drinks (things that end in "tini" et al) = That's not a hangover you pussy (See "A" above), though raw egg, tabasco, salt in galss with water should do the trick.
C) Lager = Vindaloo or Chip Butty.
D) Red, Red, wine = Potato chips (Sea salt and Vinegar), Bread and puking, asparin.
E)Drinks that are coloured unnatural shades of blue= You'll want to induce puking, but after that cold leftover pizza with left over mixer should do the trick.
F) too much Gin = good luck.
G) All the bourbon in Manhattan = Trader Joe's shu mai and a liter of seltzer
SELTZER DOES WRORK.
. Too much gin= when I break out the prayer.
Nothing like Gin to give you HARDCORE shakes and a sour stomach all day.
Big Mac and Fries. Absorbs the booze still in you and makes a hasty departure out your poopshoot.
Surely that's "chute?" But your methods are sound.
No he means "shoot". McDonalds + Liquor = Explosive diarrhea.
Trust me.
Wheat grass actually does work for a more mild hangover, but where's the fun in that? Hangovers are the best excuse for watching bad television and eating even worse food.
+ weed.
And a little vodka, just to balance it out.
You're doing it wrong. 7 Pilsner Urquells and a day of watching sports on the couch. Even if it's Wednesday.
Shades drawn or no?