A Bloody Mary |
- Pliny the Elder recommended a deep-fried canary, eaten whole, bones and all.
- Ancient Greeks treated hangovers with a breakfast of sheep lungs and two owl eggs.
- Sicilians with hangovers would eat dried bull penis.
- In Ireland it was said that the cure for a hangover was to get your mates to bury you up to the neck in moist river sand (provided they weren't too hungover themselves to do it).
- Mongolians would drink a cocktail made of Tomato juice and pickled sheep's eyes.
- A popular US remedy is the Prairie Oyster, a cocktail of ingredients that include Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, salt n' pepper, and a whole raw egg. Optional ingredients include a shot of vodka, ketchup or tomato juice, and vinegar.
- In the wild west cowboys drank a tea made of Rabbit droppings steeped in hot water.
- Nineteenth century chimney sweeps were known to dose themselves with a lump of soot mixed into warm Milk.
- The Romanians, Mexicans and Turks all recommend tripe soup. Tripe, offal made from the digestive tract of pigs or cows, boiled in a greasy, salty soup with Garlic and cream.
- Haitian voodoo practitioners would stick 13 black-headed pins into the cork of the bottle that made them drunk.
If you don't fancy trying any of those, though, 10 suggested modern remedies are:
- drinking lots of water,
- taking a couple of pain killers,
- Vitamin B (found in marmite or vegemite)
- Vitamin C
- A peanut butter, honey and banana sandwich on white bread (replaces sugars).
- Coffee
- More booze (Hair of the dog)
- Taking a hot bath
- Sleeping it off
- Going for a run.
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