Friday 7 February 2014

February 7th: Hangover Awareness Day

It's Hangover Awareness Day so here are 10 bizarre hangover remedies from around the world:


A Bloody Mary

  1. Pliny the Elder recommended a deep-fried canary, eaten whole, bones and all.
  2. Ancient Greeks treated hangovers with a breakfast of sheep lungs and two owl eggs.
  3. Sicilians with hangovers would eat dried bull penis. 
  4. 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). 
  5. Mongolians would drink a cocktail made of Tomato juice and pickled sheep's eyes. 
  6. 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.
  7. In the wild west cowboys drank a tea made of Rabbit droppings steeped in hot water. 
  8. Nineteenth century chimney sweeps were known to dose themselves with a lump of soot mixed into warm Milk.
  9. 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. 
  10. 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: 
  1. drinking lots of water,
  2. taking a couple of pain killers, 
  3. Vitamin B (found in marmite or vegemite) 
  4. Vitamin C
  5. A peanut butter, honey and banana sandwich on white bread (replaces sugars).
  6. Coffee
  7. More booze (Hair of the dog)
  8. Taking a hot bath
  9. Sleeping it off
  10. Going for a run.

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