Comments on: How To: Cure a Hangover

By: Sara A.

Sara A. — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:16:09 +0000

My Russian roommate introduced me to a vat of hot unsweetened black tea that’s steeped until it is literally black and toast. Now I’ve only had one incapacitating hangover in my life and that combined with a judicious amount of water nursed me through it.

By: mywhimsey

mywhimsey — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:04:53 +0000

This is absolutely the hangover cure that works best – I’ve looked at many (perhaps too many) champagne hangovers and nothing else comes close to touching them. A further refinement for those in the northeast on “passover coke”: The 2L bottles have a yellow cap and are marked with an “OU-P” symbol and/or the words Kosher L’Pesach in Hebrew. If you’re really, really lucky and you live in a big city, you might be able to find the cans of real sugar coke. If you do, please tell me where, because I will go there! The real sugar makes all the difference.

By: LL

LL — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:36:04 +0000

Red wine hangover – Starbuck’s coffee. I know, it’s evil and burnt and blah dee bloop, but it’s the only coffee I’ve found that gets rid of the tannin fog and gives me back my ability to see color after a night of pinot.

Any other hangover – Trudy’s migas and fajitas, washed down with any kind of brown soft drink (coke, dr. pepper, diet coke.) Iced tea will not work! I think the bubbles help clean my mental pipes or something.

By: Rabrab

Rabrab — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:15:17 +0000

In comparing hangover-relief combinations (including my preferred one, an ice-cream bar and a cup of coffee with cream and sugar), I’ve noticed that most of them tend to rely on the same things: Caffeine, sugar, fat, largish amounts of fluid, or some combination of the four. The sole exception is the “more alcohol” technique, which I never found to work — you still get all the pain, just later.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:41:11 +0000

Another variant is a “powder” – BC or Goody’s — and a ginger ale (dry) upon arising, followed by coffee, eggs and toast — when you are up to it.
Some swear by substituting a Bloody Mary for the breakfast food.

By: All Women Stalker

All Women Stalker — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:25:43 +0000

I think the best cure for a hangover is a short Yoga for the Hungover session, some water, and a big healthy breakfast.

By: Abby

Abby — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:34:30 +0000

Hangovers, hair of the dog. But who cares, I want the dirt on the pimento cheese!

By: La Petite Acadienne

La Petite Acadienne — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:29:15 +0000

It depends on the hangover. If it’s a seedy, headachey hangover, then I find that a big bowl of steel-cut oatmeal chased down with three cups of black coffee tends to do the trick. If it’s a nauseated hangover, then I start with a cool (but not cold) glass of water with lemon in it, followed by much bacon and some toast.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:47:40 +0000

Hi other Lisa! Pepsi should work just fine. Plumcake’s hangover remedy is like my migrane-stopper. If I take two advil and a coke, I can prevent a migrane from going big on me when I first feel the pain coming on. I think the caffeine in the soda accelerates how fast you absorb the aspirin or pain killer and gives you a sugar boost.

And always drink the water.

By: AmazonAngelle

AmazonAngelle — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:11:41 +0000

My best hangover remedy is a greasy breakfast and a few cans of Coke and it was good however now I have to go find Mexican Coke. Would any pure cane sugar work or is it the combo of caffeine and sugar?

P.S. @Lisa I too am from the D! *waves* Hi