Generally on New Year’s Eve, the ol’ “everything in moderation” advice your mama gave you goes out the window, and you’ll likely be spending the first day of 2011 paying for it. But you know what they say: The best for a hangover cure is to keep on drinking. If you’re going to power through and chase last nights regrets with more booze, take some advice from the experts.
Tom’s Little Havana
Steve Cross, the friendly face behind the bar at Tom’s, suggests you try his Caesar to cure any rumbling in your guts or blinding headaches. He serves his breakfast-friendly bevvy with a spicy bean and plenty of horseradish. 5428 Doyle Street, 423-8667
The Old Triangle
A pint of Guinness to take the edge off is a standard for bartender Jon Ells, but he also recommends a thirst-quenching red eye (a hearty mix of beer and Clamato juice) or a shandy (three quarters of a pint of Keith’s topped up with ginger ale) to ease the day-after tummy troubles. 5136 Prince Street, 492-4900
The Loose Cannon
If you find yourself at The Loose Cannon with a hangover from hell and aren’t steered towards the reliable Caesar, the suggestion will likely be a screwdriver (one ounce of vodka in orange juice). Bar staff here agrees that the key is to stick to juice mixes to keep hydrated while knocking them back. 1566 Argyle Street, 407-8797
This article appears in Dec 30, 2010 – Jan 5, 2011.
Red Eye is beer and tomato juice, Clam Eye is beer and Clamato
A hangover is your body suffering withdrawal from whatever substance it was just binging on. The no-coffee headache, the booze hangover, the smack shakes; it’s all pretty much the same. Lessen the effects of withdrawal by moderating your body off the substance gradually, saying “never again”; and then forgetting all that until next time!
No Go local, a hang over is severe dehydration and espesially localized dehydration of your brain ( your brain is surrounded by fluid to help protect it and to allow it to carry on massive cellular function. ) This dehydration is caused by your liver borrowing the water from your brain to process alcohol. you see your liver needs massive quantitys of water to break down toxins like alcohol and does not care where it takes it from.
Shouldn’t it be “day-after antidotes”, not “anecdotes”? As in cures, rather than stories.
Really, both antidote or anecdote can work. I chatted with bartenders about their experiences with hungover folk and what “cures” they recommend.
If you had included the stories bartenders told you about hungover folk in your article, then you would be correct. However, saying “Joe Bartender at Downtown Bar says caesars are a good hangover cure” does not qualify as an anecdote. With all due respect, even if your article is based on anecdotes gleaned from bartenders, there are no actual anecdotes in the article, nor even reference to anecdotes, therefore the use of ‘anecdote’ in the title remains rather inapt.