Hangover Foods?

[ipsedixit]

Not necessarily the therapeutic kind, but just foods you eat to make you "feel" better when one too many games of quarters were played the night before ...

Here's my list:

1. Big Mac
2. PB&J
3. Wasabi and grated ginger in congee

You?

[akp]

Two words:

Coca Cola

[rabaja]

Totally, with the small cubes of ice, or shaved even. Heaven.

[NovoCuisine]

My mother swears by Coke too. I prefer a sparkling water. I think it's the bubbles that do the trick either way.

[Pei]

Menudo
Turkey congee
Slightly charred toast with plenty of butter
Meaty stews
Coffee

[SuzMiCo]

Mac & cheese
baked potato
french fries

Sensing a very starchy theme here?

When things are really bad:
saltines, applesauce, and ginger ale

[MeowMixx]

Spicy soupy stuff - yuk kae jang, pho, bloody mary's......

[Grubbjunkie]

Ordinarily I crave a greasy, salty and meaty breakfast, like a traditional two-egger with sausage, hash browns, and toast with lots of butter. Later in the day I usually want pasta carbonara - that is, pasta with bacon and eggs!

[DanielleM]

That does it for me -- egg and cheese sandwich on a bagel, usually -- with some butter on the bagel.

[shanda013]

big mac
dr pepper or coca cola
bisquits n gravy
fried green tomatoes
taco bell
snacks every 30minutes.

[Davwud]

Bacon
Big Mac
Kraft Dinner (Mac and Cheese)
Water.

DT

[rosielucchesini]

Egg McMuffin w/Cheese and Hash Browns (but no OJ-too acidic for the stomach).

[MuppetGrrl]

Ham, egg and cheese on an english muffin with a side of OJ/carrot juice.

[MRS]

Please don't puke...Cool Ranch Doritos are the cure for all that comes with a hangover!

[King of Northern Blvd]

A couple of more "Morning Beers"

[AimeeD]

cheeseburger and bloody mary breakfast

[piccola]

Toast with honey.

Congee, oatmeal or grits.

Eggs with sautéed mushrooms and veggie baked beans.

Corn Flakes mixed with broken arrowroot cookies and milk.

Cold pizza.

[QuaffStout]

Pozole- all the deliciousness of menudo without the tripe

[Will Owen]

For some of us, me included, that does not compute. It's like "all the advantages of being married without the sex."

Aside from the fact that the deliciousness of menudo is pretty much all about the tripe, there's also the heavy-duty protein component that it provides. This may be only an old hangover veteran's perception, but I swear I can feel that gummy glutinous protein broth from the tripe knitting my fragmented brain tissues back together.

[condiment]

In that vein: birria, a spicy Jalisco-style goat stew that is extremely popular on Sunday mornings. The trick is fighting evil with a greater evil.

[Mission]

Steinlager Beer..Big bottle

[mollyomormon]

Here in LA, breakfast at Tommy's. Sounds disgusting, but it works for me.

[JasmineG]

French fries and Coke. McDonalds breakfast also works, but often for the bad hangover days, I'm not up until after breakfast is already over there.

[jcpageca]

Huevos rancheros.

[chilehound]

I'm with the huevos with hot green chile.

[amandine]

water water water water

[sourisverte]

01. Anything deep fried - specifics depend on local availability and time of day. Mushrooms, onions, and potatos are always good!

02. Buttered wholegrain toast with eggs sunnyside up or scrambled, and a shake or two of tabasco.

03. Slightly stale pumpernickel, egg, wheat, or marble bagel with butter and a large glass of orange or grapefruit juice.

04. Schweppes Ginger Ale.

[Sharuf]

At lunchtime, wonton soup sure helps.

At breakfast time, a big plateful of hashbrowns smothered in gravy. Really! And a mug of coffee and a glass of milk to go with it.

[Janet from Richmond]

-Taco Bell
-A big combo platter from your favorite Mexican place
-Chili cheese omelet
-Pancakes
-Cheeseburger and fries
-Coffee
-Diet coke

[NovoCuisine]

I see a couple people have already mentioned beer. A beer and a bacon sandwich is all I can think about when waking up from a rough night.

[Phoenix Foodie]

Mexican food, nearly any kind. A hearty burrito will always do the trick.

And any soda with sugar. I think the sugar aspect of it can be just as satisfying as the carbonation.

When I'm truly hungover, my sense of taste is dumbed down. It usually takes very strong (often sweet) flavors to help bring things back.

[sheilal]

Buffalo Rock Ginger Ale. I think this is fairly regional for the South. But boy, does it work. Extra ginger-y. It has quite a bite. Puts Schwepps and Canada Dry to shame!!!!

[beevod]

A large glass of Guinness stout,two slices of cold pizza, 4 aspirins and....................time.

[LindaWhit]

A big glass of milk, to start. Coating my stomach, maybe? And then plain scrambled eggs and toast or an English muffin. To soak up anything left in my tummy. :-)

[bigmackdaddy]

Spicy chili and/or matzoh ball soup with a ton of noodles, heavily buttered toast and ice cold milk.

[MBShapiro]

McDonalds number 1, super sized with a coke and a filet o fish on the side with extra tartar sauce.

[swsidejim]

sausage Mcmuffin with egg, and 3 hasbrowns..

Gyros & Eggs in Greektown

Or:

Hair of the dog, Tequilla sunrise

[foodieX2]

steak and cheese sub w/ grilled onions, xlarge fries, lots of water w/ and gatorade chaser

[Mill City Modern]

First, some Gatorade.

Then, a fried egg sandwich with bacon and cheese on it, and a bloody mary with a beer chaser.

[NovoCuisine]

Gatorade! That's a great call. Electrolytes and all.

[piccola]

My roommate swears by this. I can always tell when he's been out partying because of the six-pack of Gatorade in the fridge.

[Davwud]

My uncle drinks orange Gatorade and vodka. He got hooked on it while playing tennis.

DT

[ipsedixit]

LOL.

Is that like a screwdriver for athletes?

[Davwud]

I'm guessing.
He drank them but found it was too heavy for the tennis court. How he can play and not spill it is beyond me but he likes it and I guess that's what counts.

DT

[mwright]

Fried rice the way it's done in North American-style Chinese restaurants -- I can eat the whole order ( wash it down with really cold Coke....)

[ML8000]

I see a trend in all the responses -- fluids, minerals, vital nutrients...well most of them.

[Davwud]

Grease

DT

[themis]

1) Two Jack in the Box tacos. Sure cure for tequila belly.

2) pho.

[J T]

Mentioned above... Menudo, with a squeeze of lime and a heavy dose of hot sauce (Cholula works well in this role). (The menudo must be from an authentic taqueria, not from cans, Juanita's et al.).

[JMF]

Bloody Mary's (definately plural)

Ceviche

Pho

an Alka Seltzer chaser

[Rebcca]

Some hair of the dog, and an apple

[dpnpt]

I'm with grubjunkie: fried eggs-bacon-cheese on bagel with butter, homefries....icy DC with a Berocca chaser.

[lympicita]

I must say to you all, that I was given a genetic gift at conception. I have never suffered a hangover.

Huzzah.

Last weekend, after downing many G+Ts on Saturday evening/Sunday morning. I awoke at 8am Sunday morning all daisy fresh.

So, really the foods that made me feel better were the veggies that I got ready for Sunday lunch.

I will go back to lurking.

[welle]

Big cup of strong black tea with sugar (I usually don't take sugar in my tea, but when hangover awfully crave sugar).
Instant korean ramen very spicy.

If all that doesn't help - shot of vodka.

[frenetica]

Coke float.
Bacon.
Tortilla soup, salty & limey.

[thegazelle4]

For a breakfast-time hangover: country-fried steak, eggs over medium, and french fries with lots of gravy (brown or white will do), and lots of coffee and water.

For lunchtime if I'm REALLY hungover at work: Big Mac, fries, and a four-piece McNuggets.

Spicy Bloody Mary's always help too on the weekends.

[punelle]

Bacon, egg and cheese with ketchup on a toasted english muffin. Coffee, OJ and maybe some melon. helps bring me back to life

[wontonton]

8AM - 2 Alka Seltzer in a pint glass of water. Go back to bed.
12PM - Bacon cheeseburger and fries or steak and eggs plus a couple pint glasses of Coke.

[SAnativegirl]

A couple of breakfast tacos with hot sauce

or

chinese food

[ubermasonfan]

I always start with a ton of water. Then, if I got drunk with my college buddies, then off to Denny's we go for the traditional Steak & Eggs breakfast with extra greasy hashbrowns. If not, then McD's for a Steak, Egg, and Cheese bagel, 2 hashbrowns, and the largest Diet Coke I can find. That usually works but if this is one for the ages, its spicy indian food for lunch with a kingfisher.

[stuckinschool]

pizza. advil. pizza. gatorade. pizza. water. nap!

[Eat_Nopal]

Beer
Menudo
Mexican Shrimp Cocktails
Gatorade
Water

[theannerska]

I think Eat Nopal was referring to a type of Mexican soup - it's usually spicy, think it has tripe in it, rumored to be a great hangover cure...

[HoneybeeSF]

If at the beach cottage - fried fish, baked beans, scrambled eggs, beer w/ice, advil. If in the city - gatorade, cheeseburger, bloody mary, advil.

[OCAnn]

Apple juice.

[JenBoes]

A big glass of milk before I go to bed (and aspirin) means I won't have a hangover to begin with.

[Bobfrmia]

I haven't had to resort to hangover food for a long time, but it used to be boxed Kraft mac and cheese.
Reading this thread makes me think McDonalds would have had a tough go of it during prohibition.

[fara]

chicken biscuit from Bojangle's

if delivery is available: unagi don (eel bowl), shrimp tempura, latin-american style seafood rice, pupusas.

mcd's breakfast sandwiches are supposed to be available soon on an all day menu. that would change everything, wouldn't it?

[steinpilz]

I start with a 12hr Aleve and a ranitidine, then a glass of apple cider, maybe some Just Right cereal. After a few hours I'll be mobile.

[Food4Thought]

If I have the wherewithall I do the prevent defense of a few excedrin before bed and then in the AM very hot Miso soup, I swear I can feel the life breathing back into me.

[Winemark]

KFC and Black coffee followed by a beer will always get you back on your feet.

[jacinthe]

Used to be an Egg McMuffin and hash browns (2, of course). Either that, or super-greasy diner food, as long as scrambled eggs and some sort of fried potatoes, preferably in the form of home fries, were to be found.

But for the last 6 months, strangely enough, not only have I not craved those foods the next morning, I can't even indulge in the thought of either that or late-night eating (about which I used to be so very demanding) without getting queasy, to the point where I'd rather suffer through the hangover than eat. I suppose this is good for the waistline, but I miss those breakfasts.

[srr]

Coca-Cola out of the can only.
Pho.
Cambell's Chicken Noodle Soup.

[SweetPea]

This was rather informative.

http://health.howstuffworks.com/hango...

I always liked a tuna melt on toasted rye.

[LindaWhit]

So it looks like eggs, bananas, water and fruit juice are the way to go. :-)

[Marsha]

Reed's Extra Ginger Brew ginger beer. Two aspirin every four hours. Matzoh ball soup. Maybe a chocolate milkshake. Resolution never to do that again.

[soupkitten]

PHO.

raspberry-lemon bubbly water from whole foods.

another shot of whatever you drank the most of chased by lots and lots of water-- hair of the dog works, just don't turn it into a bender!

[MaggieB]

Everything Bagel, toasted with Veggie Cream cheese - from the bagelry of your choice

Subs. Lately it's been a Potbelly Turkey sandwich on wheat, no cheese with lettuce, tomato, pickle, hot peppers and deli mustard. But I'm also partial to Jimmy Johns, Erbert and Gerbert, Milio's... you name it.

Breakfast burritos (made at home).

Chinese take out.

I suspect I'll be partaking in some of these delights this very weekend as my younger brother will be visiting for three nights!

[Biggie]

grape pedialyte w/ a couple of ounces of bombay sapphire gin

[judyh.nguyen]

if im awake early enough the steak egg and cheese bagel from mcdonalds... if not.. then def the big mac... god's gift to hangovers...i swear ronald mcdonald was in AA

[janbrady]

Definitely bacon, fried eggs, and cheese on a roll or bagel. Coca cola with lots of ice (not in the can, but in the glass or from the fountain). Pizza, but just cheese--none of those pesky veggies to get in the way of the delicious cheese and starch.

[torta basilica]

In n Out Double Double Animal style w/ well-done fries.

[AquaW]

1) Guacamole (with chips, tacos, burritos)
2) Cake and Pie (the food, not the Lisa Loeb album ~ the latter is good but proved quite inedible)
3) Omelet (preferably one with avocados)
4) Breakfast Sandwiches
5) Potato Chips - particularly Kettle's Honey Dijon

~AquaW
http://la-oc-foodie.blogspot.com

[rdnnyc]

Developed when I lived down the street from a vegan fast food joint, a tempeh reuben with a side of mashed potatos. Pretty dependent on that particular place because otherwise I go for a Big Mac with bbq sauce.

[Marsha]

I forgot one - mini bagels split in half, buttered, sprinkled with garlic salt, toasted under the broiler, spread with cream cheese, and eaten.

[Sassafras]

Believe it or not: Vegimite on hot buttered toast. Loaded with B vitamins. "Loaded" being the operative word.

[theannerska]

With every hangover, I must have the following:
- Gatorade
- an omelet made with lots of veggies, jack cheese, and jalapenos
- home fries and a side of sausage
- club soda with lots of lime

[yumyum]

I'm a big believer in the bloody mary for the day after the night before. Sometimes a cold beer will suffice but there's something about the spicy tomato juice that just hits the spot. That and plenty of potatoes -- home fries or my favorite, hash browns, cooked in leftover bacon drippings. Good as new.

[MVNYC]

Pho is the way to go. you rehydrate with a soup with lots of nutrients in it plus your carbs and protein. You also get lots of herbs and spices like ginger which help you feel better. That and a Vietnamese coffee with condensed milk for the headache and you are golden. Trust me this is the best medicine.

I have never understood why people like such greasy foods the next day. They will prolong your misery, it is better to put nutritious things in your body. all of the wonderful marrow from the bones leaches out into the soup and really works wonders.

Oh and a big swig of good EV olive oil before bed makes things better in the morning.

Other soup alternatives like miso or real ramen work too

[NovoCuisine]

Why the olive oil before bed?

[MVNYC]

I dont really know the scientific reasoning behind it, or if there is any but all i know is if i remember to take in some olive oil, i feel better the next morning.

I discovered this in college, i was really drunk and the only thing in my house were crackers and olive oil. The next morning i felt great. Tried it with just olive oil and no crackers and worked too.

[welle]

This could be an urban myth, but I heard KGB spies drank oil before going out to drink, so they stay sober while others get drunk and spill the secrets. The reasoning was that oil coats the stomach, so the alcohol does not get into the blood. There is a reason alcohol is served with nuts - nuts are oily. So looks like oil also works afterwards as well.

[Grizzly]

Couple of dogs with the works, and a tamale, from Gene's & Jude's in River Grove, IL

Six or eight sliders with cheese from White Castle.

A "breakfast special" sandwich - 2 sausages, 2 strips bacon, 1 fried egg, lettuce, tomato and mayo on white toast.

A few slices of top quality pizza leftovers, cold, with a large glass of milk.

[exbarkeep]

Burrito al pastor at a good taco truck. With a pepsi.

[Mill City Modern]

One friend of mine swears by eating tons of fruit and smoking some pot. I'm not into that, but maybe this tidbit will help somebody out there...

[gina]

Lemonade or fruit punch Vitamin Water, lots of regular water, and a "magic" cheeseburger from my neighborhood deli.

[chrisonli]

Sushi with enough wasabi to sweat out the toxins produced by the hangover. Washed down with vast quantities of beer...

[Veggietales]

The nest day I'm usually craving a carbs, but I try to be good by drinking gatorade (electrolytes!), eating a banana (B vitamins) and taking a motrin.

Then when I'm feeling well enought to be vertical and off the couch, I go have something sweet and bready, like a doughnut, prime my tummy for a monster helping of pasta of some kind.

or a loaded omelette with swiss, mushrooms, caramelized onions, spinach and ham.

What a list!

[maillard]

This is the only time I eat McDonald's anymore. Sausage biscuit with egg. And an ice coffee (not from McD's).

Or

Pho and vietnamese ice coffee.

Lots and lots of water with both.

There's an interesting discussion of hangovers and why various remedies work in On Food and Cooking.

[atheorist]

Food when hung over? ugh. maybe some fruit, juice or coffee and plenty of water.

This is not food but I am happy to share this hangover headache cure. Fill a big bowl or bathroom sink with ice water. Use plenty of ice. Take a few deep breaths and immerse your face as deep as you can for as long as you can. Breath. Repeat if necessary.

[Terrie H.]

Pepsi, grilled cheese and tomato soup, any diner breakfast that involves homefries, pho.

[melly]

I can't stop eating if I have a hangover...and it's all starch. I try to avoid hangovers as I haven't found a real cure. A Bloody Mary with bkfst works..if I am out to brunch.