Just in time for my office holiday party in half an hour and a week too late for Repeal Day, the ably-livered staff at The Morning News offer their favorite hangover cures. Matthew Baldwin truthfully advises that water and time is the only tested cure. My own favorite recovery food, a big bowl of pho, doesn’t make the list.
What’s your favorite hangover cure?
Update 12/17: Megan McArdle coincidentally posts her own remedy recipe.
Jacob Grier is a freelance writer, bartender, cocktail consultant, and magician in Portland, Oregon. He writes, eats, and drinks a lot. His articles have appeared in the print or online editions of The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Reason, The Oregonian, and other publications.
In order of effectiveness:
1) IV drip
2) whirlpool, sauna, steam. 15 min each (bring water)
Bacon, eggs, and coffee. At noon. In the nude. Preferably with some sort of football game on TV.
hot grease + hot coffee + nude + drunk = bad idea