Weird and strange hangover cures from around the world

While the intake of alcohol may give you a kick for some time, you cannot escape the hangover. Thus, you should also be ready to give a kick to your hangover. While there is hardly a sure-shot way to cure hangover in a short time, some people have still tried out their own weird remedies. Whether they work or not, there is no harm reading about such ideas from across the world and have some fun. Check out.

Hangover breakfast

Woman enjoying fresh spring onion

Many Germans take a special hangover breakfast before they eat anything else in the morning. They feel that it can give them relief from hangover. Usually, such breakfast includes raw pickled herring. It is wrapped around a few pieces of onion and gherkin. Does it not sound weird? If not, then try at your own risk.

Buffalo milk

Portrait of handsome muscular Caucasian man with goatee wearing red athletic shirt drinking glass of milk on white background

It is not actual milk from a buffalo. Buffalo milk is a concoction that Namibians drink to get rid of hangover. It is made by mixing things like ice cream, full cream, cream liqueur, dark rum, and spiced rum. Now, only Namibians can tell how effective it can be.

Umeboshi

Beautiful happy young woman sitting with hot tea

A dried and deeply pickled ume is called umeboshi in Japan. Ume is like an apricot or plum. A few Japanese people also drink green tea after steeping umeboshi in it. Still, it is horribly sour and difficult to eat. You never know what a sour thing can do to your stomach that is souralready.

Tripe soup

Woman Eating Soup

People in Turkey feel that eating something gross can remove hangover. Thus, they prepare a thick soup called tripe soup. Tripe refers to the eatable stomach portion of livestock. The soup is prepared using cream, onions, and garlic. Even people in Romania and Mexico use similarly strange techniques to cure hangover.

Deep-fried canary

Yellow bird

While Romans have done many amazing things, curing hangover is surely not among them. For them, an effective cure to hangover is by eating a deep-fried canary as a whole. How yucky and cruel does it sound?

Practicing voodoo

The witches conjure

Can you even imagine that people in Haiti actually take revenge from the bottle that gave them a hangover? They think that the bottle had a spirit and take revenge from it by practicing voodoo. They stick 13 pins with black heads on the bottle’s cork to do this. Nobody knows whether it cures their hangover or satisfies their soul.

In every part of the world, people drink alcohol and get hangover as an aftereffect. While there are a few common workable solutions to treat hangover, people in some countries really adopt weird practices and cures for their hangover.

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