Medical Monday: Do What With A Lemon?
In honor of Drink Race 2000, I think my first Medical Monday post should be a hangover cure. As with all my Medical Monday information, take this with a grain of salt. I don't know if this works or not. I never drink enough to get a hangover, so I couldn't test it. So anyway, you can cure a hangover by rubbing a lemon half in your armpit. How this is supposed to work is beyond me, but I heard it on NPR, so I'm sure it's true. I don't know if you have to rub it into each armpit, or if you can just pick one.
Now for a hangover producer, cherry bombs. I didn't have enough time to make these before Drink Race 2000, but they would have been perfect. Take a bottle of Marichino cherries and pour out the liquid. Pour in enough Everclear to cover the cherries. Cover it and put it in the refrigerator. Let it sit for a month to marinate. These are dangerous in the wrong hands. Label the bottle so you don't accidentally put one on a sundae or shake.
One other hangover cure, also not tested by the Daily Cud staff, is to drink a bunch of pickle juice. I think I would rather rub a lemon on my pit.
Do you think that would work with amaretto instead? mmmmm. I may just have to try that - amaretto cherries.
ReplyDeleteMy only remedy for hangovers involves two tylenol and a full glass of water before you go to bed. The only problem is that you have to remember to do it while you're still hammered.
My favorite hangover cure is quit drinking so much. Never failed me yet. Amaretto cherries do sound good. Those cherry bombs will put hair on your chest.
ReplyDeleteMom, you're going to have to wait until somebody here gets a hangover.
ReplyDeleteAlso tasty during the summer - vodka watermelon.
ReplyDelete1. Buy watermelon.
2. Drop watermelon carrying it in from car. Yell obscenties and scare away small children in the neighborhood.
3. Buy another watermelon.
4. Cut a small hole in the top and insert funnel.
5. Realize you don't own a funnel.
6. Buy funnel.
7. Dump in vodka until it starts to come back up the funnel.
8. Wait awhile. Sample vodka to make sure it's good.
9. Go buy another bottle of vodka after realizing you did a bit too much sampling.
10. Dump in more vodka. Repeat steps 7 and 8.
11. Over the course of 24-48 hours you should be able to cram about a liter of vodka into the watermelon, which gets absorbed into the watermelon meat.
12. Cut and eat. Preferably with friends at a BBQ.
13. Wake up the next morning wondering where your new tattoo came from.