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Hangovers

I've had some brutal ones in my time. Face pressed against the bathroom tiles, praying for oblivion ones. But one of the very worst I experienced was in a small town in the Valle del Cauca last year.

Señora Kalder and myself had taken ourselves off for a quiet drink one evening. Now, I normally just stick to beer, but that night I had a hankering for the taste of something sweeter and sharper. So, in the bar I asked for a glass of rum and coke. Ah, sorry sir, we only sell it by the bottle...Well, I can live with that says young Kalder, who proceeds to quickly work his way through a litre of the dark and sugary. But one bottle being enough for anyone, when it was finished, I suggested to the missus that we toddle off home.

As we stepped into the plaza we passed a group of louts, sitting on the bonnet of a car, looking as hard as altogether, with the ranchera cranked up to the max. These boyos hailed us and a slightly befuddled Kalder realised that they were his wife's nephews. Salutations allround and an invitation to join them for a drink. Being a sociable chap, I wasn't one to decline; in fact I made to order the first round of beers. But I was shouted down and rum (by the bottle, naturally) was ordered.

Well, that didn't last long and some bright spark suggested we visit every 'happening' bar in a 5 mile radius. Which we did and in the course of this pilgrimage of the damned we drank, well, no surprises here, rum. And not by the glass. The coffers of 'Ron Viejo de Caldas' must have visibly swelled that night.

I remember staggering like a myopic chicken around one bar, looking for the banio. And the next I knew I was in bed at home, nursing a hangover of unparalleled brutality. I was sick for three whole days. I just lay there, enduring the nausea, headache, fatigue, depression, and general allround misery with the practised stoicism of a lifetime. Vowing never ever, oh God I mean it this time, never, never, until hell freezes over, again.

So, thank you for listening to my tale of self-inflicted woe and, if you're of a mind to, I cordially invite you to share yours...

By kalder on Jan 28, 2007, 07:12 in Friendly Talkzone.

southern151 says on Jan 28, 2007, 07:25:

Yes... My personal favorite type of hangover is the one that gets worse as the next several days progress. Day 1: A feeling of stupidity(nothing makes sense); Day 2: Hurts to even blink your eyes and; Day 3: The I'll never do this again promise! I cannot count the times that I have had this feeling. Liquor is the best thing to bring this out in me.

Fortunately, I stay away from the liquor for the most part. Only on special occasions(me forgetting why I do not drink it), will I get into the bad bottle. For me, it is Crown Royal. The Crown sure has away to work it's royal magic on me! LOL

Damn the long days that follow!

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kalder says on Jan 28, 2007, 08:09:

Crown Royal? I don't think I've had the pleasure. But I understand it's one of those sweet tasting liqours like Bourbon or, indeed,Ron Viejo de Caldas. No wonder you suffer so...

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

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southern151 says on Jan 28, 2007, 08:13:

If you ever get the chance... It is great to mix with Coca-Cola. It is Canadian whiskey. I will warn you though that you will have another thread to post if you get into it too much! LOL I could write many stories about them if I could remember them! They all end very similar to yours though. LOL Have I mentioned that the weather here is great?! Sitting by the pool now! What a life!

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southern151 says on Jan 28, 2007, 08:17:

Margaritaville... playing on my pc right now. I wish I had my guitar with me. I could soooo be Jimmy Buffet! Damn! You couldn't crack my smile with a baseball bat right now! IIIIEEEE!

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PaisaAmericano says on Jan 28, 2007, 09:19:

I was hungover!!!! for the past couple of days cuz of Southern151 hahaha. Hey bro give me a call.

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southern151 says on Jan 28, 2007, 09:27:

OHHH!... Much like the Colombian women...It is ALL my fault?! It's ok. I'm gettin good at taking blame. LOL

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Miguel says on Jan 28, 2007, 12:42:

Hangovers "Better to have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobatomy."

Viejo de Caldas is too freaking good.

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kalder says on Jan 28, 2007, 12:51:

Miguel Tom Waits?

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

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MacGringo says on Jan 28, 2007, 13:17:

Burns Supper last night, so now I'm enduring a pretty bad hang over.
The red wine and beer don't mix too well with large quantities of Whisky.
I was still sitting drinking whisky and talking bullshit at 7 this morning.....paying the price now.

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goin_south says on Jan 28, 2007, 21:53:

you guys need to check out this stuff called: MONA-VIE. It is a juice from the Acai berry, mostly harvested in Brazil, from my understanding, sold in a bottle that looks like a wine bottle, promoted as THE WORLDS STRONGEST ANTI-OXIDANT. Some have said it does wonders for the hangover (if you can remember to look for it), and if the sight of what appears to be yet another bottle of wine doesn't do ya in.

Myself...I remember sipping my way back to civilization with ICED COFFEE. no cream or sugar, please.

Where do we go from here?

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Robert Jorge says on Jan 28, 2007, 22:47:

Hangover cure I found the best cure for my hangovers when in Colombia was the partaking of a large bowl of sopa de mondongo. I later learned that I wasn't the first to discover this. Many other people were way ahead of me and told me the same thing.

BEWARE of gold diggers.

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goin_south says on Jan 28, 2007, 22:49:

sopa de mondongo I can't say I have yet heard of this. What are the ingredients? Was it palate-pleasing?

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miamimike says on Jan 28, 2007, 23:48:

Pure Oxygen at 2 liters if you have access to a Tank helps a lot. well it helps me anyhow but after several bouts in my drinking days, I refrain and seldom find myself green in the face, red in the eyes nowdays. Manhattans and Martinis gave me the worst Hangovers, partily due to the mixes. Avoid liquor such as Tequila, Argudiente, cheap wine-all very unrefined. Mixed drinks are a killer also.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangover

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Robert Jorge says on Jan 29, 2007, 10:31:

Sopa de mondongo is your basic, typical Colombian soup base - broth I guess with potatos and and maybe a little bit of other veggies. But the meat of the dish is tripe. Yep, cattle stomach. It is probably the dish I miss the most - and I am not kidding. I discovered it's hangover curing quality quite by accident. I drank my normal amount of beer one night ... but also got talked into Aguardiente and had a little ron and I think even one of those tequila and hot-sauce drinks some chick pours in your mouth for 2 mil. Anyway, we got up about 2pm the next day, and went to our usual restaraunt. The only thing on the menu that I thought I might be able to keep down was soup. One big bowl, and I felt like a new man.

BEWARE of gold diggers.

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kalder says on Jan 29, 2007, 12:43:

Hangover cures Iced coffee, oxygen tanks...yes, I could see myself facing them first thing in the morning, with the hangover goblins hammering away in my skull. But TRIPE!!! Great Scott, you must have the constitution of a bull and the fortitude of a viking. I tip my hat to you sir!

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

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goin_south says on Jan 29, 2007, 13:56:

jus give me the soup... and spare me, that there is 'cattle stomach' in there, please.

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Robert Jorge says on Jan 29, 2007, 14:09:

Galiceto and Kalder, believe it or not, sopa de mondongo is fantastic. You just have to get over the texture of the rubbery stomach parts that look similar to 1 inch squares of bee hive / honey comb. I ate it almost daily when I lived there. When I told somebody about my "magical cure" that I thought I had discovered, they reacted like, "You mean you didn't know that already?" I guess it is a common home remedy in Colombia - and other Latin countries - for hangovers.

BEWARE of gold diggers.

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Robert Jorge says on Jan 29, 2007, 14:14:

I also love sopa de menudencias (spelling ?). Same thing as mondongo as far as I can tell, but substitute the tripe with chicken gizzards, hearts, liver, necks, and feet. It is also delicious, but a little more challenging to eat, because of all the small bones you have to spit out. It would definitely not be a good food to give young children or babies.

BEWARE of gold diggers.

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Robert Jorge says on Jan 29, 2007, 14:24:

We weren't curing hangovers, but here is Vivi feeding her mother a little bit of her sopa de mondongo. The other girl is Vivi's sister. We each had a huge bowl that night.

BEWARE of gold diggers.

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Robert Jorge says on Jan 29, 2007, 14:27:

Sorry, no pic - tinypic aint' working for me right now. Nevermind - it worked after 5 minutes. I'de delete this post, but I can't.

BEWARE of gold diggers.

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mvefwd says on Jan 29, 2007, 14:56:

Cure I'm partial to consome. We had some for breakfast every moring that I was in MDE. By 11am we were up and out the door.

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Viva Colombia
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morphus says on Jan 29, 2007, 15:09:

Clear alcohols like vodka and gin are better than rum. You can drink twice the amount of alcohol without getting a hangover. I drank a liter of Gilbey's vodka the other night. When I woke up the next morning I felt great. Its better than Smirnoff and made in the U.S.

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morphus says on Jan 29, 2007, 15:25:

I had a bad hangover in Colombia one night. I drank about 30 beers, a bottle of Ron Medellin and a bottle of mil peso brandy that the bums buy. A guy told me not to drink the mil peso brandy. He said its "para dormir en la calle". Brandy and bourbon are the highest in congeners. Congeners are toxic chemicals that are formed during fermentation.

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goin_south says on Jan 29, 2007, 17:15:

Morphus, you mean: You can kill yourself twice as fast, without even knowing it?

Caramba!

(You can drink twice the amount of alcohol without getting a hangover.)

dos pesos mio,... pequito de nada

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goin_south says on Jan 29, 2007, 17:16:

As to how much of what ever you can drink without a hangover I think, depends on the person and also the brand of... 'WHATEVER'.

dos pesos mio;... pequito de nada

Where do we go from here?

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kalder says on Jan 30, 2007, 02:22:

'You just have to get over the texture of the rubbery stomach parts...'
Robert, that's just what I couldn't do. The very thought of chewing away on that stuff gives me the horrors.

Morphus- Vodka? You must have an iron constitution like Robert Jorge. I got utterly poleaxed drinking vodka in Russia once. Good God, it was like drinking something the Red Army would have powered their tanks with! I went insane on it, out into orbit. Admittedly, you're right, it wasn't as congener nasty as it could've been. But it sent me for some pretty hard labour in the hangover gulag, I can tell you.

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

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Jebediah says on Jan 31, 2007, 03:58:

YYYYYO! Well as we speak ive had a couple of cans of JD and coke (premix) and a few glasses of some cheap ass bourbon my dad got for xmas (doubles).
At least im not the only one who says "im never drinking again!" only to get the urge and the craving a few days later!
Even tho im from down under, im not a beer drinker, but give me a JD and coke anytime and ill drink u under the table!
BTw........i found JD and coke quite difficult to get in colombia! So can i get an order for a few bottles all around colombia, in ever major city and outback town for when i arrive next? Thanks chaps!

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kalder says on Jan 31, 2007, 04:28:

Jebediah Can't stand JD.

But I must say, you've got some damned fine wines Down Under!

"kalder- have you ever had a woman?"--Sam Salmon

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panthdave says on Jan 31, 2007, 05:33:

Just Drink a Damn Brava You will be Fine Slam One Brava the next morning and eat and the hangover will go away. My easiest solution...Remember Hangovers you go thru withdrawals from alcohol so by drinking one beer you satisfy your brain from the withdrawal.. Just don't start drinking like a fish just one beer the next morning..

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morphus says on Jan 31, 2007, 17:58:

Read this article and you will want to drink more often:

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/HealthIssues/1055517115.html

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goin_south says on Jan 31, 2007, 20:46:

Another round for all! That's good Mprphus.

My idea of healthy drinking was/is more like,... drinking your dark/amber rum with Juices like Pineapple, Mango, Guava, Banana, Passion Fruit, a little Coconut, lots of fresh squeezed lime juice, a pinch of ginger, lil cinnamon/nutmeg, and maybe even throwing in a few lavender tops... all in the blender of course.

dos pesos mio,... pequito de nada

Where do we go from here?

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Jebediah says on Feb 1, 2007, 18:18:

Drinking I think the problem with alcohol is alot of people binge drink. I know i for one, cant stop at just one drink. Thats probly a problem with my addictive personality!

Oh and Kalder, alot of the ladies have a tasty "down under" in australia ;)

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morphus says on Feb 1, 2007, 18:21:

Thats how I am. I can go months without drinking but if I have one drink, its all over. Tomorrow night, i'm going to drink a gallon of beer and a pint of vodka.

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