“Full English” tops UK hangover-cure survey

https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/24/hangover_survey/

by jjgreen • 5 years ago

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tmysl• 5 years ago

"full fat cola"

dafman• 5 years ago

It's just what we call a drink that isn't a diet version

jakub_g2• 5 years ago

As a slav, I must respectfully disagree! The best hangover cure is żurek (Polish sour soup with white sausage, eggs and potatoes).

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%C5%BCurek&iax=images&ia=images

rich_sasha• 5 years ago

While I wholeheartedly agree, this is for the poor Britons, who know not the delights of Żurek! (available at your local Tesco's - you're welcome!).

Also, Full English is pretty damn good too...

Lio3• 5 years ago

One of the great gifts of Polish migrants to the UK has been the wide availability of your delicious goodies.

Big fan of Prince Polos and other Polish sweets. Also kabanos.

Cheers guys.

kozikow• 5 years ago

Rosół is even better. Żurek may be too heavy in case of upset stomach.

jakub_g2• 5 years ago

Yep rosół is excellent too.

nemo44x• 5 years ago

I always appreciated the Hemingway quote:

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

mbg7212• 5 years ago

My American eyes were opened to the savory delights I'd been missing once I tried a proper full breakfast. Now whenever I make bacon and eggs, I'll at least throw together a can of beans, a little can of tomato sauce, some Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper.

Lio3• 5 years ago

My pro tip would be to look for Heinz Five Beans aka "adult" baked beans.

The sauce is more savoury, less sweet than standard and there are, er, 5 types of beans.

IMHO a much better experience overall than your common or garden backed bean, although others might disagree[1].

Also don't forget black pudding.

1. ...but they are wrong!

grkvlt• 5 years ago

100% agree; and as an alternative, for only GBP 0.45 you can get the Sainsburys own-brand equivalent which is just as good - and then go one better with their Hot and Spicy [0] variant, which is my suggested replacement for anything baked-bean related...

0. https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-five-...

drcongo• 5 years ago

American breakfasts are easily second place in the World Breakfast Cup though. Except for the bacon, you guys need to work on your bacon.

sanedigital• 5 years ago

No way, American bacon is our gift to the world. The European stuff doesn’t even come close.

hprotagonist• 5 years ago

https://shirazsocialist.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/kingsley-am...

Before going on to the Metaphysical Hangover, I will, for completeness’s sake, mention three supposed hangover cures, all described as infallible by those who told me about them, though I have not tried any of them. The first two are hard to come by.

• Go down the mine on the early-morning shift at the coal-face.

• Go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls).

• Known as Donald Watt’s Jolt, this consists of a tumbler of some sweet liqueur, Benedictine or Grand Marnier, taken in lieu of breakfast. Its inventor told me that with one of them inside him, he once spent three-quarters of an hour at a freezing bus-stop ‘without turning a hair’. It is true that the sugar in the drink will give you energy and the alcohol alcohol.

Hitton2• 5 years ago

Interesting. I would expect an alcohol to be featured on the list. Isn't the phrase "hair of the dog who bit you"?

hotsauceror2• 5 years ago

It does mention a Bloody Mary about halfway down the list.

Hitton2• 5 years ago

Right. I missed that.

robotmay2• 5 years ago

The full english breakfast is our gift to the world. Honestly it's one of the only things I'm vaguely proud of - most countries fail utterly at breakfast, despite their other meals by far defeating ours (Japan, why do you eat natto for breakfast?). I do have a guilty pleasure in ordering a full english breakfast in other countries just to see the variations. I had a really quite interesting interpretation in Budapest which involved paprika sausages and beans served as a dipping sauce.

Lesser known aspect - it's totally OK to have a pint of beer with your full english breakfast. I would consider that very traditional, and it's also an extra helper against a hangover, somehow.

brnt5• 5 years ago

I come from the Netherlands, so we're in no place to tell others how to breakfast, but do most countries utterly fail at breakfast? I find a lot do pretty OK. I guess my experience is pretty European though. English breakfast is certainly not on my list of appealing breakfasts; way too heavy for my tastes. I also don't often have hangovers to combat.

robotmay2• 5 years ago

Haha yeah a full english is not something you want every day, unless you want to die at 30 with arteries full of sausages.

Most places I've been, breakfast seems to be a bit of an after-thought, and lunch is the main event. A lot of places tend to be along the lines of "coffee and a croissant", which I find really hard to adapt to as I often eat a heavier breakfast and a lighter lunch.

Aside: I have a friend in France who was introduced to a kettle and how to make cups of tea, and it resulted in an interesting French/English hybrid breakfast where we dipped some sort of French breakfast cake into a bowl of tea (only thing bigger than a coffee cup he had) :D

PopsiclePete• 5 years ago

What is Dutch food anyway? Bitterballen? Just some salted fish on a thin slice of rye? Seems like everyone there in your neck of the woods eats Italian basically? I spent a solid month in Amsterdam once and the most "Dutch" thing I ate was....Indonesian?

rswskg• 5 years ago

You totally negated your point with that last admission.

loudmax• 5 years ago

A hangover is a symptom of physiological alcohol withdrawal. That's why having a beer at breakfast helps with the hangover.

It is traditional and there's nothing wrong with it every now and then. I'd caution against allowing it to become a habit though.

stryan• 5 years ago

There's no evidence that a hangover is caused by alcohol withdrawal in most cases[0].

I think the thought behind "hair of the dog" remedies like a beer with breakfast is either A) getting a little drunk again helps you ignore the hangover or B) Drinking alcohol again causes your body to produce enzymes that process acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde is a byproduct of our bodies processing alcohol and is thought to contribute to the hangover, along with the well-known effects of dehydration.

[0] https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh22-1/54-60.pdf

fomine3• 5 years ago

You can choose foods other than Natto for breakfast as many people do. There are many choices.

mywittyname• 5 years ago

8. A can of full fat cola 14%

WTF is this English people?

jjgreen2• 5 years ago

Full sugar (no saccharine), likely comes from the types of milk on sale in the UK, full-fat, semi-skimmed, skimmed.

brnt5• 5 years ago

Protip: do not ask Brits any tips regarding food. That's a millennium of experience talking.

- the rest of Europe.

jjgreen2• 5 years ago

Brit here, that's probably good advice, except when it comes to the fry-up and curry.

omnicognate• 5 years ago

Excellent advice! If you want to know the meaning of a British slang phrase for a soft drink, seen in a British news article, definitely don't ask a British person. You probably want a Belgian for that.

tupac_speedrap• 5 years ago

The Register is a informal British news website. So you see these colloquialisms a lot, it's just a slightly ironic term for non-diet fizzy drinks.

mbg7212• 5 years ago

It's in the same spirit that decaf is "unleaded".

Lio3• 5 years ago

Yes. It's just a joke name for non-diet.

hotsauceror2• 5 years ago

My wife swears by chocolate milk with ice cubes in it.

As for me, you can pry my leftover pizza slices from my cold, dead hand.

towb• 5 years ago

There is no cure. Not for me anyway. Swedish midsummer celebrations tomorrow and I just bought a bottle of Havana Club and a bunch of beers. I know what to expect and only time will help... a lot of time... Haven't been drunk since last summer, that's the only thing that truly works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

fatjokes• 5 years ago

Korean hangover soup is where it's at! Nothing beats a hearty stew for me.

klelatti• 5 years ago

For a video exposition of the "Full English" I recommend Danny's recent trip to Bolton which has become something of a viral hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7YM7iYtFRY

“Full English” tops UK hangover-cure survey

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