What do you crave when hungover?

[Margo34]

My friend and I were comparing hangovers on Saturday after a few drinks Friday. Our cravings were totally different!

Friend craved fried chicken and chips.
I craved salt and vinegar crisp, a bag of salad smothered with vinaigrette and, very specifically, those slightly spicy mini roasted peppers stuffed with ricotta 😂

Why do I not craze chicken and chips or a burger or the like, as well? Why do I crave vinegary stuff?

And what do you crave when hungover?

I have a few options:-

1. hot Dorito salsa with tangy cheese Doritos tortilla chips, plus chocolate bar, loads of tea.
2. ribena light ice cold, sausage and egg McMuffin, chocolate bar/crisps loads of tea.
3. fry up, with something sweet loads of tea.

add painkillers.

McDonald’s breakfast and several cups of tea

@Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain of course, loads of tea. I can't seem to stomach a whole full cup though and it goes cold before I can finish it when hungover! 😔 Sacrilege!

I don’t think you’re wrong in what you crave, your body obviously craves vinegar when you’re hungover and your friend craves more fat, protein and carbs.

I recall speaking with a friend as to why I liked the Doritos salsa and she said it’s because your brain needs something sweet, I hadn’t thought of it that way.

Another cure but rarely used is salad for lunch, little to nothing to soak up alcohol and a smoothie (healthy).

I was quite upset in McDs the other day to find they’ve removed hash browns from their McMuffin brekkie menu!

😭

seem to recall diff cures for stages of life. DM used to cook fry ups for me and DB and fishfingers, oven chips and baked beans for us too - and our mates. Spoiled little brats we were!

KFC - and I don't even eat meat 🤣

That's interesting, different cure at different ages/stages.

And now you say that, 10 years ago I remember craving super berry smoothies and breakfast wraps for hangovers

Sausage and egg McMuffin and a bottle of orange lucozade.

Lemonade
Those frozen fruity lemonade slush thingies that McDonald's sometimes have
Bacon butties
Fruit pastels/skittles

Really stodgy carbs and fat. Things like toasties, or fried egg sandwiches with lots of butter and cheese or cheesey chips. Always cheese! Lots of tea and coffee too.

As a general rule I have a seriously sweet tooth.
if I’m hungover that changes completely, I want ALL the savoury things!
usually cheesy Doritos, some sort of fried chicken and those cheese things you put in the oven, along with full fat coke are the general go tos.

Any manifestation of sugar, salt and fat with plenty of liquid! So sausage butty with orange juice and coffee for eg.
Later, Chinese takeaway.

I also have a really sweet tooth but on hangover days it's got to be a Gregg's sausage roll and ice cold can of Fanta.

McDonald's breaky then I regret it and feel sick. I can't drink tea when I'm hungover either, the thought of milk turns my stomach. To be honest when I'm hungover it's game over and I wallow in self pity until it passes

Diet Coke

Red ambulance.

Different solutions for different hangovers.

A savoury pastry usually hits the spot. Or fried halloumi or just a tube of Pringles.

Sometimes you need the full greasy fry-up. Sometimes, especially in the summer, you need fresh, hydrating things - my weirdest go-to for those ones is a cucumber. Just a cucumber, eaten like a chocolate bar. That's it. It works.

I have a few..
Something spicy from the Chinese.
A Big Mac
Fried egg on toast
Coke or lucozade

I like a hair of the dog. Almost immediately. After cold, fizzy water.

With a really healthy fresh salad with cheese incorporated somehow.
OR
Scrambled eggs on brown toast.

Never fried stuff or hot drinks and definitely nothing sweet. I would be sick.

When I've got a really bad hangover I need ready salted crisps and a full fat coke to sip. Basically salt and sugar.

Sausage and egg McMuffin, or if nowhere near McD - Heinz tomato soup, irn bru and a bacon sandwich.

It's always something with bread. My preference is a roast veg and cheddar panini. I'll settle for cold slices of pizza.

Then usually chocolate milk but sometimes smoothies. I don't get hungover often but my DH knows it's bad when I break out the Nesquik.

Lucozade and a full English breakfast pasty

I dont get hangovers now but in my 20's it was (seriously) a turkey and potato salad sandwich on white bread. No butter.