Depending on how successful your premiere parties were last night, you might have the suffering today.
To celebrate the act of imbibing, and all those who brave the consequences, we’ve put together this list of Westerosi hangover cures. Some are mixtures from the books, some are medieval, and others are…born from our own imaginations.
Feel free to make your own suggestions, too!
Westerosi Hangover Cures:
Castle Black: walk to the top of The Wall.
Stark: go and stand in the snow
Tyrell: extract of blueberry and greens.
Greyjoy: drink more. A bit of raw whitefish and a few swigs of seawater.
Lannister: egg yolk in port or sherry, with honey and a chip of ice.
Arryn: fresh milk.
Dornish: whole spicy peppers.
Bolton: Demand silence and darkness. Take the tongue of anyone who speaks.
Maester Qyburn: licorice steeped in vinegar, with honey and cloves.
Maester Luwin: willow bark in warm beef broth, with plain oatcakes.
Red Priests: burn the offending bottles.
Warlocks of of Qarth: stick pins in the corks of the offending bottles.
Tyrion: A brothel.
Sandor Clegeane: hair of the dog.
Additional Reader ideas:
Braavos: raw oysters
Strong Belwas: Liver and onion smoothie
Dothraki Khal: Mare’s milk, stallion blood and slaughtering a whole Lhazarene village (good cardio).
Milk does help! Along with two Excedrin migraine tablets! But I avoid hangovers by drinking at least one glass of water for every two drinks I have. The key to not getting hung over is to stay hydrated! ;)
Try whey instead of milk, it’s even better. ;)
Quite possibly the best blog post ever. I mean Evar. In the history of blogging.
Strong Belwas: Liver and onion smoothie
Dothraki Khal: Mare’s milk, stallion blood and slaughtering a whole Lhazarene village (good cardio).
It is not kind to make hung-over people laugh like this, you cruel, cruel people!
And I agree with the hydrate as you go method. One beer, one coke, one beer one coke. this will keep you from looking like a dweeb and keep you from getting alcahol poisoning (aka, a hangover)
Coke is not hydrating. as it is a sugar/caffeine beverage, it will also dehydrate :/ try water instead.
The simplest – drink some brine from pickled vegetables. It’s a common Russian recipe. Russians do drink a lot, and they know the “science of drinking”.
Also: one shot of vodka followed by lots of meat . Concentrated broth with meat pieces also makes wonders. See our Kholodets – Meat Jelly recipe – that’s what you need in the morning after… After that you will be ready for new round. ;)
King’s Landing – make fun of King Joffrey. Pretty soon your head won’t be bothering you at all.
“Hair of the dog” is certainly correct for Sandor Clegane, but IIRC, the general Westerosi cure was “a scale from the dragon that flamed you.” (Sorry, I don’t recall the exact volume that appears in.)
Birdie in the basket and a coffee. Works like a charm every time.
You know you’re all just describing ways of taking vitamins, and you could just take vitamins, right? B, mostly. Though Westeros wouldn’t know about that.
Braavos: raw oysters
Where’s the fun in that?
Or imbibing fluids. One of the biggest reasons people get nasty hangovers is dehydration. …That and taking liver-filtered drugs with their alcohol like morons, but I don’t think it’s possible to convince the people doing that that Excedrin is /not/ the helpful component of “Excedrin and a tall glass of water”, especially since it only works for four hours. (other liver-related fun facts: certain depression meds can block the liver’s ability to break down alcohol entirely, meaning that when it wears off, if you’ve been drinking the alcohol will hit you like a ton of bricks, all at once. This also works the other way; alcohol will block the drugs from being processed. And now you know why some meds instruct you to not drink while taking them (the rest are just depressants and work the same way alcohol does, making it lethal in a /different/ way).
I am such a nerd.)
We always called it “red beer”: half beer, half v8 and a splash of Tobasco. Breakfast of champions and overconfident imbibers.
1/2 strong beef consomme mixed with 1/2 cup V8 Juice, one banana and two ibuprofen tablets.
Wildlings (Free Folk): A dip in the Milkwater