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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsTurns out there is a scientific cure for a hangover.
Bacon sandwich.
It turns out that there is a cure, and a wondrous one at that: the bacon sandwich. And no, as far as we're aware this isn't some marketing team-up between the world's breweries and pork farmers -- there's totally legit science involved.
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"Those findings were the result of British-led research that came just a few years after the British-led research that said there was no such thing as a hangover cure, leading us to assume that the Brits, being the world's most hungover people, are simply desperate for a cure.
It turns out that the hangover-slaying superpowers of the bacon sandwich are a happy accident of its two constituent ingredients, bacon and bread. The bread is loaded with carbohydrates, while the bacon is full of protein that the body breaks down into amino acids, an important player in your body's overall level of feelgoodness.
And while we've shown you before that drinking doesn't kill your brain cells, booze does cause you to lose neurotransmitters, i.e., those chemicals in your brain that allow you to do things like think and breathe and control your innate desire to dance the sexiest version of the robot possible.
But the amino-rich wonder-food that is bacon tops those right back up, helping to clear up that feeling that gremlins came in the middle of the night and replaced your brain with a pincushion."
http://www.cracked.com/article_19293_the-5-most-ridiculous-drinking-myths-you-probably-believe_p2.html?wa_user1=2&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=article&wa_user4=trending_now
I KNEW IT! BACON IS GOOD FOR YOU!
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)so rather than eat bacon, I'd prefer to stay drunk.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)petronius
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Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)then why not a tuna sandwich? Or grilled cheese? Or PB&J? Or turkey?
Not that a bacon sandwich isn't always a good thing, but how is bacon special for a hangover?
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)same with grilled cheese. greasy and dairy free is what i want when i'm hungover
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)Bacon in Britain, and therefore the bacon sandwich, is a sad fucking excuse for food. It's basically the shittiest, limpest, grodiest shit cut of meat. They put it on the equivalent bit of bread and eat it. It sucks.
Granted, eating one will do a hangover no harm. This doesn't mean you shouldn't down gatorade and jelly doughnuts and/or McDonald's cheese burgers.