A wise man once said, "When you have learned the hangover cures of a country, you truly know that country." Ok, ok, I just made up that statement right now, but it's true darn it! When you're hungover, you don't care about rhyme or reason, you only care about wearing dark glasses, not moving too fast, and keeping the music DOWN!
Anyway, last night I was drinking shots with Clyde (it was the super bowl) and Clyde got really drunk (I was fine of course, good to drive...). I'd have been hurting if my girlfriend hadn't taken care of me.
At first glance, hangover cures always sound a bit weird. It's always something like a bag of doritos mixed up with ketchup, olive oil, and ice cubes. Well, the Peruvian hangover cure is no different.
But first of all you have to know one thing about Peruvians...Peruvians are crazy about what they call lemons (or limes as they appear to be to me). Anyway, what a Peruvian calls a lemon (which I would call a lime) is packed (according to them) with mystical curative powers. If you catch a cold they tell you to drink tea with lemon, if you get sick to your stomach, down some pure lemon juice, if their dog gets sick, they tie a lemon around its throat (I'm not making this up), it goes on and on...a lemon cures everything.
Thus, it's only natural that some combination of lemon plus something else would comprise their hangover remedy. Actually, the cure is deceptively simple, blink and you'll miss it. Here it is:
1. Take two or three lemons
2. Squeeze their jucie into a glass (using the nifty metal squeezer you see in the picture...if you come to Lima, it's worth buying one of these things)
3. Mix the lemon juice with a equal amount of water
4. Drink it!
There you go. Simple! But the most important part of this cure is one final tricky piece of information. You have to drink the remedy BEFORE you go to bed...AKA, just as you're finishing up your drinking.
Sigh, that's just the time when I'm never making good decisions. Fortunately for me, my girlfriend is still generally clean and sober and last night (after the super bowl) she filled me full of watery lemon juice thus allowing me to make a long questing voyage to the corner store to help Clyde with a more old fashioned remedy...a bottle of gatorade and a few aspirin.
Long live the classics! But at the same time, long live the Peruvian lemon hangover cure!
peruvian lemon is the best, good u discovered on time.
ReplyDeleteSo did the Peruvian hangover cure make it all better in the morning?
ReplyDeleteI missed the superbowl this year, since the Cable Magico guys came by a few months ago our apartment no longer has the em... "shared cable" that our landlord promised us :(
Yeah, it actually works. I mean you're not "all" better, but you're better off than if you hadn't taken it. It's something to think about if you start getting the spins the night before.
ReplyDeleteSorry you missed the superbowl. There isn't any kind of sports bar in Cusco? You should have gone up to the bar in the hotel las incas or something (what are the names of the 4 or 5 star hotels that cater to tourists?).
It was a pretty exciting game, but until the Packers go back, I use the super bowl only as a cause to get drunk! haha!
Cheers!