It came up in a conversation with friends yesterday while we spent four hours making meat loaf sandwiches. This particular friend is super sweet but doesn't have what you'd call an analytical mind, and she has this annoying habit of spouting sentences out of nowhere that start with "They say...." Who her 'they' is is never clear but whatever she shares this way is always presented as gospel truth. Out of nowhere she announced, "They say menudo is good for hangovers."
I laughed, couldn't help it
, then opined that AFAIK it's merely a tradition among certain cultures where, I'm guessing, hot and fragrant menudo would be easily available in early morning stores and stalls at a time of day when a hot meal, with some protein, would be restorative. In the L.A. of my childhood, I remember the Menudo signs on food trucks parked outside some bars at the poor, largely hispanic, end of town. But speaking of Mexican food, my once-favorite hangover cure, and I admit this without shame, was canned Gebhardts tamales. The appeal was probably simplicity--open can, heat--and they were good. I have no 'go to' these days and fortunately rarely need such a remedy, and if I did I'm more likely to reach for an apple. But were Gebhardts still around, there'd probably be a can in my pantry just in case.
What's your morning-after fix for overdoing it?
