February 7th: Hangover Awareness Day

It's Hangover Awareness Day so here are 10 bizarre hangover remedies from around the world:

A Bloody Mary

1. Pliny the Elder recommended a deep-fried canary, eaten whole, bones and all.
2. Ancient Greeks treated hangovers with a breakfast of sheep lungs and two owl eggs.
3. Sicilians with hangovers would eat dried bull penis. 
4. In Ireland it was said that the cure for a hangover was to get your mates to bury you up to the neck in moist river sand (provided they weren't too hungover themselves to do it). 
5. Mongolians would drink a cocktail made of Tomato juice and pickled sheep's eyes. 
6. A popular US remedy is the Prairie Oyster, a cocktail of ingredients that include Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, salt n' pepper, and a whole raw egg. Optional ingredients include a shot of vodka, ketchup or tomato juice, and vinegar.
7. In the wild west cowboys drank a tea made of Rabbit droppings steeped in hot water. 
8. Nineteenth century chimney sweeps were known to dose themselves with a lump of soot mixed into warm Milk.
9. The Romanians, Mexicans and Turks all recommend tripe soup. Tripe, offal made from the digestive tract of pigs or cows, boiled in a greasy, salty soup with Garlic and cream. 
10. Haitian voodoo practitioners would stick 13 black-headed pins into the cork of the bottle that made them drunk.

If you don't fancy trying any of those, though, 10 suggested modern remedies are: 

1. drinking lots of water,
2. taking a couple of pain killers, 
3. Vitamin B (found in marmite or vegemite) 
4. Vitamin C
5. A peanut butter, honey and banana sandwich on white bread (replaces sugars).
6. Coffee
7. More booze (Hair of the dog)
8. Taking a hot bath
9. Sleeping it off
10. Going for a run.