The Hangover Cure You’ve Been Waiting For Is Here And It’s Meat

Serious Pig

It feels as though every week the science world is boasting about a new hangover cure. Some of the fool proof remedies include Asian pears, licking up your own sweat, kid’s drinks, and pickled sheep eyeballs in tomato juice. I’m positive that last “cure” is just a way to make a person vomit because people always feel better after vomiting.

This time the cure is also edible but much more appetizing than sweat, Pedialyte or eyeballs. It’s meat. Big sticks of meat.

Serious Pig is a craft meat company specializing in putting all our favorite proteins in a handy handheld snack. Owners George Rice and Johnny Bradshaw have turned their meat-making attention to the unfortunate feeling of the hangover. The two gents figure “when you’re feeling awful, why not toss some salami into the situation.” Ummm…sure.

Rice and Bradshaw developed Hangover Cured, a high-protein meat snack that contains 100% British pork, chili and ginger. The chili and ginger are supposed to ease symptoms associated with hangovers. If they don’t, eh, at least you’re putting something into the belly to just vomit up later. It’s better than bile.

But does it work. According to the investigators at Vice…sure, why not?

One food nutritionist, Angela Dowden, claims that it’s an idea with legs.

“Nibbling on high-quality meat protein at the same time as drinking is a really good idea, as it’s rich in the amino acids you need to make neurotransmitters (messengers that transmit signals throughout the body),” Dowden says. “Alcohol interferes with the levels of these neurotransmitters, which is one of the reasons we can feel bad after overindulging.”

Hangover cure meat can’t hurt and perhaps just the placebo effect of thinking the meat will cure the heaves is just enough to make a person feel better after drinking a little bit too much during the holiday season. We’ve found the best hangover remedy is not drinking so damn much.

[via Munchies]

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