Now that Christmas is over for another year, the next big landmark on the social calendar is New Year’s Eve.
While Christmas is a time for over-eating (and over-spending), new year is known for more liquid indulgences. Martinis Online, based in Calgary, Alberta (the martini capital of the world, so the site says), was put together by a group of martini connoisseurs to “fill the glaring hole in the public’s martini knowledge, a hole that only our alcohol-fuelled zest could fill.” You’ll find enough martini recipes to give you a headache before you even get the cap off the vermouth.
That reminds me of a joke. A bloke walks into a bar and orders martini after martini, each time removing the olives and placing them in a jar. When the jar was filled with olives and all the drinks consumed, he started to leave. Another customer, puzzled by the man’s actions, asked him what it was all about. “Simple, ” the first man replied, “my wife just asked me to pop out and buy a jar of olives.”
Did you know the Babylonian new year celebration lasted for 11 days? I didn’t until I found https://wilstar.com/holidays/newyear.htm. I think after 11 days of celebrations, you’d probably be in need of a hangover cure.
The Global Hangover Guide offers various delights, including the Turkish tripe soup with garlic vinegar. I think the hangover sounds like the preferable option here.
However, if at the end of the day (or the bottom of the bottle) you wake up feeling like you’ve had a tongue transplant and it doesn’t fit, and you know you’re going to spend the day dealing with a bad case of bottle flu, you could simply log on to the internet and surf to Hairy Tongue, a lifeline for the hungover on the internet.
The site says its aim is to provide solace through distraction because “no matter what they say, there is no better cure for a hangover than simply pretending it’s not there.