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Hangover Helper

The Loony Dook.

Edinburgh, Scotland

The Loony Dook

Every New Year's Day, locals don gaudy costumes and dive into the frigid Firth of Forth.

Yakamein

Mixing soy sauce, Creole spices, and spaghetti, this hybrid soup is the embodiment of New Orleans' melting pot.

Utopenci

These “drowning” pickled sausages may be named for their appearance or their inventor's untimely demise.

İşkembe Çorbası

In Turkey, drinkers head off hangovers with creamy tripe soup.

Ciorbă de Burtă

The secret to Romania's hangover-busting soup is tripe.

A bowl of Armenian khash.

Khash

In Armenia, hangovers call for a hearty soup of boiled cow hooves.

Gyeondyo-Bar

South Korea's grapefruit-flavored ice cream bar promises to help your hangover.

Caldo de Cardán

In Bolivia, this bull penis soup is considered an aphrodisiac and hangover cure.

Prairie Oyster Cocktail

The hangover cure gets its oyster-like texture from a raw egg.

Patsas

This offal soup is a classic Greek hangover cure.

Labskaus

A hangover cure that spans classes and centuries.

Irn-Bru

A citrusy cream soda with a hint of rust outsells Coca-Cola in Scotland.

Komplet Lepinja

Cream, eggs, and pork drippings combine in the ultimate Serbian bread bowl.

A churo snail simmered in soy with dale dale root foam at Maido, a restaurant in Lima.

Churo Snails

Lima chefs love to experiment with this large Amazon river dweller.

A plate of guatita, with rice and plantains.

Guatita

The Ecuadorian cure for a hangover is beef tripe stew.

A lone umeboshi between chopsticks.

Umeboshi

These salted, pickled plums are an ancient Japanese hangover cure.