Christmas tipples: What are your go-to festive hangover cures?
The nation is expected to drink almost six billion units of alcohol between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day each year. Whether you're popping a bottle for your works festive do, enjoying a glass with your Christmas dinner, or hitting a New Year's party, you'll need a decent hang-over cure to hand. Here's the advice from some of you.
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00:00 My hangover cure for Christmas?
00:05 Probably, well I'm working Boxing Day this year at Spoons, so probably like a can of
00:11 Monster and a fry up from Weatherspoons. That would be my hangover cure.
00:16 I just keep drinking on this live.
00:19 Yeah, yeah.
00:20 It's not time to be hungover if you just keep drinking. Don't get hangovers. Shut up.
00:28 Sorry, I'm just better than everyone else.
00:31 I think water, lots and lots of water is very important and preferably before you go to bed.
00:38 And maybe eat, even though you don't feel like eating, I think it's good to eat some carbohydrates because I think that settles your stomach after.
00:47 But however, I know the government and other people worry about the costs to the NHS.
00:52 However, I really do think a little bit of festive spirit is a good thing.
00:57 I don't get hangovers. I don't get them. I never, ever get them. Even if I drink, I don't get them.
01:04 I wake up and I'm frightened clean like that.
01:08 What's your secret there?
01:10 I just eat what I'm drinking.
01:13 Maybe that's what it is.
01:15 Because every time I drink, I eat. I'm eating all the food, so bringing the alcohol up as well.
01:25 I do drink. I would say water in the morning, water at night and a cup of paracetamol in the morning.
01:35 Do you think we drink too much in the UK?
01:37 Yeah, we do. Yeah, we do. Definitely.
01:40 I don't drink a massive amount.
01:43 I usually have something like a Baileys or partial to gin and tonic and pina coladas.
01:54 We only have one or two. We don't go mad.
01:58 We've always got lots of drink, but it never seems to get drunk. Well, some of it does. The beer.
02:05 We're not regular drinkers, so the drink we might have at Christmas, if we do have a drink,
02:10 would be a little bit of cider and perhaps a little bit of wine.
02:14 Because we don't drink excessive, we can't give a cure for a hangover.
02:18 My advice for a hangover, don't drink excessively and then you won't need to cure yourself.
02:24 I remember terrible hangovers, but I think I've got wise enough to avoid them for a decade or so.
02:32 There's quite a few people that drink too much. Quite a few.
02:37 Whether they'll happen this year, I don't know, because money's so scarce, isn't it?
02:42 But they find money from somewhere, don't they?
02:45 Gin or Bacardi. And then I'll also have the fruity cider and Guinness.
02:54 Not all in one glass, of course. That might be a trial.
02:59 How about you, Paul? You got any Christmas tipples you can think of?
03:02 Cider or whiskey, I suppose.