Guaranteed hangover cure (works in seconds!)
One day Jay, one of my co-workers at Angelica Kitchen, came in looking kind of hung-over. The first thing he said to me was something to the effect of: “I had too much to drink last night. Ugh. But I know something that will cure any hangover in seconds.”
Then he opened up the fridge, took out a spoonful of umeboshi paste (deseeded, mashed umeboshi plum, also known as Bainiku Ekisu), chewed it for a second and then swallowed it.
“There. Gone,” he said.
Then he set to work like he’d never worked before.
Amazing!
Now, it’s possible that Jay was just pretending to feel better so that he wouldn’t look like a fool for just having shoveled foul, rotten fruit into his mouth for no reason. But if so, he did a pretty spectacular job of faking alertness and competence the entire rest of the shift.
So then, might he have been faking his hangover earlier to seem cool for having got really drunk the night before? It’s possible, but I really don’t see why Jay would think he could impress me by simply getting drunk. Anyone can do that.
The obvious conclusion is that umeboshi paste is a miracle hang-over cure.
6 years ago