Food for 3 in the AM.
You stumble into your place after one (three... seven) too many drinks.Throw your keys on the table. Take off your coat. You're STARVING. You figure you gotta get something on your stomach b/c if you don't, you're gonna be siiiiiick.
So, what do you eat/drink?... not as a preventive for a hangover really, but more b/c you've already (over) indulged and you figure... if you're gonna go for it, ya might as well really go for it, and when ya do it... ya gotta do it big!
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37 Comments:
bacon, eggs and toast. pizza if to silly to cook. if really silly then celery with peanut butter. the only time i can eat it.
dearrie at 9:09PM on 01/29/09
If it's after one or three or seven and I've had too many drinks, this would not be happening, as I would have stopped off at the diner before I went home and had some eggs over medium, bacon well done, home fries and buttered rye toast.
chisai at 9:18PM on 01/29/09
Grilled cheese sandwich! Or peanut butter and banana on toast.
PeanutButter at 9:27PM on 01/29/09
I'm with chisai, but our designated driver or cab driver would take us (never drink alone) to the diner and we'd have eggs, pancakes, hash browns - a real smorgasbord of breakfast comforts.
Upon arriving at home, the vodka would go in the freezer for bloodies in the AM...assuming it's a weekend.
Can't remember the last time I/we did this....got old.
Nonny at 10:13PM on 01/29/09
I would have gotten an Egg McMuffin or some Taco Bell on the ride home, if I had a nice DD. If not, I would have made eggs/toast/hashbrowns or a grilled cheese.
Hey, tomorrow's Friday... :)
heelsonbricks at 10:25PM on 01/29/09
Grilled cheese is one, so is french toast or PBJ on toast.
I also really like a baked potato topped with whatever is in the fridge. Cheese, leftover veggies or chicken, sour cream, plain yogurt, BBQ sauce...depends on what is there. I microwave the tater on nights like that though...no oven!
sadiepix at 11:15PM on 01/29/09
Chisai is right take the drunks to the diner so they can leave their mess there. Blueberry muffin for me and a capuccino.
JerzeeTomato at 11:24PM on 01/29/09
If I had to cook/put it together myself, probably just some cheese on toast, or lox, if I had it on hand. If I could snap my fingers and the food would magically appear in front to of me - eggs, bacon and chips (fries). With ketchup. Eggs and bacon with ketchup, that is. Chips would be good just with salt or malt vinegar.
brooke29 at 11:25PM on 01/29/09
I would usually do a fast food run on the way home; always including something fried and small to eat while driving...chicken tenders, onion rings, tacquitoes, and of course, fries. I think Jack in The Box had, for a short time, an "appetizer plate" that was PERFECT for polishing off before I tore into the burger and fries once I got home. Mmmm.
BUT...if I didn't stop, I'd make eggs, in some form, and Spam, or hot dogs, or lunchmeat, or anything else good and salty. Over rice. Then, because the plate could never be garnished or salty enough, I'd douse it with soy sauce and/or oyster sauce.
Mmmm...makes me wanna tie one on!
hungryinhouston at 11:27PM on 01/29/09
lots of water to ward off the hangover. Back in my drinking days, (Ye suffering Gods how I miss those days!) I always drank a ton of water before going to sleep and never woke up with a hangover. On the few occasions I forgot to do this, or was just too fargone, I had to have cream O' wheat cooked with milk it settled the tummy quick and easy.
huneybumper at 11:34PM on 01/29/09
I would never go home to eat after a night of drinking. I'd either hit the diner across from the bar I usually go to and get fries and mozzarella sticks, go to Jack-in-the-box for the Ultimate Cheeseburger, or hit the all-night Mexican diner across the street from my house for one of their EXCELLENT breakfast burritos, extra cheese and salsa.
Now I'm hungry for artery clogging goodness.
PumpkinBear at 12:12AM on 01/30/09
pizza rolls - so perfectly greasy, yet satisfying. i cant remember having a party without them
listener at 12:19AM on 01/30/09
Had an Italian tell me once that spagetti carbonara was traditional for after the bars.
I do pizza, but that's so I don't catch the house on fire.....
KimmieD at 12:36AM on 01/30/09
something microwavable. No way in hell I'd let myself cook under the influence. Probably a Costco Chicken Bake. And lots of pink vitamin water.
And then go to bed with a bucket by the bed. Blah.
mikaque at 12:54AM on 01/30/09
All night diner food, if they don't throw you out. At least that's where we used to go in my past life. I remember a lot of laughing while trying not to be too boisterous, but I think most people in a diner at that time of the morning have been partying pretty good. The poor, poor wait staff. Nothing worse than dealing with a bunch of rowdy drunks when you're cold stone sober. Hopefully, they leave decent tips. It was fun while it lasted, and now its the last thing I want to do. I do remember great breakfast food in the middle of the night, back in the dark ages. ;-)
PerkyMac at 1:06AM on 01/30/09
I usually stop at this little store near my apt. It's a convienience store but it's got a decent deli. I grap a couple super cheap jalapeno chesse corndogs and I'm good to go.
sailordave at 1:33AM on 01/30/09
A wawa hogie, which is what I'm doing right now in this very situation!
AlBee at 3:06AM on 01/30/09
Which would consist of turkey, provolone, a little bit of mayo, and some lettuce. And baked lays, (original) and some XXX vitamin water (which I'm not really sure why i got since I don't like it.)
I forgot to add that bit in there.
AlBee at 3:10AM on 01/30/09
Yep, Denny's - I used to work night shift there serving the drunks after the bars closed; so I figure I have earned a few 3am meals there myself :-) It's the only time I can stomach a "Moons Over My Hammy"
I'd be too scared to try and cook myself anything - usually my husband forces me to drink some water and we go straight to bed.
@Perky - once a guy did leave me a $100 bill because he thought it was a $10; I tried to give it back and he got very indignant and accused me of calling him a drunk - so I shut up and kept it :-)
cowprintrabbit at 3:12AM on 01/30/09
my friends and i always hit perkins after the bar... its a toss up then for me between an omelette and french toast and a patty melt with a salad. although the other night i was too drunk to read the menu and all i could think about was a french dip [which ive never ordered before, anywhere] so i ordered that and it was damn good.
im pretty sure i cant try and cook for myself when im drunk. usually after drinking with my bf we eat some chips or some kind of dessert. or we do a mc donalds/taco bell run. fast food just tastes so amazing when youre drunk, and it feels like you EARNED it [by making it there in one peice and coherantly ordering in the drive through. and remembering to bring you wallet!].
redzerostar at 3:38AM on 01/30/09
Come on, don't get yourself in this state and you won't be wondering about this. MODERATION with the booze or stay away.
When I was young and stupid I didn't eat anything because it was not going to stay anyways.
pjracz10 at 4:25AM on 01/30/09
@pjracz10- Hmm... I wasn't "in this state" when I came up with the topic. I just figured it would be a fun thing to talk about sometime. I wonder about things all the time. I didn't see this topic being so obscure that a sober (which I was) person wouldn't think about it. But, hey, whatev.
meg3j at 6:24AM on 01/30/09
aspirin and grilled cheese.
pooch at 9:41AM on 01/30/09
Steak tips cooked in the cast iron skillet. Cook, throw on a plate, eat in bed...regret it heartily when you wake up. : ) Oh, and wash down with lots of water.
Junie at 10:34AM on 01/30/09
@cowprintrabbit - I second Denny's! It's the best place for 3am food after drinking. The nachos are suprisingly good!
mepolo at 10:58AM on 01/30/09
@cowprintrabbit ~ sounds like you deserved that tip? Did the drunks tip well or stiff on the tip? I know our group overtipped to the point of absurdity, but it was guilt money. LOL
PerkyMac at 11:03AM on 01/30/09
I always crave White Castle when I've had 3 or 7 too many drinks.
drew13000 at 11:50AM on 01/30/09
Chips with malt vinegar, ketchup, salt, and mustard from the kebab truck parked across the street from our college (which always gave someone food poisoning at some point). That stuff is delicious when you're drunk, and tastes like absolute crap when you're sober.
Aynsl156 at 12:36PM on 01/30/09
My boyfriend and I usually just go with whatever is in the house: eggs, pasta or any dinner leftovers! In desperate circumstances, we'll stop and get something.
Hillary
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Chew on That at 1:33PM on 01/30/09
Jack in the Box tacos! Mystery meat goodness.
Or grilled cheese if I had the wherewithall. It would taste good, I wouldn't cook though. Effort involved.
When I was in San Antonio we would always, always end up at Jim's. (It's like Denny's)
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 6:11PM on 01/30/09
There are these hot dog stands stationed outside of the bars in my neighborhood that sell hot dogs with cream cheese. I never heard of it before I moved to Seattle, but my god they are amazing drunk food. We like to pick one up before we stumble home.
Deseree at 7:37PM on 01/30/09
Hmmmm - out grew this activity years ago. Before anyone flames me, I'm neither condoning or condemning late nights out. The older I get the less I want to.
But reflecting on many years in the past with a beer in one hand, cab fare in the next my favorite was a stop at Denny's. Just about anything on the menu that was fried caught my attention.
Ribster at 8:25PM on 01/30/09
@Perky - usually they tipped pretty well, I think it gets hard to calculate a proper tip so most people overcompensate "Less shee, 15% of $20 muss be at leasht $10, right guyshh?" Of course it didn't hurt to be 17 and a size 4 either :-)
cowprintrabbit at 2:24AM on 01/31/09
@megj3- Sorry I was being sarcastic. At 3am even sober I won't eat anything, too many weird dreams for me. But when I did come home in the days loaded I would do what Honeybumper would do and drink a ton of water, that would ward off the next day jitters. The next day though I would go out and get a big breakfast (usually a greasy dive someplace)
pjracz10 at 1:35PM on 01/31/09
@cowprintrabbit ~ that's what I thought. I'm glad the jerks ('cuse me, ahh... gentlemen) made it worth your while to put up with their uhhh.... antics. ;-)
PerkyMac at 2:23PM on 01/31/09
Hmm...if I'm still out, we hit "Canyon Pizza" a PSU institution and home of the $1 slice of pizza. It is amazing drunk. But sober? I would never dare.
I usually have oatmeal--how anti climactic. It fills my belly and wards off any threat of a hangover...or at least lessens the effects :)
sweethunibabi at 10:25PM on 02/01/09
The awful waffle.. oops! I mean the Waffle House.
floridagirl at 11:19PM on 02/01/09