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Anytime I'm drunk I get a craving for hot dogs. But this is always after 2am, and not a hot dog shop to be found within staggering distance. Damn.

Is Jerzee serious? People who are very drunk should not do a lot of things, such as driving, but I don't think eating is one of them. I doubt there are very many drunken choking deaths each year in the United States, but hey- I could be wrong.

When drunk I love really comforting diner-type food: mozarella sticks, patty melts, fries, etc. etc. It's greasy and bad for you, but goddamn does it taste good at 3 a.m. when you've had too much bourbon.

Subway pizza sub or nachos!

pancakes actually sounds like an awful idea to me.... i agree with the fried food thing - fries, mozz sticks, cold leftover chinese food, pizza.

in college after leaving the bars we would go to the pizza place and ask for "a slice with cold cheese" - they would give us a hot slice, with a handful of shredded mozz sprinkles on top that would slowly melt into the rest of the slice. mmm...

greasy breakfast at a diner.
ramen's awesome too, but I don't have access to good late-night (early morning?) ramen here.

and bacon= hangover aid!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5118283/Bacon-sandwich-really-does-cure-a-hangover.html

I don't eat a lot of Mexican food, but after I've been drinking, I always crave a chicken burrito a la suiza from Mr. Taco, which is thankfully open 24 hours.

53rd and 6th Halal cart! Best drunk food in the world!

chicken fingers or nachos.

It kind of depends on the circumstances. If I'm at home, then Rosemary and Olive Oil flavored Triscuits topped with Saga blue cheese and pepperoni. If I'm out in the Big City and it's in the 2 am range, a sausage sandwich from one of the street vendors (like "The Sausage Guy" on Landsdowne St.) or we go into Chinatown. If I'm out locally, we get pizza or Chinese delivered after we get home.

Chinese beef noodle bowl, and deep fried rock salt and chili tofu. I had this combination after a wedding reception and now I crave it every time I get tipsy.

The more I drink the less I find myself caring what I'm eating.

Greasy meat is good, bread is good.

Mac n cheese with some weird add-in. Not sure why I need to be try out new combos when drunk...

Oh! And patty melts are great too!!

hot wings, party mix (like Chex), salt and pepper chips...mmmmmmmm

Late night trips to IHOP or Denny's!

pizza duh! i think this was invented as drunk food. extra cheese, extra hot sauce, side of marinara.

i prefer to save the greasy stuff for the morning, i think it is the perfect hangover cure. favorite is...french fries,pancakes, and coffee (at a diner, duh)

my old roommate and i used to have this strange eating habit when we were drunk: come home from bar, make a crap load of brussel sprouts, drench in butter, inhale brussel sprouts, fight over last brussel sprout. wake up in morning and wonder why apartment smells so awful.

Cheap frozen pizzas (e.g. Totinos Party pizza) or pizza rolls. Pizza in any form, really!

lately, it's been a gyro or cheeseburger plus chicken nuggets, 3 pieces of fried chicken and fries from the 24 hour fried chicken joint on St. Nicholas ave. i never finish it, but that's the point; then i have leftovers for hungover lunch.

12-step programs on the house!

Pizza with a side of hot man.

JERZEE, if I were to heed your advice then our whole Christmas dinner ritual would go out the window. By the time we've finished the afternoon nips of bourbon and gone through the bottles of champagne, and enjoyed a bottle of sauterne with the foie gras (a once-a-year treat), another white with the fish course, and moved on to the Bordeaux with the roast beef, you can bet that the whole family (all adults, that is) is DRUNK. Then comes the dessert wine, and of course the after-dinner liqueurs, and on a particularly cold and festive evening, a Belgian strong ale might come out to carry us into the night and visions of sugarplums in our heads.

And Christmas is the more sober holiday at our house. I can't even begin to describe Thanksgiving!

Why does "drunk" have to have some sort of repulsive and reckless connotation? We are DRUNK, not tipsy, not buzzed, not lightly toasted, and happy with how wonderfully food and drink work together, which is not all that far off from what the original poster was asking about.

White rice drowned in tamari. I've always reasoned that something über-salty made sense given that alcohol is a diuretic.

hot dogs.

anything greasy, salty, and most likely extremely unhealthy for me..

If I've been downing beer, I like salty, crunchy junk food, like chips, pretzels, or especially Cheetos. Wine puts me in a fancier mood, I guess, so crave anything rich and decadent, like chocolate cake.

Definitely pizza and/or ramyun. Sullongtang at Gahm Mi Oak on 32nd is also a fav. Also you can't forget Hop Kee in Chinatown.

Tacos with extra hot sauce. Oh yes.

just about anything 'bad'. mexican and italian for real food and anything when it comes to junk fook... hot dogs are always good, drunk or sober :)

Mexican most definitely. Anything with sour cream, cheese, beans, and meat. That is the perfect drunk food.

too druk to cook rihgt nao hahaha. hmm not good. i shd go to bed.

Back in college, it was gyros. One bar that was two blocks from my house, shared it's men's room with a next-door gyros place. Very handy.

There are no gyros joints near my current favorite bar (my basement), so I have to settle for whatever's the most salty and greasy at the moment.

Fried things or diner food (which yes, is often one and the same but not always) or Mexican. I also usually end up baking when drunk (I dunno, natural instinct? weird compulsion?), but never want to actually EAT sweets.

LOL @ GirlFromJetCity > amen 2 dat

I live in Atlanta - the only true answer to this is the Awful Waffle (House)! ...and when in Europe, it's the doner kebap!

@prncs79 - What a stupid; immature comment.

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Your comment on "Ideas for a restaurant tenderloin dish?" just demonstrates your pessimistic communicaton skills and poor attitude.
I bet you're a very friendly foodie....

Two Thomas English muffins - toasted to be perfectly crisp with lots of melted butter. One with jelly and the other with peanut butter.
Eaten standing up in the kitchen of a frat house at 2am - nothing better in the world!

@andrearode
*pats on back*
wowza! when Im endulging in intoxication its (one of) my only reasons to justify unhealthy selections.
you should be proud!

Fries with mustard, ketchup, black pepper dust, and malt vinegar. Got this at the kebab truck once in England and never looked back.

White Castle!! Or, if I can't find a sober driver to get me to the Castle, a fried egg sandwich at home--bacon, egg over easy, cheddar, tomato, mayo and avocado, if I'm lucky.

Spaghetti carbonara with loads of parmesan and cracked pepper - made at 3 a.m. - somehow the clumsiness makes it more tasty. Accompanied by a gigantic, icy glass of soda water with a slice of lemon. Seriously - sometimes even saves you from a hangover.

In Echo Park, at the bottom of my hill right between the Little Joy and the Shortstop bars is a hot dog cart. Big hot dogs wrapped in bacon topped with onions and mustard. Omnomnomnom!!!

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i think my cravings are generally an attempt to lower the alcohol's affect. things like starches to give my body something else to process. french fries, bread sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, tortilla chips and salsa. i dont know if its a conscious effort or not, but when your body says jump, its a good idea to ask how high because its usually self-policing.

@prncs79: I'm curious to know why this is an immature topic! It's a very REAL question....people do drink and whether intentionally or not, some do get drunk and most people tend to eat afterwards!

You found the time to post your ignorant comment so apparently this topic wasn't too bad!

Potato chips, potato chips, potato chips!

Cheese Fries. I hate to say it though, its gotta be with wiz.

I was previously unable to comment because it had been so long. But my memory was refreshed last night, and salt and vinegar potato chips (with some barbeque ones thrown in for variety before they disappeared) really hit the spot.

To Jerzee -
People choke on food all the time - and I'd bet it's more often sober than drunk. Little kids and old people alone must have the majority - should we starve them? Lighten up. Have a beer - football's on.

I find any combo of pasta and tomato sauce is perfect - spaghetti, lasagna, mac 'n cheese with a serious tomato salsa and/or a ton of ketchup. Pizza works too.

Not that I disagree with a lot of suggestions above - breakfast at 3 am works for me, hot dogs, Canadian-Chinese food (no lobster or crab - just fried rice, sweet and sour whatever, noodles, etc.) are all great. And I like the peanut butter on an English muffin, although that's usually for the hangover next morning.

@sawyerriley Is it as good as Penn's chicken on a stick?

Those greasy tacos from Jack in the box if we have a d.d.around. Or else it's something that can be microwaved in case some one passes out. I don't like uses the oven or stove when i'm a bit tipsy or smashed.

Definitely pizza or the oversized amaaaazing chicken fingers from the 24 hour place on my college campus. Oh college, how I miss thee.

Been awhile, but I was and still am, an omlet person. So usually I would get a Denver omlet. And eat the entire thing! Wanted to soak up all the alcohol and then be able to maneuver into whatever I was going to be doing next! Add a bit of Maryjane and I will also add peach pie to the mix!
Gosh, I was a wild child in my 20's!

MCDONALDS -- I am such a bad drunk eater, I eat more than any person ever should. My favorite is cheeseburger/fries combo.

In college we were huge on ordering Chinese food-- crab rangoon in particular. Also loved fried chicken fingers in the dining hall dunked in honey.

After college, lived in the North End in Boston and frequented Bova's 24 hour bakery-- so it was huge arancini and mini calzones. They were disgusting.

Also in college, veggie corn dogs. Sounds disgusting, was amazing.

Dim sum. No really. When I lived in New York there was an amazing place in Flushing that served dim sum from 10a-4p and from 10p-4a and after drinking and listening to Irish music at the pub around the corner we'd all pile onto the subway and head out to Flushing. Now that I live in Michigan I do not have that option and it makes me sad.

I crave Jack In The Box when I'm drunk; specifically a Sourdough Jack. But I also usually crave fries, onion rings,spicy ramen, udon, and fried rice. I tend to avoid dairy things (except cheese) when I'm in this delicate state and go for greasy, fried, or spicy confections of goodness.

Ok, for all of those Southern Californiaites, you know what I mean when I say Tommies chili fries, extra cheese, with or with out onions. And if you aren't near a Tommies, of course there is always Dennies big egg breakfasts with eggs, bacon, sausage and the requisite pancakes. Does a body good. Personally, I think its all in the gease and the carbs. One to lubriicate and ease it out of the system; the other to absorb the alcohol before it does too much damage. However, since I am in Az and it's been years since I've been close to that state of craving, Thomas' english muffins toasted perfectly with home made apple butter butter works for me .

french fries and fresh mayo. mmmmm.

I am a salt freak...so, pretzels dipped in celtic grey sea salt.

My favorite after bar crawling in San Francisco was to stop at Bob's diner on Polk Street and get the worlds best Monte Cristo with twice-cooked fries. I've never found one like it anywhere...and I've looked!

Doner Kebap! I am convinced this is the worlds best drunk food.

And french fries, definitely. All it takes is one or two drinks and suddenly I want french fries.

But, if I am hungover...then its scramby eggs and homefries and bacon. mmm.

Funny Bones and chocolate milk - those are my must haves after a night of drinking. Unless the group is going for breakfast - then i'm in!

Cheesecake bites from Taco Bueno. Then french fries with ketchup from Whataburger.
Take any pretentious foodie, get them drunk, and they won't know the difference from foie gras to Big Macs

Do drink garnishes count? :-P

Dynamite Yaki from Go on St. Mark's in the East Village.

Doner kebap on a toasted baguette with loads of mayo and french fries.
And pad thai.
@GirlFromJetCity - couldn't agree with you more about the side of hot man.

Has no one heard of a garbage plate? i think it originated around rochester, ny.. best drunk food. ever... basically its a giant plate with either two hamburger patties or chicken fingers, french fries or homefries, mac salad, bread and covered in chopped onions.. you have to drench it in ketchup, mustard, salt and pepper.. its amazing...

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Cheese fries with feta dip from The Grill in Athens, GA (open 24 hours, and they don't mind my drunken revelry!) or animal style from an In N Out. Although I'm pretty sure everybody likes about anything from LaFonda dogs by the UGA library, in terms of nasty-ass street food. I'm nursing a gin and tonic right now, and getting absolutely ravenous reading your posts!

katerine, if i had the ingredients to make poutine at home, i would! i would have to drive to dysarts restaurant and, well, i would be drunk, *sigh* i wish they delivered.

I don't get drunk anymore, but after a few drinks, if there is cold fried chicken left over, it's gone! Dave

Whataburger taquitos: bacon, egg & cheese (with picante) or a Philly cheesesteak. Depends on whether I am in Texas or NJ/PA at the time of said drunk.

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