WotD: Hair of the dog
If you drink alcohol, eventually, you’re going to have a hangover.
There’s nothing worse than the morning after the night before, so today, I’m going to introduce you to the hair of the dog.
Now, there are as many hangover ‘cures’ as there are types of alcohol.
Of course, we have to take them with a grain of salt, desperate times call for desperate measures, and a person with a head-splitting hangover will try anything once.
If you try the hair of the dog, it means when you wake up with a hangover, you immediately drink more alcohol.
The idea is that instead of a hard recovery, you will have a gradual one.
You can try it if you want, but I don’t think it works.
The best way to prevent a hangover is not to drink in the first place.
Where does the expression hair of the dog come from anyway?
Well, there was an old wives’ tale that if you were bitten by a rabid (狂犬病) dog, you could be cured if you drank a mixture containing some hair from that dog.
That idea was then expanded because if it works for rabies, it just might work for hangovers, too, right?
Yeah, well, you and I both know it doesn’t make any sense at all.
However, as I already mentioned, desperate people will do extreme things.
At least having another beer early in the morning and calling it the hair of the dog is better than actually consuming a dog’s hair.
Besides, hangovers don’t often kill people, but rabies does.
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