9 Things People Are Having to Get Over Hangovers Right Now

In China, strong green tea or water with lemon is a popular next-day hangover remedy.

Romanians turn to ciorba de burta, or tripe soup, to cure their hangovers. Cow stomach is boiled with cream, root vegetables, garlic, vinegar, and salt. The same remedy is popular in Mexico and Turkey as well.

When hungover, Germans turn to rollmops, a snack of onion and gherkin wrapped in pickled herring. It's part of the German hangover breakfast known as katerfrüstück.

The counterirritant known as the prairie oyster — hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, black pepper, and a raw egg yolk — was once the hair-of-the-dog choice in America, but it's unclear whether it was truly a hangover cure or merely a distraction.

The hangover cure in Mexico is vuelva a la vida, a wet seafood salad of shrimp, tomatoes, lime, onions, and cilantro. It literally translates as "return to life."

The Japanese swear by umeboshi, or pickled plums, for curing hangovers, along with other remedies such as green tea, persimmons, and miso soup with freshwater clams.

In Poland, it's all about swigging sour drinks to get rid of hangovers. Poles drink sour pickle juice or soured milk.

In Italy, strong, homemade coffee is considered the ultimate hangover cure.

In the Netherlands, the cure to a bad hangover is the hair of the dog that bit the night before. Maybe it was shots of Jägermeister, maybe it was cocktails, or maybe it was just plain ol' beer.