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Hi everyone, welcome to PopLog Cool Talks. Today we're going to talk about what was the

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name of the episode?

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Munchies and Drunken Antidotes.

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Okay, so do you have any pre-drunkness thing that you eat before you get drunk?

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Well, I don't know. I don't really think so. I definitely notice it. You know, it's weird

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because I feel like I notice it that I get drunk much more quickly if I haven't eaten

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anything. But I heard recently that that's actually not true at all. That it doesn't

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matter how much you eat.

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I don't believe that at all.

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I mean, that's like an empiric fact for me. I mean, do you stop? I'd all be drunk right

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in five minutes.

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Yeah, same. Yeah, I always try to eat sort of like curry things, you know, like potatoes

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or bread or something like that. I probably usually like some sort of meat also.

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Oh really? I go to protein, lots of meat.

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But isn't that just your normal diet anyway?

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No, that would be my pre-drunk diet.

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It's like, oh, I'm going out to drink. Let me just have this, you know, platter of jamonibirico

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just to get ready.

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Yeah, no, I don't know. I have like much more things that like I go to when I'm already

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drunk like after I've been drinking, but I don't really have like a pre-party ritual,

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you know.

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Well, while being drunk, I spend anything that I'm just to play.

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Kind of, yeah, kind of. But somehow, I don't know, like for sure you also have these like

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recipes that you only ever seem to make when you like come home at like three o'clock in

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the morning.

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Ah yeah, of course. In my case, that would be quesadillas.

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Quesadillas?

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Yeah, quesadillas with cheese and mushroom.

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Nice. Yeah. I mean, sort of like cheese is, I think cheese is like a general sort of thing

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that just always works, you know.

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Yeah, even like just cheese directly from the bread.

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Yeah, I mean, for me, it's like definitely my go-to is like when I make lasagna, I always

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like make way too much and there's no like greater joy than coming home and being sort

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of like, oh, fuck, you know, like I really want to eat something. And every place is

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closed already. And then you look in the freezer or in the fridge and you still have like some

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lasagna left and you're like, oh my God, yes. And you just bang it into the oven. And then

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I always, I just kind of like hover it in olive oil and chili flakes just to make it

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even more kind of like artery closing.

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What stuff you eat in the street, like pizzas and burgers. I think that's also pretty, I

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mean, if anything, it's open. Donners for sure, kebabs.

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I think kebab is the ultimate drunk food, you know. It's like, which I don't like to

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say because it kind of like goes into kind of bastardizing kebabs as, you know, being

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something else than like this like beautiful art form of cooking. You know, I mean, like

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kebab culture is so amazing, but like a lot of people just think of like cheap kebabs

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that they get when they're really, really drunk, which is a shame, you know, but it's

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just, there's just nothing better. I mean, we said it before, like kebab is just the

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perfect food, you know, you've got some bread, you've got some meat, you've got salad, you've

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got some yogurt, you've got everything.

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Sneeze, sneeze, interruption. Yeah. So what about hangover foods?

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Well, hangover foods, like, um.

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Well, first of all, do you eat something before going to bed while being drunk?

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Yeah, always. If I can, always. Like, I feel like it's probably a really bad thing to do,

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but it just makes me feel a little bit better.

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No, I actually think it's like a, like an anti hangover pre antidote, eating at least

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something before going to bed and drinking lots of water as well.

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Yeah, water for sure. I think there's no doubt that drinking lots of water is really good

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for you, but eating like a plate of spaghetti, that's, you know, way bigger than your actual

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nutritional needs are at two o'clock in the morning, right before laying down. I don't

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think that that's very healthy at all, but still I do every time, you know, I mean, that's

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one of my go-to's like hangover things, especially if I haven't done any shopping and like I

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come home, there's nothing there. What's always there? There's always olive oil, there's always

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pasta, there's always chili flakes. And if you're lucky, if you're lucky, there's also

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still a bit of Parmesan in the fridge, you know, maybe even just a rind that you can

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still sort of fucking grate a little bit more off. So what do you make? You make, you know,

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pasta aglio olio, which is one of the best pastas in the world if you'll make it right.

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But usually when you come home at three o'clock in the morning, you're not making it right.

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You're just making a big oily, garlicky, chili mess, but it feels good. You know, it makes

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you, it makes you happy. I mean, that's, that's really what food's supposed to do.

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Well, in my case, as I said, I do wheat flour quesadillas and that's just, you know, basically

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a sandwich with cheese. I add some oregano and slices of mushrooms. That's it. You know,

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I cook the mushrooms and everything else is just, just like a sandwich and that's it.

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Quesadilla is basically a sandwich is something that we definitely need feedback on from Mexicans.

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It's basically just a sandwich, you know? Well, first of all, I don't know if quesadillas

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are Mexican or one of those American things that, that you see in Tex-Mex restaurants,

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like burritos, you know, and I know that there are also different meanings for quesadillas

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and different, I know here in Spain, there's something completely different. I think quesadillas

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are like very Mexican. Yeah. Okay. I've seen lots of street stalls with quesadillas, especially

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with like, like just with queso Oaxaca and zucchini blossoms, you know? Yeah. And mushrooms

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also or wheat la coche also, you know, it's very good. It is actually right. Like, yeah,

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tag wheat with tiny asshole. Yeah. It was like, we did, did I say something wrong? I can't

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judge, you know, I'm only 1 16th Oaxacan, so I can't, I have no judgment here. So going

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back to, to the hangover antidotes, I remember once working in a restaurant and I was feeling

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like really, really bad. And this waiter, not the barman, he gave me something. He said,

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this is disgusting, but after you're drinking it, you're going to feel better. So it was

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like a brown drink with ice. So I drink it and it was really fucking disgusting, but

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it was like magic. Like two minutes later I was, the hangover was gone. I felt good.

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Life was beautiful. I was like, what the fuck was this? And basically it was like a Bloody

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Mary with not so much gin and an espresso into the Bloody Mary. Wow. Yeah. That sounds,

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that sounds brutal. Shit. Yeah. That was the, the, but usually my go to hangover antidote

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is Gazpacho. Oh yeah. That's a very good, like Gazpacho, you mind the supermarket? Yeah.

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I drink like a whole liter of it. Yeah. That's really good. That kind of reminds me of, it's

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not a hangover antidote, but it kind of prevents it a little bit. We used to drink these things

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while we were drinking and I feel like they would kind of like keep us alive a little

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bit called pickle backs. You know, a pickle back. Is it like this hydrating salts, something

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like that? No, it's like a, it's like a little shot that you get. And it's like one part

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whiskey, one part the liquid from pickles, cucumbers from pickles. Okay. Sounds disgusting,

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but it's actually like, it actually works quite well and it's kind of like sour and

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salty and but like still booze and it just kind of like kicks you back into place. And

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yeah, they have their own appeal. They're kind of cool. They're kind of nice. I've seen

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something similar that is actually Mexican. It's like this little mixture of, I don't

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know, like tamarind with spices. I don't remember the name, but it's also something like, like

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a really strong spices in you drink if you're really, really drunk is to get like a kick

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back to life. Yeah. But then again, in Mexico, they have a lot of stuff like that. I mean,

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like, you know, have you ever heard of a toques the game? No. Toques in Mexico? No. Okay.

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So this is a, this is a very, very quintessential Mexican pastime when you are drinking. So

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you'll be in a bar or in a pulqueria or mezcaleria or whatever, you know, and then a guy will

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come by carrying a car battery and he'll say, Hey, who wants to play toques? And so he gives

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you, you and a friend, a metal sort of bar that's attached to a wire that's attached

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to the battery. And you and your friend have to hold this bar in your hand and he slowly

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turns up the voltage on the battery. And so you're getting shocked, electrocuted basically

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more and more and more until one of you like, let's go, which, you know, sounds insane.

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It is insane. You know, it's, it's crazy, but like, it's a, it's a really common game

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like in this, well, definitely in Mexico city when I was living there. But then again, it's

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kind of like, you know, when you're really, really drunk. But was, was the end of the

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game, the one who drops has to drink or? Well, depends what you, depends what you decide,

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you know, or you just lose, you know, and it's just like, everybody just loves, you

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know, that, that you're like electrocuted, but that, that'll kind of wake you up, you

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know, just being attaching yourself to a car battery. That's kind of an antidote. Okay.

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Yeah. I guess that worked. I remember in Bolivia, it was quite common to have a ceviche for your

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hangover. That's also very, yeah. That's also like a super good choice. Yeah. Like let's

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you digger it. Drinking let's you dig it. It's kind of like, you know, the same concept

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as drinking a spatcha when you're hungover. And sometimes I'll order like a poke bowl,

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but I guess that's just like a guilty conscience wash. Just feeling I'm eating something healthier

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after everything I've done before. Yeah, for sure. But yeah, I mean, sort of like salty,

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like fish, you know, it's just like, it's really good. Like for me, I, for example,

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when I'm super hungover and I need to eat something, I love eating like really kind

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of salty, fresh food. Like one of my favorite things is boquerones, which are these sort

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of like sardines sort of like on top of like pan to maca, you know, just like toasted bread,

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grated tomato, a bit of, you know, olive oil, salt. And it's like, it gives you like, it

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gives you the energy that you need to survive the oncoming day.