It’s not bad, actually. The lime makes it palatable.
I’m not even sure what drinks use bitters in the recipe, but my parents had a bottle of them in the cabinet forevah. I don’t recall it being used except for my hiccups (which can be pretty damn annoying when I get them).
OK, you got me on that one. What is the “wrong side” of a cup?
Wait, what? Reverse peristalsis is vomiting. Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm.
The side opposite the one nearest your mouth.
If it happens again, try this:BOO!
Heh!
tips hat to Bryan Ekers
See now, this is odd–that article I linked to earlier points out that there are different components to the hiccup beyond the diaphragm spasm, apparently it’s a pretty complicated pattern:
So far all of the recommended hiccup cures (aside from the bitters and lime one–by the way, EWWW! 
) have a strong component of distraction and breaking of concentration. It requires a fair amount of thought and coordination to drink from a glass on the side opposite your mouth, even to sit quietly and not work your mouth to process sugar requires quite a bit of suppression of natural inclination. I wonder if getting rid of hiccups has a mental component as well as the purely physical–kind of an autosuggestion thing? I’d also be really curious to know what the heck are hiccups FOR? What purpose does that serve? It’s just weird…
It’s sort of like when you have to pee real bad, but you’re not able to relieve yourself? I find that if I distract myself from the urge, it tends to go away; for a short period of time, at least.
Just so’s you don’t think I’m crazy…Angostura bitters - Wikipedia
(seriously…it works and it doesn’t suck all that bad)
I use the drink from the other side of the cup trick. Works every time. Another thing that works really well is having your manager hide outside the bathroom door and leap out at you screeching and waving her arms as you exit, but I realize that’s impractical under ordinary circumstances.
As a bartender (who is supposed to have an answer for everything) and as others have posted…
A lime with a few dashes of Angostura Bitters on it is supposedly a cure. I’ve handed out lots of those.
Another cure is drinking from the other side of the glass. Only I was always told that people should try it upside down…i.e., while they are bent over, so that they have to attempt to drink from the far side of the glass while also drinking with their head towards the floor.
The latter trick works more often than the former, IME, but the real trick is getting people to actually try it. If you try and don’t succeed you end up wearing half that glass of water.
I don’t get hiccups very often and when I do, I just hold my breath for 60 seconds and that almost always works…
But that’s just me. I read a bio of Margaret Mitchell–author of Gone with the Wind and I vaguely recall that her husband had so many years of hiccups that he was hospitalized.
Can you imagine?
Unfortunately, I can imagine, and the very thought gives me the willies! I thoroughly detest getting hiccups and I think I’d be onboard with suicide pretty quickly if I got a case that lasted more than a day!
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