# My worst hangover was caused by \[insert substance here\]. A poll. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 4, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762 "2003-02-04T19:33:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/41 "2003-02-05T03:41:25Z")
Absinthe. I thought I was going to die… I wish I did at the time. UGH!!! ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/42 "2003-02-05T03:55:05Z")
Similar to **FranticMad** , a girl … and yet I continue to go back for more… ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/43 "2003-02-05T04:02:12Z")
Ouzo. Missing time. Haven’t touched it since. The smell makes my stomach quesy and gives me flashbacks. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/44 "2003-02-05T04:19:03Z")
A non-alcohol-related painful memory: A neighbor and I were smoking pot. I started feeling _REALLY_ queasy. I swear I was melting, and not in a good way. When I went to bed I thought I had bugs crawling on me. I also thought I could hear them breathing. Found out the next day that he had laced it with PCP. Alcohol-related painful memory: Potato vodka from the Ukraine. Homemade potato vodka from the Ukraine. Homemade potato vodka from the Ukraine that had been bottled ohhhh 25 years earlier. _(shudder)_ ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/45 "2003-02-05T04:37:50Z")
I can’t do tequila shots anymore. I was hungover for three days last time I did shots at a party all evening. I drank Black Russians at the 9:30 Club in DC one night when I was about 18. I have no recollection of how I got home; I just remember being violently ill all the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/46 "2003-02-05T05:19:47Z")
[bold] GOLDSCHALGGER[/bold] ---
**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/47 "2003-02-05T05:22:25Z")
Damn it!!! **GOLDSHCAGGER** **RUMPLEMINTZ** **JAGERMEISTER** by themselves all was ok but combined they formed Hell in a glass that caused me to die several times before somebody somewhere pulled some strings and decided to suffer mostly alive instead ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/48 "2003-02-05T06:39:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arden Ranger \* > \*\*Ouzo. Missing time. Haven’t touched it since. The smell makes my stomach quesy and gives me flashbacks. \*\* I had to revisit that lovely product last month. It has been years, and the snakebite is still as sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smashed_Ice_Cream)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/49 "2003-02-05T06:40:50Z")
Vodka Cranberry and sours. Had about 15 of them one night, shortly before I moved cross country. I was throwing up for a day and a half, and the headache stayed for close to a week. I haven’t touched vodka since. ---
**Author:** ![StikyIcky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@StikyIcky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StikyIcky)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/50 "2003-02-05T08:30:53Z")
Approximate timeline: 1 PM: Eat lunch. 8 PM (I’m driving back to school): Stop at a gas station and eat two York Peppermint Patties for dinner (goddamn, I used to love those things). 8:48 PM: Arrive back at dorm. 9:20 PM: Friend brings a handle of Jim Beam to my dorm room. He, another friend and I commence taking shots while watching the NBA All-Star Game. …15 or so shots later… Actually, I really don’t remember much of went on that night. I recall crowding into another dorm room a floor down and watching idiots pay ugly girls to make out. Then, I go back to some girl’s room and lie down on her fouton. I calmly walk to her trash can and hurl–an enchanting mix of Beam ‘n’ Mint. I think someone must have carried me to my dorm room, because when I awoke I was somehow in my bed. Also, I had a goddamn wicked 4 day hangover that kept me from doing work, studying, reading, eating, or really doing anything that required I concentrate for more than 15 seconds at a time. To this day (about a year later), I’m still a bit sheepish about drinking whiskey, and I’ve only recently overcome my aversion to Peppermint Patties. ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/51 "2003-02-05T10:27:03Z")
A mixture of beer and really really really cheap Sambucca. ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/52 "2003-02-05T10:57:47Z")
Oddly, it’s Coca-Cola. I don’t get truly ferocious hangovers from alcohol, although I rarely have major binges on spirits and I don’t drink wine, I have been known to drink black beer in quantities that have felled lesser mortals who weigh 50 kg more than I. Given that, I get my worst hangovers from drinking soft drinks, especially Coke. And even they’re not too bad. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![auliya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90db22/32.png) [@auliya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auliya)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/53 "2003-02-05T12:47:12Z")
OMG Tequila. 30 years ago. From a mug of all things. I have never been so ill in my entire life. I have never touched it since, I still feel queasy at the memory. Shocking stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/54 "2003-02-05T15:18:34Z")
Sherry. The WORST hangover I’ve ever had came from drinking sherry with friends one evening. I was sick that night and almost all the next day. Add to the nausea the violent hammer-pounding-on-anvil headache, and you’ve got a woman determined NEVER to go through that again. ---
**Author:** ![Lao\_Tsu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lao\_Tsu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lao_Tsu)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/55 "2003-02-05T18:34:36Z")
LOTS of red wine and Kamibaze’s. Ugghh, very bad hangover. ---
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/56 "2003-02-05T19:57:17Z")
_Ahem_ 6 Budweisers 6 Hornsby draft apple ciders 1 750 ml bottle Bailey’s (STRAIGHT!) All this in the span of about 1.5 hours Decided to put my head down for a minute to “rest my eyes” Was apparently dragged into the bathroom by my sister-in-law and cousin after I started puking in my sleep. Hung over for 3 days Another time… 3/4 bottle VERY CHEAP pink champagne 1/2 liter VERY CHEAP gin mixed with Diet Pepsi Didn’t puke, but was hung over for 2 days. THis was about 11 years ago. I have never been able to drink Bailey’s again. I just started being able to drink (good) gin in mixed drinks. The smell still gets me though… MM ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/57 "2003-02-05T20:54:12Z")
Ouzo is way up there, but the winner is Scotch. I drank it warm out of a tankard because the limey bastards I was with told me that’s how Scotch is supposed to be drunk. To this day, the thought of Scotch makes me want to urp. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/58 "2003-02-05T23:21:30Z")
Beer. About 2-3 gallons of it on an empty stomach. ---
**Author:** ![gonzalo\_de\_cordoba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/848f3c/32.png) [@gonzalo\_de\_cordoba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzalo_de_cordoba)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/59 "2003-02-06T05:32:01Z")
I got seriously fu\*\*ed up on an enormous bottle of Manischewitz. I’m not Jewish, I just though there wasn’t enough Maddog in a bottle of Maddog, and needed a very, very, very big bottle of something. Manischewitz was it. It was the worst case of Blood Alcohol poisoning I ever had, and I had many cases of those. ---
**Author:** ![MemoryGongs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@MemoryGongs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MemoryGongs)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762/60 "2003-02-06T19:14:55Z")
my bandmates homebrew. it was really good but potent. i was sick for days. first time i ever puked through my nose [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-worst-hangover-was-caused-by-insert-substance-here-a-poll/152762.md?page=4)