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Turkey's magical hangover cure
In an unassuming storefront tucked away on a bustling Istanbul street, an older man was assembling a vividly colourful package of pickles. Drawing from buckets of cauliflower, beetroot, plums and peppers, he mixed them into a plump bundle inside a sturdy, clear plastic bag and sealed them in a pool of their own juices.
Adem Altun, 64, is a third-generation pickle man who has practiced his craft since he was a boy. He operates the original location of Pelit Turşuları in Istanbul’s Kurtuluş neighbourhood, with branches in different pockets of the city. It’s one of a number of classic pickle shops in the city that adhere to decades-old techniques passed down from generation to generation.
“For us, a meal without pickles is not complete. There are pickles on every table. Sometimes this drops in the summer because pickles prefer the cold,” Altun said.
But I wasn’t there to learn about pickles, or to pick up an assorted mix for the dinner table. I’d come to his shop – conveniently located a few blocks away from my apartment – for a different purpose: I’d drunk a little too much the previous night, and a glass of pickle juice is famed as a quick, tasty and natural cure for even the fiercest of headaches.
“In terms of minerals it is very rich,” Altun said, offering an explanation as he served me a glass.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 14 2019, @07:31AM (6 children)
It definitely has electrolytes - but I disagree about the taste. First, I think pickle juice does taste good. Second, the more my body needs those electrolytes, the better it tastes. Take Gatorade, for instance. I really don't like the flavors. The best of them is Ice Blue or something like that. Normally, I don't like it much. The first half a bottle I drink on a hot summer day is forced down, because I don't like it. Couple hours later, I can gulp a bottle of the stuff down, and it tastes great, can't get enough of it.
Another point for pickle juice is, it has different stuff in it than any of those sport drinks. Drink some of both, and they supplement each other.
I think the best way to handle a hangover, is not to drink enough to get a hangover. I prefer to get a light buzz, then maintain that buzz, until I'm ready for bed. Drunk always seemed dumb to me, then it seemed outright stupid after I saw people beaten to a pulp, robbed, or worse, for no better reason than they were drunk and defenseless.
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Monday January 14 2019, @09:06AM (5 children)
Oh, dear! I think we can all see where this is going.
OMG, the Runaway is drinking his own piss, er, I mean, electrolytes! It's like Brawando, it has electrolytes! And do you expect us to drink the stuff in the toilets?
Explains so much about Runaway, stuff the Hillbilly and Hookworm, and peeling lead-based paints could not, or just barely could. Pickle Runaway!!! Now there is a chant I could get behind, or under, or into the heart of:
What do halophytes do with the salt? [stackexchange.com]
Those phantoms of Runaway's imagination, bugs on the side of the road, or halophobes hating on the salt.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 14 2019, @09:30AM (4 children)
No, Ari, we've been trying for years to break you of that habit.
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday January 15 2019, @03:13AM (3 children)
Not sure if you got the reference, you incorrigible redneck, since you are living the movie instead of ever having seen it, except the central character was Army, so smarter than the average swabie. Idiocracy [imdb.com], once thought to be comedy and satire, but now we see it as prophecy. Brawndo has electrolytes! Camacho is President. Runaway sounds like a . . . Go away! 'Bating!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 15 2019, @03:40AM (2 children)
What you need to understand is, the movie is the dumbed-down version of several stories, written by several authors. You've heard of the Eloi and the Morlocks? I'm fairly sure that was the first version of the story.
More, a number of us have been warning the world about the idiocracy for decades.
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday January 15 2019, @05:47AM (1 child)
FTFY
Let me guess, Runaway, you are Judge Buford J. Mulefucker [youtube.com] in the original film? I object that you interrupted me while I was watching "Ow, My Bawls!". Judge should be, all like, Muslins is bad and terrorist shit. Carry on, oh smartest person left on the planet as the result of a failed military experiment!
[Somehow, in the back of my mind, I think that Runaway may have been involved in something more like "Jacob's Ladder" [imdb.com], especially since he did mention exposure to the Hypno-Toad, and had dropped enough details for anyone to track him back from Texarkana. Do you know what happened after your unit was rotated out to the real world, Runaway? Can you remember? There is a Black Mirror episode [wikipedia.org], which you should not watch, about precisely this. The title comes from a post-WWII study by S.L.A. Marshall [wikipedia.org], who discovered that most men in combat did not take aim at the enemy, because, you know, killing is wrong. So during the Vietnam conflict, they discovered that while soldiers would not kill, even to save their own lives, they would kill to save their buddies. Thus small unit fire-squad cohesion was built into US Army doctrine. You might have missed this, being out of actual combat and messing about on ships. But on the other hand, Runaway could have been one of the early experimental subjects, who were primed with a virus, or operant conditioning, to accept Fox News indoctrination. Is it a coincidence that Fox News has been broadcast on US Military channels for the past decade or more? So, I am suggesting a bit more sympathy for Runaway1926. He may be a casualty of the great psycho-war of the Sixties, when Men Stared at Goats. [imdb.com] Or, Runaway is just a ignorant Polack Hillbilly Redneck (triple threat!). I leave it to Ockham's Razor to decide. Or, Russians. ]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 15 2019, @02:58PM
Oh, thanks for the reminder.
I'm supposed to go down to the dungeon and feed {nick} this week. Do you think I should feed him early in the week, or later in the week?
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!