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Why do kebabs bought from dodgy street corners taste so good after copious amounts of alcohol, but so bad in the morning?

Asked by Point5r (142points) July 29th, 2009

I can never resist spending money on a massive meat and chips/doner kebab on the way home from a night out. It always fills me up perfectly, and feels amazing at the time.

However, waking up with the taste of last nights kebab still “fresh” on my breath is horrible. However, I swear it makes my hangovers at least more bearable.

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Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

Well it makes your hangovers bearable because at least you ate something post-alcohol and it tastes amazing then because you’re hungry

Point5r's avatar

I really wish I could just eat the salad though without craving the meat….insert gay joke here

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

@Point5r yeah but salad is no good when there’s alcohol in the system..aaaaaaaaaaand…i figure ‘insert gay joke here’ is in itself a gay joke

dUc0N's avatar

@Simone_De_Beauvoir – I always got mine with tomatoes… LOTS of vitamins and minerals in those, which come in handy since a hangover is basically recovery from a mild overdose of a depressant.

Point5r's avatar

@dUc0N at £1 a drink even for a snakebite, it didn’t feel like a mild overdose at the time.

dUc0N's avatar

@Point5r – Meh. At the time I was buying kebaps, I was usually more concerned with making sure that they gave me a pizza wrap.

To summarize:
Plain kebap = passable
Kebap wrap (i.e. tortilla-style) = win
Pizza wrap = super win.

(For the uninitiated/those who haven’t been to Europe, the pizza wrap is a tortilla as well, but with pizza-ish flavoring on the inside. This is commonly referred to as AWESOME. You can read up on kebaps and doners here.)

ragingloli's avatar

i don’t like tomatoes on my kebab. makes it too watery. i also don’t like onions on it. but i love the sheep cheese.

Point5r's avatar

When it comes to salad, hit me up with as much as I can get, that stuff doesn’t cost anything extra, which means I’m gonna grab as much as I can get away with.

NaturalMineralWater's avatar

Because your tongue is numb from the booze and anything reasonably edible besides the poisonous alcohol that you have been ingesting is going to taste like heaven.

laureth's avatar

My husband was stationed in Turkey and verifies that Doner Kebabs are delicious. :)

But anyway, things generally taste better after alcohol, I presume much in the same way that people at the bar get more attractive as the night goes on.

aprilsimnel's avatar

Isn’t it always the way? I only had that happen once, but in Sydney. And I stopped for a gyro. I was never drunk enough in London to actually go for a kebab. Where I went to uni, in Madison, Wisconsin, the equivalent was a stack of pancakes at IHOP.

In NYC, one can just go for a slice at a Ray’s Pizza. Any Ray’s Pizza. Ray’s Pizza: your sign of a mediocre slice, but enough grease to sop up those Jaeger shots at 4AM!

charliecompany34's avatar

sweeteners and corn syrup products. gelatinous shit that congeals after saved a day over. what you don’t eat, toss out.

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