> Sugar seems to help in the morning, and also vodka seems to go well with
> Coke or orange juice, both of which are high on sugar.

This works if you are getting slightly buzzed, but in my experience this
does not work for serious drinking - or in any case you have to be extra
vigilant in keeping yourself hydrated.

Orange juice is my favourite revival drink - in the morning the fruit sugars
hit the system quickly, but they do not disappear quickly like simpler
sugars do.  In an emergency, Gatoraid or something similar is a good
post-drinking binge beverage - it is designed to deal with heavy -duty
dehydration.  It normally tastes like rancid sock sweat - but not when you
really need it.

> My bigger problem seems to be beer. While good meal after and during
> vodka-drinking and a brisk walk after leave everyone and everything happy,
> beer produced low-intensity headache and bloated feeling. Yuk.  These days
> I'm inclined to recommend brandy (small sips with lots of lemon) or
> reasonable quality red wine.

Do you have wheat beers available at all in your part of the world?  They
are really nice and do not seem to have the negative aspects of beer - while
keeping all the positive ones.

> and overactive. Except vegetarian beer drinkers - they are probably there
> for the calories.

The really strict vegetarians also need it for vitamin B12.

> Wine drinkers - I have nothing specific agains them except they obviously
> operate on a different wavelength in "pretentious fuck" sort of way.

Wine drinkers seem to fall into a very wide variety of types - from
pretentious fucks who do not have the fine ability to distinguish tastes
that is required to actually be a real wine snob - to people who just drink
whatever the house wine happens to be.  Heavy red wines go well with very
fatty meals.  I remember being served the "vegetarian plate" in a German pub
in Hanover - veggie burger, fried in loads of oil, salad drenched in oil,
mashed potatoes filled with butter - and red wine went with that really
well.

> Non-drinkers.. Reformed alcoholics are into business with a strong "save
the
> world" element. Still, on the overall activity, efficiency, and
> effectiveness scale vodka is number one....

The non-drinkers who have simply never acquired the taste without having any
ideological objections to booze seem to be among the most tolerable people
around.  They usually have an execellent grasp of the phenomenal world -
although I get the impression that the noumenal is beyond them more so than
for many others.



Misha