Published Feb 10, 2006
OK, maybe I shouldn’t’ve had quite so much to drink at Saints & Sinners last night, but I just had to check out the new bar that’s just a couple of blocks away. Everyone needs a walking-distance watering hole,right? And I’ve never been able to pass up a martini (although, next time, back to the usual dirty).
Still, is it really necessary for the city to be tearing up the street in front of my house with jackhammers? For hours on end? Owie!
I had one mojito at La Bodeguita del Medio last night. (It’s a Cuban place that got written up by the NYT a few years ago. Happily, people seem to have forgotten that, now, and it’s again possible for people who live a block away to drop in and get a table.) One mojito, and insufficient rehydration, was enough for me to wake up feeling crummy. Sigh.
Well, mojitos and a lot of mixed drinks are dangerous because, some people think, sugar content is related to hangover strength. Mojitos have straight sugar in them, but other drinks have sweet liqueurs in them — Triple Sec is in just about everything, to say nothing of the liqueurs that make drinks dark blue or green or red or purple (light colors are generally made by newer, less sweet liqueurs). That may be one reason alcoholics, who tend to prefer things like martinis and scotch and soda and bourbon, neat, get fewer hangovers than casual drinkers.
Or it could all be bunkum
i never get hangovers and i drink everything. that must make me an alcoholic.
woo! i rule!
Well, I’m sure that sugar content contributes to dehydration, which is one of the major factors in hangover.
Personally, I prefer a turbinado or brown sugar in my mojito — I like the cane/molasses flavor. It goes well with the rum. (It’s possible this makes me a mojito heretic, but so be it. At least I still use real lime juice, not limeade…)