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Guess what, Mango?

What's that, Will?

All right, so you know how New Orleans is famous for being this kind of wild party town? I hope you've heard this before, right? Like sort of the Vegas of the Gulf Coast. I like that, the Vegas of the Gulf Coast. I actually just went to New Orleans for the first time this year and I loved it. But I was kind of thrown off by the fact that you can just drink on the streets there. It's kind of amazing. Well, actually, what's weird about that is technically it's only in the French quarter that you're allowed to do that, you know, as long as your drink isn't in a glass or a metal container. But, you know, if you go into other areas that are pretty close by, it's not a law that really gets enforced that often, as I think you probably saw when you were there. And this is a city where the

official motto is let the good times roll. Pop quiz for you. Do you know how to say that in French,

Mango? No, I do not. Okay, me either. I think it's something like Les E Le Bon Temp Roulet, maybe. I just

butchered it completely. Like, I can't even imagine for all those who speak French, and for even for those who don't, they just know that I butchered it. I feel like you were just saying, like, the line from that lady, Lady Marmalade song. Yeah. Or maybe from the Little Mermaid. One of those, I just stole a line. But, you know, it is kind of amazing that like New Orleans

is such a good Times town, but I'm curious. Are you just telling me that like New Orleans likes

to drink? Is that what this is all about? No, I'm pretty sure that drinking is, is common knowledge

at this point. It was, you know, the thing that caught my attention when we were talking to Gabe

about the research for this week was that it's really more like what the residents used to

treat the hangover that comes after all the drinking. And that's a big, steamy bowl of Yacquamane soup,

as, you know, also known as Old Sober. It's a soy sauce flavored broth with noodles, beef, chicken, shrimp,

hard-boiled eggs, and chopped onions. It actually sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Yeah.

And the amazing thing that sets this hangover cure apart from all the others is that it actually

works. So there were some researchers that looked into this from the American Chemical Society.

And what they found is that the traditional soup contains all the right ingredients to help the

body recover from a hangover.

So the hard-willed eggs have this compound that helps expel toxic substances.

The salty broth helps replenish sodium and potassium.

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