Mexican Food works for me.
A visit to the taco truck, or a plate of enchiladas from a sit-down joint.

A hangover is caused by dehydration, which is a natural result of your kidneys working overtime to flush poison out of your system. The best prevention for a hangover is to drink lots of non-alcoholic fluid with your poison, and keep drinking it for several hours after you quit imbibing the poison.

Preventative medication from a southerner.....1 goody powder before you start, one goody powder when you finish drinking. But if the room's spinning when you go to bed, head for the bathroom....

you won't get a hangover if you never stop drinking.

my solution:

2 Dramamine™
4 Motrin™
1 can Diet Coke
2-300 gallons of water
No kids within a 4-mile radius
Sleep

First, Naval Aviators and many MD's swear by a few breaths of Oxygen to cure the morning after blues.
Some friends have said a quick dunking in ocean water cures any hangover (especially on New Years day in the Northeast).
The alka seltzer cure seems very drastic as the sound of the fizz can kill supposedly.
A long time favorite of many is a raw egg ten drops of tobasco sauce, some worchestershire suace, a teaspoon of cayene pepper blendeed and druk down quickly.
Enjoy the hangover you bought it the night before.

Happy New Year

Corn tortillas and a big bowl of menudo. Of course, you'll also want to wash it down with a couple cold cerveza's. Now you're back to where you started.

I've known people that swear by pounding down at least two cans of Sprite or 7-Up before going to bed. Supposedly to re-hydrate plus give a sugar hit because supposedly one component of a hangover is that your blood sugar levels are screwed up.

Or you could just practice between now and New Years Eve to build up a tolerence. It probably would work better if you'd started back in June though.

I tend to have to stop drinking before I get too drunk because I get so hungry.

Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way; not for him the slow, gracious wandering from the halls of sleep, but a summary, forcible ejection. He lay sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider crab on the tarry shingle of the morning. The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.

-- Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim.

I always pound a big glass of H2O and a can of Coke before bed, and that usually does the trick.

For a really bad hangover the first thing to do is force yourself to do a self-search on Free Republic. Might as well get it over with rather than stew for hours over what you might have said.

Toby's cheesesteak (double hot sauce, double cheese) and a thick shake.

As for an ounce of prevention, take some vitamin B-complex before you begin imbibing.

What's a "goody powder?"

I know that feeling.

You correct E. Pluri

I swear by the following hangover prevention measures:

1. Superhydrate the night before, right before bed (I whack back about 2 liters of water). If you don't get up to go to the bathroom during the night it's further evidence that you narrowly evaded death.

2. Take two of the new anti-hangover Alka Seltzer upon waking (they are proof of a benevolent God)

3. When ambulatory, consume 1 each can of Corned beef hash (brand unimportant, but avoid dogfood) and quart of orange juice

4. Finish with a midday viewing of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" or something of equal cereberal challenge

The best thing to do for a hangover is to keep busy and make money at the same time.

Through years of expert research I've found the following to be effective:

Before you go to sleep:

Drink lots of water/soda (no caffeine)
Stay awake (if you can) at least 1-2 hours after your last drink.
Vitamin B complex (a must!)
Eat something with proteins and carbohydrates. (Pizza delivery is perfect: open all night and you don't have to drive)
If you get the spins or think you're going to be sick, don't fight it. You'll feel much, much better all night and especially the next day if you puke. Most of what comes up will be stomach acid and undigested alcohol. You don't want that in you.

Next day:

Wake up late
Eat something greasy like a cheeseburger.
Drink lots of Water.

Shouldn't take pain relief for a hangover. Asprin, Acetominophen, and Ibuprofen supposedly cause liver damage in heavy drinkers. That's what the MD's say. Of course, they all swore up and down that AIDS would spread to heteros, that fiber would lower your cholesteral(sp), etc.

So maybe you should take that asperin anyway, What do the MD's know?