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A prairie oyster (sometimes also prairie cocktail) is a traditional beverage consisting of a raw egg (often yolk alone), Worcestershire sauce, vinegar and/or hot sauce, table salt, and ground black pepper. Tomato juice is sometimes added, reminiscent of a Bloody Mary. The egg is broken into a glass so as not to break the yolk. The mixture is quickly swallowed. The unbroken yolk causes the drink to bear a texture similar to that of an oyster. The concoction has been referred to as a traditional cure for hangovers, and has appeared in media for decades.
Supposed hangover remedy properties[edit]
Though considered a traditional hangover remedy, the prairie oyster has not been scientifically proven to treat hangover symptoms. Headache experts say that a prairie oyster will not work as a remedy for a hangover.[1]
It has been suggested that the raw egg in a prairie oyster may alleviate the symptoms of a hangover since eggs contain cysteine, an amino acid which helps the body break down acetaldehyde, a by-product of processing alcohol.[2][3] However, there is no reliable evidence showing that consuming foods with this amino acid relieves hangover symptoms.[4] Furthermore, research shows that amino acids in raw eggs are less digestible than amino acids in cooked eggs.[5]
It has also been suggested that a prairie oyster may seem to relieve hangover symptoms by acting as a distraction and a placebo.[6]
In popular culture[edit]
The prairie oyster has appeared in popular media since the early 20th century. Notable appearances include:
- In P. G. Wodehouse's 1916 short story 'Jeeves Takes Charge', Jeeves cures Bertie Wooster's hangover with his version of a prairie oyster.[7] The drink is not named in the story but it fits the description of a prairie oyster. As Jeeves says, 'It is a little preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcester Sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its bite.'[8] Jeeves also serves this hangover cure in other stories. It is very effective, and Bertie suspects that there is more to the drink than the ingredients mentioned by Jeeves.[9]
- In the 1931 film The Last Flight, three of the main characters order a prairie oyster after a night of heavy drinking.
- In the 1934 George Orwell novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Ravelston prepares Gordon a prairie oyster in jail.
- In 1935, Barbary Coast saw Edward G. Robinson offer Miriam Hopkins a prairie oyster on New Year's Day.
- In the 1936 Frank Capra film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Longfellow Deeds is offered a prairie oyster after a night on the town.
- In the 1937 film A Star is Born, Norman Maine (Fredric March) has a prairie oyster at the bar to cure his hangover when he spies Vicky Lester (Janet Gaynor) and begins a conversation.
- Goodbye to Berlin, the 1939 novel by Christopher Isherwood mentions prairie oysters several times, where Sally and Chris drink them in Sally's room. Similar scenes also occur in Cabaret, the 1966 musical; as well as in the 1972 film, in which Sally Bowles regularly makes prairie oysters, remarking that they 'work instantly, even on the most sinister hangovers.'
- The Palm Beach Story, the 1942 screwball comedy directed by Preston Sturges, shows Gerry Jeffers ordering a prairie oyster in a train dining car.
- In the 1950 Patricia Highsmith novel Strangers on a Train, Charles Anthony Bruno has a prairie oyster to cure his hangover and ready himself to murder Miriam, the wife of a man he met on the train.
- In the 1959 film The Nun's Story, Gaby (Audrey Hepburn) is given the drink to aid her in recovery from suspected tuberculosis.
- In the 1959 film Pillow Talk, the main female character's maid, Alma, starts every day, hungover, with a drink of tomato juice, Tabasco and Worcester sauce. Towards the end of the film, the main male character's best friend makes him a drink to cure his Hangover with 'a lot of olive oil in it and two raw eggs', tomato juice, Tabasco and Worcester sauce.
- In Thunderball, the 1961 novel by Ian Fleming, prior to spending a fortnight at Shrublands ('Gateway to Health'), James Bond states that 'there wasn't a week went by but that on at least one day I couldn't eat anything for breakfast but a couple of aspirins and a prairie oyster'.
- In Season 2, episode 17 'The Break-Up, Part 2' (1976), of the television show The Jeffersons, Tom Willis's (Franklin Cover) daughter Jenny (Berlinda Tolbert) makes a prairie oyster to help her dad with his hangover.
- In a 1985 episode of Number 73 (series 5, episode 21), a Saturday morning children's television show aired in the UK, Neil and Harry each drink a prairie oyster to ward off a hangover resulting purportedly caused by staying out all night drinking fizzy orange juice.
- In the 1988 film Heathers, Veronica Sawyer makes Heather Chandler a prairie oyster in an attempt to apologize for an incident at a party the previous night, but it is soon replaced with a glass of liquid drain cleaner, killing Heather Chandler.
- In the 1990 film Back to the Future Part III, Marty gives (egg-free) 'wake-up juice' into Doc to wake him up after he instantly passes out from a shot of whiskey in the Old West.
- In the 1993 film Addams Family Values, Gomez Addams makes a Prairie Oyster and shakes it up in a bottle to give to his infant son after a night of celebrating Fester's wedding to Debbie.
- In a 1998 episode of the animeCowboy Bebop, the protagonist Spike Spiegel orders a prairie oyster to get over a hangover, although he adds Boofeater (a reference to the London Dry Gin Beefeater) to the cocktail.
- In Season 1, episode 14 'The Harriet Dinner, Part II' (2007) of the television show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Jack Rudolph suggests that Kim Tao is given a prairie oyster after drinking too much tequila.
- In the 2010 play Heathers: The Musical by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe, one of the titular characters, Heather Chandler, requests a prairie oyster, to alleviate the hungover feeling after the party scene.
- In the 2011 video game Catherine, the drink is referenced in one of the many cocktail trivia segments that can occur in the bar.
- In the 2013 television series Spies of Warsaw episode 3, Lady Angela Hope brings a Prairie Oyster to Jean-Francois Mercier in bed to help with his hangover.
- In the American TV show Shameless, the character Mickey is seen preparing one in 'The Alibi'. (Season 4, Episode 1)
- In the Netflix series Russian Doll, the main character Nadia is seen making a prairie oyster to help with a hangover in the episode 'The Great Escape' (Season 1, Episode 2).
- In the Netflix series The Good Cop, Belinda Mannix makes one for Tony Caruso Sr to help with his hangover in the episode 'What is the Supermodel's Secret?' (Season 1, Episode 2).
- In the Norwegian series Mammon (season 2, episode 5, min. 45), the new prime minister makes himself a prairie oyster with tomato juice after a long day.
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- Amber Moon, a similar drink containing alcohol
References[edit]
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- ^Stevens, Ashlie (March 7, 2016). 'The Prairie Oyster: A Survey of 100 Years in Pop Culture'. Eater. Retrieved May 26, 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^'Hangover cure #4: The Prairie Oyster'. Now Toronto. November 17, 2012. Retrieved May 26, 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Greenwood, Veronique (December 31, 2018). 'No, you can't eat your way out of a hangover'. BBC Future. BBC. Retrieved May 26, 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Palsdottir, Hrefna (July 23, 2016). 'Is Eating Raw Eggs Safe and Healthy?'. Healthline. Retrieved May 26, 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Robson, David (December 15, 2015). 'What's the secret to dodging hangovers?'. BBC Future. BBC. Retrieved May 26, 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Cawthorne, Nigel (2013). A Brief Guide to Jeeves and Wooster. London: Constable & Robinson. p. 47. ISBN978-1-78033-824-8.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Wodehouse, P. G. (2008) [1925]. 'Jeeves Takes Charge'. Come On, Jeeves (Reprinted ed.). Arrow Books. p. 13. ISBN9780099513698.
- ^Wodehouse, P. G. (2008) [1934]. 'Chapter 5'. Right Ho, Jeeves (Reprinted ed.). Arrow Books. p. 48. ISBN9780099513742. Bertie narrates: 'I have had occasion, I fancy, to speak before now of these pick-me-ups of Jeeves's [..] What they consist of, I couldn't tell you. He says some kind of sauce, the yolk of a raw egg and a dash of red pepper, but nothing will convince me that the thing doesn't go much deeper than that.'
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