Whatever you do, never drink a vodka-Spa red

You can do an infinite number of things in the pub: kiss, hang over the bar, dance with the bartender, sip from a bottle with your girlfriends – hey, why not. But don't do one thing, and that is drink vodka with Spa red. Never.

We mean it, because this drink tastes like nothing, is secretly not very cheap, and it gets you very, very drunk without you realizing it. You might think it’s all manageable in that crowded pub, but unfortunately. It’s the sneaky one among cocktails. The spy among drinks. The traitor in your glass. You never expect it, but it takes you down. And the next day you are therefore even sicker. And broke.

A glass of vodka contains about 86 calories. Add some Spa red and a slice of lemon and you have a nice drink that makes your hips rejoice. Because: very good for the figure. For comparison: a beer quickly contains 110 calories. That makes quite a difference. But yes, beer does fill you up and then at some point you realize you’ve had enough and are tipsy. With vodka and water: not. Your poor head the next morning. Those brains thought they were enjoying nice water with lemon, because, well, vodka simply has no taste, but the painful truth is that there can be between 37 and as much as 70 percent alcohol in that transparent danger. In most variants, there is between 40 and 45 percent alcohol. Good morning.

By the way, it varies per person how much you suffer from a severe hangover. On average, a woman is hungover after drinking between three to five drinks, a man only after five or six drinks. The golden tip is mainly to eat something before you start drinking, alcohol stays in your stomach a bit longer this way, which means it gets broken down a bit more before it enters your blood. You might still have something left from your weekend. Maybe then, if you drink beer.