Part 2: Kókómjólk.
After years of research, your humble editors have concluded that Kókómjólk is probably the best nonprescription hangover cure with a picture of a striped, muscular cat on it.
What’s this Kókómjólk, you ask? Well, it’s Iceland’s premier chocolatey milky drink. In fact, it’s Iceland’s only chocolately milky drink.
Which is probably why, having nothing else to compare it to, we all insist it’s so special. Matter of national pride, we suppose.
But actually, it’s just like any other chocolatey milky drink, and, as you might imagine, if drunk on top of Viking lager and the compulsory first-night-out-in-Reykjavik Brennivín shots, it’ll just make you feel kind of, well, queasy.
We’re just sayin’. Not like that happened to us, or anything.
However, we totally recommend it as a cheap and freely available cure for those damned day-after hangovers we seem to be getting all the time. (Hmm, must be the mix of fresh air and northern lights.)
Kókómjólk: Available pretty much everywhere — much more widely than Alca-Seltzer, anyway — and it doesn’t cost a lot. (And no, in case you were wondering, we’re not getting any kickbacks for the promotional effort, but if the people who make it are reading this: you know where to send all those complementary boxes.)
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There is no ‘probably’ about it, Kókómjólk is definitely the best non-prescription hangover cure available the world over, ever.
Believe me, I’ve tried a few, but nothing quite compares to that chocolaty, milky – might as well have been prepared by my mamma – feeling that Kókómjólk gives you.
Makes me want to go out and get myself a screaming Brennivin hangover, just thinking about it!
Tell you what, Cathy: Meet us round the back of Room 21 and we’ll give you a whole box of Kókómjólk!
Oh noes! I have become addicted to Kókómjólk thanks to a friend of mine (Icelander). He said it was so good that I decided to try it and I fell into the trap. I finished my last Kókómjólk in the fridge today… and now I go and check this blog and it turns out you are talking about it. You evil people. You cannot post things like these when one runs out of Kókómjólk!
What will I do in Christmas without Kókómjólk and Skyr?
You are so right, Fernán. I think we should propose a programme for detoxification of former Erasmus-students in Iceland, because I will really be lost without those better things in life.
I will have lots of other stuff to choose from back home, but I just want my Skyr, my Kókómjólk, my súrmjólk, my pönnukökur, my kleinur, my Svali… my pylsur með öllu (and that would be including the raudkál and gurka they serve in Selfoss)!!
Oh well, guess I just will have to wait until May… From when were you flying the new cities? The 15th right?
Thank G-d I overdosed on Kókómjólk as a kid.
At times it was so bad that when I went with my mother to Mallorca for two weeks (as we Icelanders do during the summer), I insisted on bringing 3 boxes of Kókómjólk along. And my mother did.
A four year old junkie with a co-dependent mother. Aww.
Lol, I drink like four of those each day. I know that’s not exactly healthy.. but it’s sooooo good. It’s especially good when you’re tired after a hard day’s work. It always give me energey. + It’s really nice when the cold drink goes down your dry throat =]
I have never ever felt queasy after drinking it.. I’ve never heard that before. I don’t think that’s true lol.
Oh god… I spent three days in Iceland about three years ago and I can still taste that yummy, yummy Kókómjólk. I think I drank more of that in three days than I have drunk other chocolate milkshakes in my entire life.
It’s very good with kleinur.
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