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Published 1999
It may come as a surprise that khashi, Georgia’s best-loved soup, is made from tripe. At one time the Georgian nobility disdained this soup, considering it fit only for peasants. But soon they noticed that the peasants, who regularly ate khashi upon rising, never suffered the effects of hangovers. The nobility began to eat khashi, too, and now the soup is a Georgian institution. Laboratory tests have shown that the collagen in tripe does indeed counteract the effects of