Miscellany

[Qingdai]

Portland Oregon is rife with a mint type lozenge called Golden Lotus, or if you're feeling fancy, something elderberry related.

[Qingdai]

Honey Lemon hot water and whisky is a hot toddy and also very common.

East or west, east or west.

[Miisa]

I usually stick with Strepsils, but recently tried some other brand as a "candy". Discovered if "fixes" a sore throat by making everything, including your mouth, numb.

[JoeP]

Does it have a zinc compound in the ingredients list? I recall something like that from a product that had a similar numbing effect.

[ceptimus]

We used to have these in various flavours: lemon, cherry, honey, ...



Later, the dominant name on the packaging was 'Halls', and now they're much less often seen, have changed shape to round, are sugar free (yuck), and come in boxes rather than a square tube wrapper.

It's a shame that the confectionery of our youth keeps changing names and/or disappearing completely.

[Miisa]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Does it have a zinc compound in the ingredients list? I recall something like that from a product that had a similar numbing effect.

I don't think so, no zinc mentioned, but does have benzydamine hydrochloride which for all I know might be zinc, or mercury, or arsenic under a new trendier name...

[viscousmemories]

Hot: Honey and Lemon
Cold: Ginger Ale (in Michigan anyway!)

[Miisa]

Ooh, cold is it's whole other can of worms!
My mother, like many other Finnish mothers, was absolutely convinced that yellow Jaffa (a local orange soda) was the way to treat the upset stomachs of children. I myself have broadened it to include most sodas.

[Ensign Steve]

Honey and lemon would be my first go-to, but if you want something that feels like medicine, menthol is also popular.

[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by Miisa

I usually stick with Strepsils, but recently tried some other brand as a "candy". Discovered if "fixes" a sore throat by making everything, including your mouth, numb.

Originally Posted by JoeP

Does it have a zinc compound in the ingredients list? I recall something like that from a product that had a similar numbing effect.

I don't know if they still do, but Sucrets lozenges used to have Lidocaine in them, like literally the numbing agent from the dentist.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Miisa

Ooh, cold is it's whole other can of worms!

[Ymir's blood]

Originally Posted by Miisa

I just have to ask, as it is killing me after a year or two of wondering:

If an American is under the weather with a cold or similar, and needs a hot drink or a lozenge, what flavour will it tend to be? Like, what is the generic American taste of a pick-me-up when sick?

Coffee with Jack Daniels in it.

[Miisa]

Originally Posted by Ymir's blood

Coffee with Jack Daniels in it.

Ah, nostalgic childhood sick days.

[Sock Puppet]

My Mom swore by 7-Up for anything tummy-related, and it does sort of work. Got nothing for colds other than the usual honey & lemon, although once or twice, the older Quebecois lady next door gave me a wonderful remedy without telling my teetotaling mom. Probably involved brandy, I'll never know for sure, but it knocked me out and fixed me right up.

[curses]

Ymir will hate me for this but just about every cold medicine I had growing up was "cherry" flavored. Basically just red with a bit of citric acid in it.

Now it's honey and lemon. I live for Ricola for coughs though, so whatever flavor that is. I still go for the cherry stuff sometimes too in over the counter medicine.

[curses]

[Ymir's blood]

Death to Cherry!

[JoeP]

Apropos of nothing.

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[Miisa]

My tapatalk app insists freethought-forum is not a thing that exists.

[JoeP]

Perhaps Tapatalk is a pain? One that keeps changing the ways in which it's a pain?

[JoeP]

Hello from Tapatalk.

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[JoeP]

Example pain: I had definitely removed that "using Tapatalk" signature.

[Ymir's blood]

In Soviet Russia, doesn't link to Tapatalk.

[Limoncello]

So this is random.

The Mor-man works at a funeral home and is at gravesides on the reg.

Yesterday was -18C the high was -12C and snowy, windy conditions. So somewhere in between those temps, at the graveside, the family released 2 dozen white doves into the sky.

The Mor-man did not see that coming - he wondered what the boxes with the air holes were for. When they went up he was expecting them to freeze instantly and come down *thud, thud, thud* Dove-sicles

They all disappeared though, and later he found out they return to their place, their home, their--- I dunno. But they come back to the company that supplies them and live to be released another day.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]