1) Vicks Formula 44
If you are old enough, you will recognize this bottle and be slowly backing away. A horrendous tasting concoction evidently designed to compete with Buckleys Cough Syrup, it was always in the kitchen cupboard till one of us sneaked in at night and flushed it down the toilet. It was probably not good for the septic tank.
After being given a dose they would say" Still coughing?" and , of course the answer was always "Oh God, NO."
Nobody knows what formulae 1 through 43 tasted like. But they were probably better, as it takes a real effort to get it this bad.
Yes, it was blacker than Coca-Cola, and had none of the sugar.
The bottle caps were not originally plastic, but some kind of bakelite or something that smelled like burned toast. If you really really hated your children, you'd serve it in the cap.
It was vile, burned all the way down, and you'd belch it for hours. I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that's the stuff the orcs gave to Merry and Pippin.
Original formula- now discontinued.
If you are old enough, you will recognize this bottle and be slowly backing away. A horrendous tasting concoction evidently designed to compete with Buckleys Cough Syrup, it was always in the kitchen cupboard till one of us sneaked in at night and flushed it down the toilet. It was probably not good for the septic tank.
After being given a dose they would say" Still coughing?" and , of course the answer was always "Oh God, NO."
Nobody knows what formulae 1 through 43 tasted like. But they were probably better, as it takes a real effort to get it this bad.
Yes, it was blacker than Coca-Cola, and had none of the sugar.
The bottle caps were not originally plastic, but some kind of bakelite or something that smelled like burned toast. If you really really hated your children, you'd serve it in the cap.
It was vile, burned all the way down, and you'd belch it for hours. I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that's the stuff the orcs gave to Merry and Pippin.
Original formula- now discontinued.
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