# Buckley's Mixture **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 28, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buckleys-mixture/52140 "2001-01-28T17:43:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buckleys-mixture/52140/1 "2001-01-28T17:43:10Z")
It _doesn’t_ taste awful. Honest. I don’t care what Frank Buckley says. I like the taste. Sure, it’s strong, but it’s kinda nice going down. And it _does_ work. I had to take some last night to relieve a tickle in my throat. It put me in mind of one time about 10 years ago, on my floor in a university dorm, where we had a particularly nasty cold going round. I doled out doses of Buckley’s to a bunch of the guys, and was persona non grata for about a week. (These self-same guys could drink just about any vile alcoholic concoction ever known, and probably invented a few.) Am I that unusual? Buckley’s fans, put up your hands! ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buckleys-mixture/52140/2 "2001-01-28T17:47:53Z")
No fan here. I think the stuff tastes the way I imagined Pine Sol would taste. I tried it once, and no amount of coaxing would get me to try it a second time. I couldn’t even swallow it. It hit my tongue, and back out it came. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buckleys-mixture/52140/3 "2001-01-28T19:58:17Z")
Buckley’s Mixture makes me gag. Pure and simple. I’ve tried it three or four times, basically with the same results. As far as effectiveness is concerned, I found it to be no more and no less efficient than your average cough syrup. Definitely less efficient than codeine syrup (for which you have to get a prescription from your doctor, however). BTW, Buckley recently introduced a ‘children’s formula’ which, strangely enough, they say tastes good. So it would seem that they CAN make a product that doesn’t taste like cramp and still be effective. So why don’t they?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buckleys-mixture/52140/4 "2001-01-28T20:02:34Z")
Maybe it’s the active ingredient which tastes bad. In a kid’s version, there’d be less, hence better taste. Just a WAG 🙂 I’ve never tried it, but I can usually swallow most anything (whiskey tastes like rubbing alchohol, but Crown Royal at least goes down really smooth). ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2001, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buckleys-mixture/52140/5 "2001-01-28T20:07:44Z")
What I meant to say is ‘taste like crap’, not ‘taste like cramp’; maybe it can give you cramps, but it definitely tastes like crap:D. ---
**Author:** ![fenrir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/43a26b/32.png) [@fenrir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fenrir)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buckleys-mixture/52140/6 "2001-01-29T02:49:10Z")
I picked some of this up a few years ago in Canada before it was avalible here.It’s still in my medicine cabinet with just 1 serving missing.Has to be on my top 10 list of the worst things i’ve ever tasted.