# Does anyone actually like 'Pepto-Bismol'? (Ick) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 15, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368 "2004-10-15T13:47:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/21 "2004-10-15T17:27:31Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > I’ve completely lost _my_ appetite. > > By the way, it’s my belief that Necco Wafers are just the little dried bits that collect in Pepto Bismol caps. I’m laughing so hard now I’m glad no one’s in the room. The yellow Necco wafers are the best, although the chocolate ones are pretty good. I also like Lik-m-sticks, or whatever they are called! I could eat the candy sticks all by themselves. And I love turning my tongue purple from the powder! Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/22 "2004-10-15T17:41:34Z")
Yeah, Pepto Bismol is great. You haven’t lived until you you’ve had Lucky Charms with Pepto Bismol poured over them! 😃 Who needs a spoon; I just drink it straight out of the bottle. I also put it in the refridgerator; when I drink it cold, the ‘coldness’ somehow makes my heartburn feel a little better 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/23 "2004-10-15T17:54:19Z")
Mmmm, pink liquid wintergreen bubblegum. I haven’t pepto in years. I actually like wintergreen Altoids but after a few I’m reminded that the scent is exactly the same as the toilet bowl cleaner we use. A tin lasts me a long time that way. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/24 "2004-10-15T18:14:18Z")
I used to love the taste when I was a kid. Now I can barely get it down. The tablets are alright though. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/25 "2004-10-15T18:20:23Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > I’m dry heaving slightly as I type this. Pepto and Schnapps **Hal**? ☹ say it isn’t so. I say that it is so, and it is also so yummy. Sorry about the dry heaves. You’re stomach ok? I can give you something for that, if you like. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/26 "2004-10-15T18:38:02Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > I say that it is so, and it is also so yummy. > > Sorry about the dry heaves. You’re stomach ok? I can give you something for that, if you like. 🙂 _Blahhgg_ No! ☹ For the love of God Man! I’d rather a shot of Jägermeister and grapefruit juice. Blahgg ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/27 "2004-10-15T18:43:04Z")
Jager and grapefruit juice sounds pretty good, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/28 "2004-10-15T18:50:54Z")
I kinda like Pepto. I also like black licorice, nyquil, circus peanuts, and necco wafers. But I ain’t eatin’ no candy corn. That stuff’s the devil’s candy. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/29 "2004-10-15T18:56:43Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > _Blahhgg_ No! ☹ For the love of God Man! I’d rather a shot of Jägermeister and grapefruit juice. Blahgg Oh, not a problem…you can substitute Jäger for the schnapps. That tastes quite good as well. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/30 "2004-10-15T18:57:29Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > I kinda like Pepto. I also like black licorice, nyquil, circus peanuts, and necco wafers. But I ain’t eatin’ no candy corn. That stuff’s the devil’s candy. How 'bout Dayquil? (from someone who has been chugging Day/Nyquil all week due to an annoying cold). I thought Nyquil was bad until I sampled Dayquil. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/31 "2004-10-15T20:55:34Z")
> [@Elysian](#): > > I also really liked the taste of Dimetapp when I was little two. The grape kind. I would probably like it now, too. I wish more medicines came in that delightful flavor. > > 😃 One of my first memories is of ODing on Dimetapp when I was three or so. I started bouncing on my bed singing “I LOVE DIMETAPP!” My mom freaked out and called poison control or something, but I was fine. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/32 "2004-10-15T20:59:36Z")
I like the taste of Pepto okay–not enough to swig it from the bottle for no good reason, but enough that when I need it, it tastes kinda good. Then, I’m weird: I absolutely _adore_ the taste of the original gray-white chalky Kaopectate. When my mom gave it to me as a kid I considered it a treat. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/33 "2004-10-15T21:11:18Z")
When I was a kid, there was an ice-cream shop near our house that sold “Teaberry” flavored ice cream (I guess it was supposed to taste like Teaberry chewing gum). A friend who worked there told us that apparently the stuff tasted enough like Pepto that one customer came and bought a Teaberry milkshake so he could smuggle some Pepto into a reluctant child. I tasted the ice cream. Didn’t much care for it but it wasn’t completely vile. I imagine that same taste in a chalky room-temp liquid would be no treat. No comment on the advisability of feeding fatty dairy products on a child who had a condition warranting the use of Pepto :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/34 "2004-10-15T21:50:58Z")
[There are a few fellas in Cleveland who can’t stand the stuff right about now.](http://www.bengals.com/press/news.asp?iCurPage=0&news_id=2464) ---
**Author:** ![mamakat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@mamakat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamakat)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/35 "2004-10-16T03:12:10Z")
yummy, yummy, yummy, love the stuff. I always go through all the Valentine’s conversation hearts because the white ones taste EXACTLY like it. Deeeee-licious! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/36 "2004-10-16T13:04:22Z")
Pepto tastes fine. But some of you in this thread are downright strange. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/37 "2004-10-16T14:23:27Z")
You beat me to it, **Hal**. I was wondering what mixed well with Pepto, and Ouzo came to mind. Ouzo and Kaopectate probably would work, too. Get sh_t-faced when you have the sh_ts. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/38 "2004-10-16T15:21:28Z")
There’s a gumball machine where I work that has pink gumballs that taste exactly like pepto-bismol. Most of my co-workers hate them, but I absolutely love them. I feel disappointed when I get some other flavor out of the machine. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/39 "2004-10-16T17:46:54Z")
Hey, don’d diss our bismuth subsalycilate – it’s comfort medicine! Besides that wintergreen/anise flavoring can be pleasing in moderate amounts. Now, Gaviscon tablets – that’s a snack! ---
**Author:** ![Lips\_Obsession](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@Lips\_Obsession](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lips_Obsession)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368/40 "2004-10-17T02:17:23Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > I’ve completely lost _my_ appetite. > > By the way, it’s my belief that Necco Wafers are just the little dried bits that collect in Pepto Bismol caps. I don’t _LOVE_ the taste of Pepto, but I certainly don’t mind it. I have to agree about Necco tasting like Pepto. Same thing with Valentine Conversation Hearts. Of course, I love those things… but they have to be “fresh” (not so "dry) and only Brachs are the good ones… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-like-pepto-bismol-ick/269368.md?page=3)