# Fizzies:  The anticipation fails to live up to the actual event

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fizzies-the-anticipation-fails-to-live-up-to-the-actual-event/449216>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 13, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fizzies-the-anticipation-fails-to-live-up-to-the-actual-event/449216 "2008-05-13T23:40:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fizzies-the-anticipation-fails-to-live-up-to-the-actual-event/449216/21 "2008-05-14T05:50:43Z")

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Apparently Fizzies aren’t much better [when they’re added to milk.](http://www.bad-candy.com/candies/fizzymilk/)

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fizzies-the-anticipation-fails-to-live-up-to-the-actual-event/449216/22 "2008-05-14T07:06:35Z")

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[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose]  
Now, that’s a blast from the past I could have lived without: I’m sitting here reflexively salivating with the sensory memory of sucking on Fizzies tablets 45 years ago. Putting them in water was for _babies_; real eight-year-olds licked them.  
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Preach it, **DDG**! That’s the real way to enjoy Fizzies!

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