# Good Tasting Medicine **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900 "2010-01-21T21:40:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![1GothMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/90ced4/32.png) [@1GothMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1GothMama)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/21 "2010-01-22T06:30:12Z")
For my most recent lung infection my doctor prescribed Vicodin cough syrup. (Codeine hasn’t worked for me in at least ten years, probably more.) It’s DELICIOUS, though I imagine if you didn’t have a sweet tooth you wouldn’t think so. It tastes like liquid cotton candy and vanilla. Seriously the best tasting medicine I’ve ever had. Plus it killed the cough. I mostly took it at night, though, since it made me kind of dopey. My 18 month old LOVES infant Tylenol. I don’t think she’s figured out it makes her feel better, but grape or cherry it doesn’t matter. She sees that bottle coming and she opens her mouth like a baby bird. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/22 "2010-01-22T08:04:17Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > Bubblegum flavored liquid amoxicillin. 😃 I took it as a kid, I don’t know if they still have that stuff around or not. I loved this as a kid too! Unfortunately I only got to take it once, it broke me out in hives. A few years ago I worked at a store that sold bubble gum ice cream that tasted like it, and it was awesome. Edited to add: Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. If you have one nearby and like amoxicillin, consider trying the bright blue bubblegum ice cream! ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Salt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@Bacon\_Salt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Salt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/23 "2010-01-22T08:49:15Z")
The pink amoxicillin which tasted nothing like bubblegum to me, but was still quite nom. Berry flavored Children’s Motrin. Had a refreshing tang. I, too, like the taste of Pepto. I thought I was the only one. But Og help you if I get the cherry flavored version. Ricola although it’s really a Swiss Jolly Rancher. The candy coating on Advil. It’s the one drug I don’t buy the generic version of because Mary Poppins was right. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/24 "2010-01-22T11:14:46Z")
Aspirin. I like chewing them (as mentioned in the other thread). Soluble aspirin is also good. As a kid, I used to like letting junior Dispirin melt on my tongue. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/25 "2010-01-22T14:06:38Z")
Grape Dimetapp liquid. I used to want it when I wasn’t even sick when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/26 "2010-01-22T14:13:09Z")
> [@Polly\_Glot](#): > > St Joseph’s aspirin for children had a subtle orange tang. Guess they can’t exactly sell aspirin for children any more though, huh. I don’t remember having any meds as a child, but my sister Diane at 2 years old came into the kitchen and told my mother that she would never be sick again-- she had eaten the whole bottle of orange-flavoured children’s aspirin. Immediate rush to the nearby hospital, stomach pump, the whole works. Those were the days before child-proof caps. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/27 "2010-01-22T14:15:37Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I like the sugar free Hall’s wild cherry cough drops. Oddly, I like them better than the kind with sugar in them. Usually I hate artificial sweeteners and will avoid products that are artificially sweetened. I came in to mention this very thing. Still like them too and anything else with a cherry flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/28 "2010-01-22T15:56:25Z")
OMG, orange Triaminic! How I miss that stuff. Best tasting medicine ever! ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/29 "2010-01-22T16:17:45Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I kind of like the regular flavor of Pepto-Bismol. I think that I associate the taste with relief, though, so it might not be the taste. That’s “pepsin” flavor, and it used to be popular enough to be a common hard candy and gum flavor. It’s still around in a few old-timey gum and lozenge brands. Have no idea how it’s related to the digestive enzyme, perhaps it’s due to the supposed stomach-calming effect of the flavor. Vaguely minty, though I disagree with comments I see online that equate the pepsin with wintergreen. Cherry Luden’s and Smith Brothers cough drops-- glorified candies both-- taste darn good. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/30 "2010-01-22T16:55:46Z")
> [@FrustratedIdiot](#): > > Ceclor tastes like strawberries. My Ceclor was grape flavored. Unfortunately, though, it gave me nasty hives. ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/31 "2010-01-22T19:17:39Z")
Calpol. Phenergan. Yum. Oh, and gripe water, which I still insist on having in the house though I’m very much an adult, have no children, and seldom suffer from digestive discomfort. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Real_Regency_Elf)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/32 "2010-01-22T19:49:33Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Someone mentioned bubblegum flavored Amoxocillian(sp?). That’s a good one, whenever my daughter is sick I always like to sneak a drop here and there (which I shouldn’t, ya know, since I’m allergic to penicillin). > But my favorite is Tussionex, it’s some sort of antihistamine and codeine cocktail which tastes wonderful and does an amazing job of getting rid of a cough. Tussionex actually has hydrocodone, not codeine. It might work as a cough suppressant for many, but I think in my case it just makes me not give a damn that I’m sick. But yeah, it’s tasty stuff thanks in no small part to the [high fructose corn syrup that’s in it as well](http://www.rxlist.com/tussionex-drug.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/33 "2010-01-23T00:11:33Z")
> [@The\_Real\_Regency\_Elf](#): > > Tussionex actually has hydrocodone, not codeine. It might work as a cough suppressant for many, but I think in my case it just makes me not give a damn that I’m sick. But yeah, it’s tasty stuff thanks in no small part to the [high fructose corn syrup that’s in it as well](http://www.rxlist.com/tussionex-drug.htm). I’ve tried to drink enough of it to get to the not give a damn stage, but it always makes me sick (and I’m NO stranger to lots o hydrocodone) and it makes me feel like a zombie the next day. I usually take about a teaspoon and it works wonders…and it tastes soooo good. (Like others have said about other things, I could drink the whole bottle if it wouldn’t kill me) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/34 "2010-01-23T02:33:14Z")
> [@Teacake](#): > > Phenergan. Yum. Yep, I loved me some Phenergan when I had my last bronchitis. It’s yellow, super-syrupy, mildly sedating and bizarrely sweet. Not only that, but _it made me not cough_. That ain’t easy to do - my bouts with Da Bronk tend to run weeks at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/35 "2010-01-23T04:55:50Z")
> [@MoodIndigo1](#): > > I don’t remember having any meds as a child, but my sister Diane at 2 years old came into the kitchen and told my mother that she would never be sick again-- she had eaten the whole bottle of orange-flavoured children’s aspirin. I did the same when I was some very young age ( less than four, certainly ) - loved the stuff. I recall vomiting it back up, but I no longer remember if it was induced or it just irritated my stomach enough it came back on its own. I still do like the taste of regular aspirin and take it as my mild painkiller of choice. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/36 "2010-01-23T08:18:14Z")
When I was a kid there was a children’s laxative, presumably castor oil based, called Castoria. A couple of times I faked constipation to get some, it tasted like birch beer. Not root beer, but specifically the increasingly difficult to find delight that is birch beer. But at that time I’d never had birch beer, so I didn’t know that I could have that flavor another way. I didn’t go for a third try when I realized what taking a laxative unnecessarily did to the system. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/37 "2010-01-24T08:06:58Z")
When I was a youngster in the 50s there was a cough medicine called “Cheracol” that had the most wonderful cherry flavor. I would sometimes go into the medicine cabinet and sneak a spoonful or two because it tasted so good. It’s a wonder more kids didn’t OD back then. Or maybe they did? When and why was the childproof cap introduced? ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900/38 "2010-01-24T10:55:22Z")
The elixer form of Dilantin comes in an orange sorbety type flavour. Smells wonderful and my patients usually take it no problems. I tasted a bit on a toothpick when I was in nursing school (my paediatiric rotation clinical supervisor made us taste test everything we gave kids but I passed on any sulfa-drug based thing… anaphylaxis ain’t my bag) and it even tastes good. But Im not looking to get seizure disorder to get more. In my own life I have to second the brand named Advil (and you can dry swallow with a hangover, or other headache + nausea conditions) and also Cherry Ludends. I can add my Maxalt wafers which I take sparingly and rarely for migranes. Vaugely vanilla-mint flavoured, disolves quickly almost no aftertaste… and generally works. However even with my drug plan they still work out to be about 5.00 each so they arent exactly snack-a-licious. ( I think without my drug plan they would have been around $130 for six.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-tasting-medicine/525900.md?page=1)