# Share your spoonfull of sugar

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 29, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-spoonfull-of-sugar/397912 "2007-03-29T00:08:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-spoonfull-of-sugar/397912/1 "2007-03-29T00:08:36Z")

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One helluva rhinovirus is currently having its way with me. I’m miserable, and I have a red-eye flight to catch in about 24 hours.

I’ve been dutifully taking my airborne since the first twinge was felt in my throat (my tonsils are usually the first to go) but I don’t really care for the taste of putting the tablets in water.

In a moment of desperation, I concocted a very pleasant-tasting cocktail. One part orange juice, one part soy milk, and one airborne tablet. Let it fizz and completely disolve and then stir vigorously. It isn’t as tasty as an Orange Julius, but it is pretty tasty.

Another thing Mrs. WeHaveCookies and I discovered last summer, while trying to make ourselves consume a dose of [Supergreen](http://shop.sixwise.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=101) at least once a day, was that the ONLY way to make this scraped-from-your-neighbor’s-lawn-mower vileness palatable is to mix it with 2/3 of a small bottle of Odwalla Limeaid, and to drink it as fast as is humanly possible. And remember not to burp…ever…or it just comes back to haunt you.

So what are some of your tricks for gagging down things nasty yet medicinal/healhty?

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-spoonfull-of-sugar/397912/2 "2007-03-29T07:43:23Z")

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[QUOTE=ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]  
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So what are some of your tricks for gagging down things nasty yet medicinal/healhty?  
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Some say nasty medicine tastes better with cookies - now if only you knew someone who had cookies…  
When I was a kid and we had to take an aspirin, my mother would put the aspirin on a tablespoon, add a drop of water and dissolve it, then put some honey on it. Made it a lot easier to swallow, but to this day whenever I have honey I somehow feel I am taking medicine.

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-spoonfull-of-sugar/397912/3 "2007-03-29T09:20:11Z")

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[QUOTE=ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]  
One helluva rhinovirus is currently having its way with me.  
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It could be worse - it could be one helluva rhino! :eek:

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**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-spoonfull-of-sugar/397912/4 "2007-03-29T09:28:35Z")

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Sucking on a chunk of ice will numb your taste buds and let you choke down quite a bit that you wouldn’t be able to normally.

And then there’s Chinese medicine, where this is counterproductive. Chinese medicine works by tasting so incredibly vile that the body heals itself just to avoid getting dosed again.