# What do you like when you're ill?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 10, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-when-youre-ill/259267 "2004-08-10T21:48:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-when-youre-ill/259267/41 "2004-08-13T16:03:02Z")

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> [@burundi](#):
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> Homemade tapioca pudding. It’s pure comfort. Sometimes, even if I’m not sick, I’ll ask my sweetie to make it if I’ve had a particularly horrible day.

Don’t I get a say in this? :dubious:

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-when-youre-ill/259267/42 "2004-08-14T05:38:05Z")

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Lime Koolade with strips of balogna floating on top.

I’m just kidding. I heard that on M_A_S\*H.

This sounds awful, but I learned to love it as a kid and it does wonders for a sore throat: **hot jello**

There is also a chloroseptic spray which numbs the back of the throat which is great, but it doesn’t provide any nourishment.

I’m recovering from pneumonia, but it didn’t have a chance to get bad at all. We caught it early on some x-rays made for arthritis in my ribs. I love being old with its “one stop shopping” at the doctor’s office.

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**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-when-youre-ill/259267/43 "2004-08-14T05:45:03Z")

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When I’m sick with some tummy trouble, I like ginger ale and saltines. It took me years to drink ginger ale as a normal drink, since I’d only drunk it when I was sick since I was a child. When I have a cold or sinus troubles, as I often do, I like hot tea with honey, and chips with salsa, as long as the tissues are very close by. I also like the weird mintiness of liquid adult Tylenol.

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**Author:** ![Too\_Stoopid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Too\_Stoopid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Too_Stoopid)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-when-youre-ill/259267/44 "2004-08-14T06:02:34Z")

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I crave orange juice (with calcium and vitamin D added and some/light pulp, if you must know) and my Mommy always used to make me tomato or potato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches when I was sick. I seem to recall her making Egg Drop soup when my Daddy felt ill, which is odd because I don’t remember ever having any other asian dishes until well after I moved out. Oh well, Mom works in mysterious ways.

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