I regularly buy Omeprazole over the counter at Walgreens and Safeway here in Colorado. No Rx or pharmacist is involved—it’s on the shelf, like cough drops. I’m sure that it can also be prescribed, but it’s available non-prescription.
The product at the Walgreens web site: http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/walgreens-omeprazole-acid-reducer-tablets/ID=prod3895075-product
I discovered homemade alka selzer by accident while hung over one morning…(add as little water before combining lemon juice and baking soda). :rolleyes:
The prison commercial is one of my all time favorites
“Plop” is the sound of something dropping into liquid and making a small splash. “Plink” is the sound of something dropping into container when it makes a high-pitched metallic sound, such as a coin into a drinking glass.
“Plop” can also mean to drop or fall inelegantly: “He was tired and just plopped [himself] onto the sofa.”
“Plink” can also mean shooting small-caliber arms at targets such as bottles or tin cans.
Perhaps that’s regional. I’ve never run into it.
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1972 CLIO Hall of Fame commercial:
[/QUOTE]Remade with Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts, aka Frank and Marie Barone.
The aspirin in Alka-Seltzer was the recommended form if aspirin upset your stomach. Because it was dissolved, it left the stomach faster, so it didn’t have time to cause problems. Once Tylenol came along, though, that was no longer a selling point.
That was indeed the justification. Sadly, that’s not how aspirin works to cause stomach irritation. As long as it ends up in the bloodstream, it can cause gastritis via prostaglandin inhibition. And its ability to make platelets less sticky can promote bleeding from said gastritis.
Take a look at this video. The action begins about 6:30.
I used to take alka seltzer for hangovers. Never had any trouble finding it. It came in a box. I know I’ve seen them in the past few months, too.
I have a very clear memory the jingle went, “Plop. Plop. Fizz. Fizz. Oh what a relief it is.”
Unfortunately, I carried that tune in my head for many, many years.
Seems like they broadcast that jingle for at least 4 or 5 years around 1962 or so.
The fizzing is the loudest and most excruciating sound in your life after a particularly indulgent night on the town.
Thread jack
I find without antacids to hand a bit of raw ginger (about the size of a penny) chewed slightly and swallowed does a very good job with stomach acid. Low sodium too.
/Thread jack
It looks like Alka Seltzer “Plus” is for colds and Alka Seltzer is for upset stomachs. I love the original. It’s great for when you need some quick relief. Tastes a heck of a lot better than baking soda.
Alka Seltzer disappearing? When I was a kid, the old farts always called it “Bromo Seltzer”, even though that brand hadn’t been on store shelves in decades.
When I was a kid, there were tablets like Alka-Seltzer sold-only they were for instant soft drinks". You could get them in cola, root beer, orange soda etc. Are they still made?
Those were called Fizzies, and yes they are still around. You can buy them at amazon
Fizzies are the basis of an expression used by me and my late husband to describe a particularly boring event, to wit, “It’s a Happy Fizzies Party.” :dubious:
If you took a mouthful of water and then put a Fizzie in your mouth, you WOULD have a Happy Fizzies party in there.
Fizziesare still available.
“What’s worse than a fire in a match factory?”
“A flood in a Fizzies factory.”
Wow, if they can’t wait the whole less than a minute it takes for AS to dissolve, we’ve truly ruined an entire generation.
As for fizzies, they were gone for a while, since the original formula had cyclomates which got banned. I only remember them from when they brought them back in the 90’s using nutrasweet.
I was just thinking about that one the other day. It was one of the greatest commercials of all time. Very close to the Apple 1984 commercial, for greatness.