Well it's flu and cold season and living in Michigan now I don't have to suffer the agonies of the traditional Canadian flu/cold/sore throat remedy.....BUCKLEY'S MIXTURE!!! *shudder, shudder, gag, shudder, gasp*

For those Canadians of the forum that got grabbed by their parents as kids and had Buckley's Mixture poured down your throat...my deepest condolences. For those of us brave enough to take it willingly as adults...I saulute you! LOL The stuff is truly gawd awful....sort of a wierd greyish color, the consistency of stuff you can't even bare to think about and tastes something like sucking on a pine tree. Takes your breath away, burns like the fires of hell but for some unknown reason the stuff works.

My theory has always been that your body is so afraid you'll pour even more of this stuff down your throat that it immediately works to get better!

Here's a quote from the son of the man who invented Buckley's Mixture and also their website. You have got to check out the photo's of people's faces after they swallow Buckley's down.

"I have recurring nightmares in which someone gives me a taste of my own medicine. My father developed it back in 1919 when people expected medicine to taste like, well, like medicine. Frank Buckley Toronto, Ontario"

http://www.buckleys.com/ (see the Your Pictures section..it's a hoot!)

Only in Canada would we have a company that actually uses the motto "It Tastes Awful. And it Works" LOL They used to have a TV ad where the actor had a spoonful of Buckley's then screamed! Too funny!


~~Jo~~