Well...not exactly. It doesn't come out of a bottle, and it doesn't change flavors, but it DOES taste good.
The reason I discovered this is because I seem to have picked up a rather unpleasant cold somewhere. I haven't figured out yet whether this is the two-week cold that some people have gotten, or whether it's something different - but whatever it is, it can't seem to make up its mind. First it was a fever and sore throat, then the next day it was a stuffy nose, and now today it's a horribly runny nose and lots of sneezing. This has resulted (so far) in two pharmacy runs, to get different kinds of medicine.
Some things are similar over here, but others are different. For instance, they have Sudafed - but it's right out on the shelf, not a cardboard thing that you have to take up to the counter. Apart from that, all the brand names are completely different - and so are the flavors. Blackcurrant, lemon, or lemon and honey seem to be the popular ones here. Cough drops are much bigger, and taste worse - the ones I got were about the diameter of a quarter, and twice as thick - but they're VERY effective.
And they have something called LemSip, which is a cold medicine that comes as a powder and dissolves in hot water. (I was miserly and bought the generic version, not that it made a huge difference.) I was expecting it to taste pretty awful, but to my surprise, it's pretty much indistinguishable from hot lemonade. Mind you, I've never had hot lemonade, but I think this is what it would taste like if you heated it...
The reason I discovered this is because I seem to have picked up a rather unpleasant cold somewhere. I haven't figured out yet whether this is the two-week cold that some people have gotten, or whether it's something different - but whatever it is, it can't seem to make up its mind. First it was a fever and sore throat, then the next day it was a stuffy nose, and now today it's a horribly runny nose and lots of sneezing. This has resulted (so far) in two pharmacy runs, to get different kinds of medicine.
Some things are similar over here, but others are different. For instance, they have Sudafed - but it's right out on the shelf, not a cardboard thing that you have to take up to the counter. Apart from that, all the brand names are completely different - and so are the flavors. Blackcurrant, lemon, or lemon and honey seem to be the popular ones here. Cough drops are much bigger, and taste worse - the ones I got were about the diameter of a quarter, and twice as thick - but they're VERY effective.
And they have something called LemSip, which is a cold medicine that comes as a powder and dissolves in hot water. (I was miserly and bought the generic version, not that it made a huge difference.) I was expecting it to taste pretty awful, but to my surprise, it's pretty much indistinguishable from hot lemonade. Mind you, I've never had hot lemonade, but I think this is what it would taste like if you heated it...
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