Buckleys Original
 

Godsend, or cruel and unusual punishment? Your thoughts........

Re: Buckleys Original
 

It tastes bad but it works.




So they say. I've never tried it.

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I've never tried it either. Is it like Friar's Balsam (strange dark stuff that was so foul my father would give it to us on sugar lump) ?

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It's great! It's nowhere near as bad as the ads portray. Take a big ol swig!

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eeerrrrrrr What is it :confused:

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It is just like Friars Balsam...lol...I thought I was the only person on the planet who knew about that stuff. The singular and rather important difference is that Buckleys Original cannot be applied as a topical treatment. To do so might just launch a new Canadian into orbit, without the benefit of a space program. ;)

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It's a brand of cough medicine that's been around for ever. The TV advertising is similar to that used for Marmite. It has a hell of a kick but it's very, very effective.

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I remember looking up Friar's Balsam on the Internet, just to see if it still existed. I thought it was that stuff that my Mom used to put in a bowl of hot water and then you stuck a towel over your head, put your head over the bowl and breathed in the fumes - and that was supposed to clear your cold. I can't remember if it did any good and but it didn't feel great breathing in all that hot steamy Friar's Balsam!

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That is approximately what Buckleys tastes like.

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Thanks, don't think I've ever experienced that one. My gran always used to swear by Kavonia, tastes ok too.

Last time I bought cough medicine was when the dogs got kennel cough:huh:. Normally OH just has to suffer but then he never justs gets a cold it's always man flu;), so coughing lots means man flu is really serious:sneaky::).

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Buckley's smells bad tastes worse and doesn't seem to work but is a good threat when daughter is trying to skive of school with an imaginary cold, she soon gets on the bus when I ask: 'Buckley's or school?':thumbsup:

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Pass the codeine with the cough syrup please!

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Well seems to work wonders for ours one swigs and he runs around going aaaaaaargh for a minute and then sleeps all night.

works.

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So, a bit like brandy, then?

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I used to swear by 'Galloways' in the UK. Is Buckleys similar?