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

It tastes bad but it works.




So they say. I've never tried it.

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) ?

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

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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.

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.

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!

That is approximately what Buckleys tastes like.

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. 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.

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?'

Pass the codeine with the cough syrup please!

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

works.

So, a bit like brandy, then?

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