Important safety tip, thank you, Egon.

[truepenny]

Tonight, I have received confirmation of my theory that the person who places orders for the local pharmacy either (a.) has no sense of taste or (b.) gets a perverse joy out of choosing the foulest and most unnatural medicinal flavors known to humankind.

This would be why they stock only cherry--no, excuse me, "cherry"--"cherry" Pepto-Bismol tablets.

And it would explain the presence of "Assorted Fruit" Tums, which have just provided me one of the nastier learning experiences in recent memory.

I don't know what flavor the Tums people think that pale-green "assorted fruit" is, but it tastes exactly the way Comet smells.

EX-ACT-LY.

I'm not sure brushing my teeth is going to be enough.

Comments

[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

You aint kidding! I don't know WHY they thought fruit flavors were a good idea for medicine to treat an unhappy tummy (and the cruel bastage who put it out on the market should be shot!)
Same goes for fruit flavored dental stuff at the dentist office. Gag!
*shudders at the thought of orange, pina colada or strawberry*
"Look out, food escape!"
--The Cat, Red Dwarf

Give me plain old not sweet peppermint every time.

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

...but it tastes exactly the way Comet smells.

Oh, yuck. Thank you for saving me.

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

Charry Pepto-Bismol sounds wholly wrong even before you put the quotation marks in.

You know what's sad? Mint Tums are worse (the texture manages to be even more like eating chalk, the flavour is more chemical, and there's no resemblance to mint anywhere as far as I can tell) and berry Tums.... don't ask. I buy the Assorted Fruit by choice, as the best option (though I eat orange and pink before green every time).

OTOH, most versions of flavoured vitamin C are almost good,a s far as freaky medcinal tablets go. (There's one brand of tropical fruit vitamin c that's so much like eating Flintstones kids' vitamines I had to double check.)

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Oh, I could pop "Assorted Fruit" Tums like CANDY! But green is definitely the ickiest, yeah. But don't blame your poor pharmacy. That's just the default flavor of Tums. It's ubiquitous.

Feel better soon!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Due to his joyous conjunction of health problems, timprov has to take a liquid medication three times a day every day for the foreseeable future. The pharmacist told me it would be $2 extra to make it taste like a list of "fruity" flavors (note distinction from fruit flavors!) including "banana bubble gum." I stared stupidly at him for a minute: $2 to make it taste like "banana bubble gum"? We'd have paid $2 to make it not taste like "banana bubble gum"! "Well, it's not going to taste good," the pharmacist repeated for the third time (the previous two dealt with compounding the liquid). And so I repeated, "I doubt that the doctor has prescribed this as a taste sensation," and on we went with our lives.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I actually rather like the berry-flavored (well, okay, yeah: "berry"-flavored) Tums. I had been finding the assorted fruit rather disconcertingly like SweeTarts, except without the tartness--until I hit the Comet-flavored ones. Now, as P. G. Wodehouse says, the burnt child fears the spilt milk, and I have become suspicious of all Tums, everywhere.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of-- no, not the time you tried to drill a hole through your head-- seeing "artificially cherry flavored" sweetened dried cranberries, at the supermarket.

[amayaxellia.livejournal.com]

Oh, no joke. Those things are wickedly nasty. The "creators" are probably laughing it up in...hell...
The chaulky texture doesn't help the experience, neither.