I remember when I first saw Hall’s Mentholyptus on sale, back in the 1960’s. What amazed me was that to the British it was a CANDY, which is how they first tried to sell it in the U.S. (Along with my one attempt to eat kippers for breakfast, it showed me why the Brits deserved to lose the Empire.)
After Hall’s learned their lesson, they started marketing it to Americans as a cough drop. As a candy, horrible; as a cough drop, pretty good.
(The Philadelphia Orchestra used to have big bowls of Hall’s in the lobby of the Acadamy of Music so people could quietly unwrap the wax paper rather than rattle-rattle through the concert with a celophane-wrapped cough drop or hard candy. Sometimes the old ways are best.)
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I remember when I first saw Hall’s Mentholyptus on sale, back in the 1960’s. What amazed me was that to the British it was a CANDY, which is how they first tried to sell it in the U.S. (Along with my one attempt to eat kippers for breakfast, it showed me why the Brits deserved to lose the Empire.)
After Hall’s learned their lesson, they started marketing it to Americans as a cough drop. As a candy, horrible; as a cough drop, pretty good.
(The Philadelphia Orchestra used to have big bowls of Hall’s in the lobby of the Acadamy of Music so people could quietly unwrap the wax paper rather than rattle-rattle through the concert with a celophane-wrapped cough drop or hard candy. Sometimes the old ways are best.)