Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for March 13, 2012

Old mother’s trick, first the molasses – then the sulfur…

Don’t they make cough medicines that actually taste better now…?Like example, really minty or herbal ones…?

No matter how old we get, we’re still little kids at heart….

You may have seen the sign: Growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional!

Im 75 , but I tell people Im 30 and I`m sharing this body with an old mam.

My uncle and aunt have a running gag at family get-togethers: whenever he says something about “When I was growing up,” she gives a little “ahem,” and he has to revise it to, “When I grew older, because, as you all know, I never grew up.”

Mother knows best.

oh yeah. hot onion soup, then vicks cherry cough syrup. braapppp.

They now have straight liquid cough medicine without the syrupy texture that you just drink. I like this better than the syrups. It even has flavors like orange, honey, and grape, so it tastes better than traditional syrups.

Oh come now! The thing to take these days is Mucinex — and it comes in capsule form. No yukky-tasting syrup for me! (Now, if you really want a good cough tonic: hot tea, honey, lemon and BOURBON!)

Instant childhood…all over again!

Rose needs a little girl alter-ego suppressant!

Vicki wouldn’t complain about the taste of cough syrup….especially if it were spiked with jalapenos.

Goshdarnit, you just dredged out her inner child!

Yeah that is why I don’t go to the doctor unless I am on the verge of death. Rest and some soup is all you really need.

If it doesn’t taste bad how will you know it is any good. :)

Told that to my kid once.. Yeah he didn’t believe me either..

Shot of rum, shot of lemon juice, 2 tsp honey, cinnamon stick, maybe a few cloves, then fill the rest of the mug with boiling water.

@Joe my father-in-law was 27 when he married my mother-in-law at 17 … they dated when she was 15 … how’s that for stalking? but in Great White North, it was OK back then – nothing else to do up there … they had a “marriage” but not sure how loving it was, but it was livable … for them … were married for 52 years … he once gave her a kiss on his birthday and she was absolutely stunned and didn’t know how to react – they did not do it much at all … we’re only sure they had “whoopie” 3 times because they had 3 kids – any other time is debatable. He passed away several years ago, but I once asked him several years ago why he never got a divorce … he was stunned at my question, but then said they were just “used” to each other by then and set in their ways.

You guys been reading Stone Soup this week and last week? They all have the flu on there too. It’s a week until spring. We can forget about those winter ailments.

I wish my mom could take care of me when I’m sick.

It seems that every cough suppressant today has dextromethoryphan (?) in it, and that gags me so bad, I’d rather be sick! What I want, apparently, is no longer produced; elixer of turpin hydrate. “Fire in the hole!” Or at least down your throat. But the stuff worked. Took it so much as a kid, that I actually like the taste of it. One time (in the Army) I got a prescription for six bottles of it and the pharmacy goofed. It was elixer of T.H. with codine! Fortunatly, I worked int he hospital, and the pharmacy tech only had to go to the third floor to retrieve it and give me the non-narcotic. If I were into that type of thing, I could have made a few bucks. (BTW my kids hated that stuff as much as I did at their age, and now complain that they can’t find it either.)

I like your recipe! (However, for some of us, mint extract can be hard on the tummy. Now maybe some fresh mint leaves steeped in the concoction would work!)

Ah, yes, Vicks Formula 44, the black syrup.