It tastes awful, but it works...
You know you are living beyond the tourist existence when you end up experiencing the things that Canadians daren’t share with anyone else – not even Americans. After all, if you’re going to try and send your visitors away with a positive lasting impression of your country, why would you do anything to risk that?
Then again, its cold here and people get ill. Or specifically, ME! (I swear this is the only calendar month I have ever experienced where the temperatures in the same city have been above 30 and below 0 – and there are still 8 days to go) So, dressed in a suitably inappropriate shirt and jeans last weekend, I picked up a chill for my sins, caught a cough and lost my voice. Which, as some people will tell you, isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Some people here think I talk too much…
Toronto’s urban angel Amy suggested the cure. “Try an over the counter cold medication called Buckley's...it tastes awful but it really does work for getting your voice back”
“It tastes awful…” Would you really buy a product that had that endorsement? Because that is how they advertise it! http://www.buckleys.com/ – See for yourselves.
Can I describe the taste? Putrid. The aftertaste is something resembling warm liquid fishermans friend. Sickening. And, if I am honest, the look of the liquid is not something that should be being described before the watershed. Canadians may understand what I mean by that. You wouldn’t drink it if you didn’t know what it was, lets leave it at that…
And does it work? Well, 5 days into my treatment, my cough is much better, but my voice is still weak. Then again, as people will tell you, maybe I talk too much!
Then again, its cold here and people get ill. Or specifically, ME! (I swear this is the only calendar month I have ever experienced where the temperatures in the same city have been above 30 and below 0 – and there are still 8 days to go) So, dressed in a suitably inappropriate shirt and jeans last weekend, I picked up a chill for my sins, caught a cough and lost my voice. Which, as some people will tell you, isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Some people here think I talk too much…
Toronto’s urban angel Amy suggested the cure. “Try an over the counter cold medication called Buckley's...it tastes awful but it really does work for getting your voice back”
“It tastes awful…” Would you really buy a product that had that endorsement? Because that is how they advertise it! http://www.buckleys.com/ – See for yourselves.
Can I describe the taste? Putrid. The aftertaste is something resembling warm liquid fishermans friend. Sickening. And, if I am honest, the look of the liquid is not something that should be being described before the watershed. Canadians may understand what I mean by that. You wouldn’t drink it if you didn’t know what it was, lets leave it at that…
And does it work? Well, 5 days into my treatment, my cough is much better, but my voice is still weak. Then again, as people will tell you, maybe I talk too much!
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