So I was just reading the latest CandyBlog post about Cherry Cordial Hershey Kisses. Cybele May finds them "dreadful" and "disgusting", but admits "one of the reasons I probably don’t like cherry is this medication they used to give kids to sedate them before surgery (I’ve had it twice) - it was bright pink and they’d bring it in a little paper cup and it smelled kind of appealing at first (that’s how they suckered me in, that and I hadn’t eaten in 12 hours) but once in the mouth it washed down my throat with a fire that made me distrust those nurses for the rest of that stay in the hospital and the next."
When I was young, I used to have to choke down cherry-flavored liquid Dramamine before car trips and more than once was subjected to cherry-flavored flouride treatment at my evil dentist (Dr. Sween--could there be a worse name for a dentist? It sounds like his drills did). Not until I was older did I realize that none of the flavors made the medicine stomachable. When I started asking for unflavored stuff, I realized that flavor actually made them worse. Unfortunately, I didn't discover that fact until after cherry-flavored sweets were ruined for me forever…popsicles, candy. I'm glad to learn I am not alone!
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