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If you grew up in the 1950's, do you remember...
Free Republic ^ | 12-25-2019 | Self

Posted on 12/24/2019 10:30:05 PM PST by MHT

My husband and grew up in the 1950's and are trying to remember the name of a health product that was given like peanut butter, on a spoon, usually at night.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: babyboomer; health; healthproduct; laxative; vitamins
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To: the_Watchman

Dr. Pepper was our Fizz-ician.


101 posted on 12/25/2019 6:58:23 AM PST by biggerten (Love you, Mom.)
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To: matthew fuller; blam
Hadacol inspired some popular songs.
102 posted on 12/25/2019 7:32:20 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: V K Lee

I sure remember Geritol in the 50s.

I believe in the commercials they said, “Remember it’s Lotireg spelled backwards.”


103 posted on 12/25/2019 7:55:30 AM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: blam

There were four of us kids. My grandfather was a pharmacist. Hadacol left him a box of logo t-shirts. Guess which kids all wore Captain Hadacol shirts? All the other kids knew why it was called Had A Call.


104 posted on 12/25/2019 7:59:38 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: jazusamo

The Geritol tonic contained about 12% alcohol and some B vitamins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geritol


105 posted on 12/25/2019 8:02:29 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: DannyTN

Blackstrap molasses is horrible. That’s nothing you would forget.


106 posted on 12/25/2019 8:31:25 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: MHT

In LA in the 50’s my gal friends’ mom gave her nightly a spoonful of something like that — I begged my mom to have some too. She said “don’t be silly” (which she said a lot) —phonetically it was something like - Ear-do-lay.


107 posted on 12/25/2019 8:42:12 AM PST by bunster
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To: MHT

Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin?


108 posted on 12/25/2019 8:42:48 AM PST by MisterArtery
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To: Starstruck

#METOO!


109 posted on 12/25/2019 8:54:15 AM PST by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty and Let the the Stupid AmericanTaxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: Wiser now
And here I thought I was the only one who was forced to swallow Vicks.

Well me and my 5 siblings are either in or close to our 70's and no worse for wear. I guess mom knew what she was doing.. We all had perfect attendance awards during our days in school..

110 posted on 12/25/2019 8:55:25 AM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Paregoric was wonderful!! It put us to sleep. Opium.


111 posted on 12/25/2019 9:04:04 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: TXnMA

Metrecal was a diet meal substitute.


112 posted on 12/25/2019 9:07:17 AM PST by GingisK
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To: MHT; eartick; greeneyes
Actually, I remember the "supplement" being very thick, sticky and strong-flavored -- as if it were based on blackstrap molasses -- with several vitamins added.

Having read all the reminiscences so far, I think that the "Multicebrin" I recall taking was a pill or capsule -- one of the first "multi-vitamin" supplements.

But, for the life of me, I can't recall the name of the molasses-based stuff.   :-{

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<THREADSLIDE> I was very familiar with the taste of molasses, because we always had a gallon can of Ribbon-cane Molasses in the cabinet under the sink. It was wonderful on Mom's hot, buttered biscuits (still one of my favorite "Mlidnight Snacks"! )

But, the real treat was in the bottom of the can, where the sugar crystallized out into "Rock Candy"... </THREADSLIDE>     '-)

TXnMA     '-)
  

113 posted on 12/25/2019 9:58:52 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's alias | "Islam": Allah's useful idiots | Brennan & 0b0z0: Islam's useful idiots)
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To: Palio di Siena

Geritol’s “benefit” was that it was mostly ethyl alcohol...


114 posted on 12/25/2019 10:00:24 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's alias | "Islam": Allah's useful idiots | Brennan & 0b0z0: Islam's useful idiots)
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To: Wiser now

My grandmother used to take a blob of Vicks every nite at bedtime. I think it might have been to drive off my granddaddy.

She got Alzheimers but don’t know it that is related.


115 posted on 12/25/2019 10:04:27 AM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: MayflowerMadam; Black Agnes

You’re correct

In 2019 they have taken on new meaning and often they are a bottle tree stuck stands and stuff....often blue but with others too

Light dispersion and stuff

Fifty years ago you would see them in the Mississippi delta mostly and it often signified someone who sold mojo or voodoo stuff

The trees would be white or white and blue rings up the trunk

And milk of magnesium bottles hanging like Christmas tree ornaments

Maybe some split tires as a fence all painted same pattern

I remember one new Tchula Miss in Holmes county on the back road towards Egypt plantation

There were even a few in the black parts of Jackson

Probably something that’s died out


116 posted on 12/25/2019 11:18:39 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: MayflowerMadam
This is the new version I’ve seen on internet ...I think it’s just decoration or good luck

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117 posted on 12/25/2019 11:20:38 AM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: MHT

Was it “asafetida”?


118 posted on 12/25/2019 11:52:25 AM PST by loveliberty2 (`)
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To: iontheball

Goose grease, yes. Never heard of skunk grease.


119 posted on 12/25/2019 12:04:40 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Old Yeller

I don’t think I ever had Blackstrap Molasses.

It certainly made a lasting impression on Dad. And not in a good way.


120 posted on 12/25/2019 12:15:31 PM PST by DannyTN
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