It's not that they can't make them taste good; it's that a lot of people believe the nastier it tastes, the better it works.
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You just know that some people would take a lot more than they should if it tastes good. And some cough syrup tastes really good ...
Makes sense to stop children or the exceptionally dumb from chugging it because mmm tasty
I think it was Robotussin that had the actually good grape flavour. But it's been forever since I was a kid and I haven't ever taken medicine I can just buy at a store as an adult. I treat myself with OJ and chicken soup for colds and fevers; 7up and saltines or dry toast if the flu.
Grape? Dimetap immediately sprang to mind.
Robussy?
Tuss is one of many Estonian words for pussy so I already read it as robo pussy tbh
Robitussin tastes like absolute sin now. I take it and have to work not to throw up.
It is effective though.
I secretly like the taste of cherry Nyquil.
If you've ever wondered who Mountain Dew Code Red is for and why that concoction keeps showing up, it's for people who like cherry Nyquil, know that it's weird, and also know that it'd be a bad idea to chug Nyquil.
Oh my favorite flavor: depleted uranium cherry
They missed formaldehyde flavored bubble gum.
I much preferred antibiotics as a kid; mmmmm, banana
If I ever find out how to get that glorious liquid I will likely drown myself in it.
There's a liqueur called "I'm bananas over you" that's pretty close, but I'm not sure if it's sold outside Canada/US
Hmmmm, I did not think I would die of alcohol poisoning, but here we are.
Thanks for the tip.
Let me know if you liked it so I can enjoy it vicariously through you; I'm on the wagon myself
Found it, and have tried a bit. Its good, but very much still a liqueur in flavor.
I would say its 60% of the way to the penicillin banana flavor. Good but not bananay enough.
La Croix already has Cherry Blossom, there’s no way they can top that with a worse attempt at a flavor.
Limoncello fuckin slaps tho
I like the way benadryl tastes
Honestly to me cough syrup tastes so incredibly bad as to be worse than the coughing. The cherry flavor has literally put me off of cherry flavored anything (except actual cherries) ever since childhood because it's my mental default for "tastes like nasty medicine flavor" now.
Why doesn't cough syrup have eucalyptus as a flavor like some cough drops do? Gimme that koala make out session juice
The orange is fucking great though
You know this might be why I like Buckley's of all things. They don't even try to make it taste nice and somehow come out ahead.
Buckley's my man. It sucks ass and they admit it, but it works.