Becca wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> C.D wrote:
>>
>>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
>>> news >>>> I feel like shit. I may have about ten minutes, here, before I have
>>>> to go back to bed. Can't sleep, but don't have the energy to do
>>>> anything else, either -- not even read. (And that just kills me.) So
>>>> I've been flashing back to little home remedies from growing up in the
>>>> 1950s...
>>>>
>>>> I think sometimes Mom would give me small amounts of what I remember
>>>> as a weak solution of sugar in water. Ever heard of that?
>>>>
>>>> Burnt Toast: I distinctly remember Mom burning a slice of toast and
>>>> scraping the ashes into a glass of water. I guess this was to settle
>>>> a stomach (the charcoal or whateveer) -- probably more from acid upset
>>>> than from feeling urpy.
>>>>
>>>> Liquid Jell-O. I guess that was a variant on sugar water; it's not
>>>> like there was sugar-free Jell-0 in 1953.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> sounds more like "pumping your stomach".
>>
>> What does?
>
> Burned toast will make you hurl.

Never did. Thus my confusion. Maybe my mom had a better recipe than
yours did.

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