Kathleen wrote:
> dejablues wrote:
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>>> dejablues wrote:
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>>>> "Sky" > wrote in message
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>>>>> jmcquown wrote:
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>>>>>> It's been a few years since I read many (many!) posts from people
>>>>>> on rfc
>>>>>> extolling the wonderous taste of Nutella. Lately I've been seeing
>>>>>> advertisements for it on (US) television. Has anyone else noticed
>>>>>> these
>>>>>> advertisements? Not that it matters, just seems odd to me they're
>>>>>> suddenly
>>>>>> ramping up a marketing campaign for Nutella
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jill
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>>>>> Most likely, the timing is on purpose to coincide with the
>>>>> beginning of
>>>>> the school year in the USA.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sky
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>>>> LOL! I saw them and thought the same thing! Nutella is the last
>>>> thing I would expect a kid to eat though - my husband likes it but
>>>> the kids most definitely do not.
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>>> It's a favorite of my daughter. When she's nervous and wound up,
>>> sliced apples and nutella to scoop are her favorites.
>>>
>>> Nutella and apple slices rank second only to spoonfuls of heavy syrup
>>> from canned peaches for curing nausea.
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>>
>> I have no experience with anxious nauseous children (we're all pretty
>> laid-back and mellow), but none of us have any sweet tooth to speak of!
>
> Nutella and apple slices are good when you're too nervous to eat much.
> Peach syrup is souvereign for more serious nausea, including various
> stomach bugs.
>
> The old guy (75 years old) who runs the stable where my daughter boards
> his horse had a bout of the pukes and was becoming dehydrated. His
> daughter, an MD, sent my daughter and the other stable hand scrambling
> around to various pharmacies in search of her favorite remedies, which
> he was unable to keep down.
>
> Alarmed, my daughter called me and asked what the clear stuff, the sweet
> liquid, that I always gave her brother and her was, and did she need a
> prescription to buy it?
>
> Told her it was just the liquid from canned peaches in heavy syrup, to
> go get a can and pour him a shot glass full and have him sip on it.
>
> Old Al swears by it now, not just for stomach flu, but as a hangover
> remedy, too.
>

I used to be able to buy Coca Cola syrup in a bottle at the pharmacy.
That was the most effective nausea control available without
prescription. You can't get it any longer.

I'll have to remember the peach syrup, but knowing it's basically corn
syrup, wouldn't a shot of watered down Karo work as well? Do the cooked
and canned peaches impart some medicinal magic?

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.