Removing the feeding tube from our aging hipster plaid pants

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Not that you really actually care, but sometimes yes. Mass produced stuff, no.



Sparkling water, white grape juice concentrate, fresh ginger root, natural ginger flavor with other natural flavors.

Vernor's is the only ginger drink that matters- does it still have ginger?

Vernor's trivia:

• A nineteen-year-old James Vernor began experimenting with his own ginger ale recipe. However, like many young men his age, during 1862 in Detroit, he put his plans on hold and enlisted as a Union soldier with the Fourth Michigan Cavalry. Before leaving for war though, James placed his experimental ginger ale extract into an old oak cask. At the end of the Civil War, James would return home and open a drug store of his own at 235 Woodward. Another thing that James opened was that old oak cask. To his surprise, the four years of aging blended a select group of secret ingredients to perfection.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Not that you really actually care, but sometimes yes. Mass produced stuff, no.



Sparkling water, white grape juice concentrate, fresh ginger root, natural ginger flavor with other natural flavors.

I do actually care. Thanks.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I found that too. Not sure what "natural flavoring" means either. Were we all given ginger ale for upset stomachs as children under false pretenses?

I was frequently given Coca-Cola with the bubbles stirred out, no ice. I keep regular (not diet) ginger ale in the house for when I'm sick -- even if it's not actually helpful, it has a strong placebo effect or whatever.

ETA who's sick? you or sequels?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I was frequently given Coca-Cola with the bubbles stirred out, no ice. I keep regular (not diet) ginger ale in the house for when I'm sick -- even if it's not actually helpful, it has a strong placebo effect or whatever.

ETA who's sick? you or sequels?

There was a prescription bottle of "coca cola syrup" in our fridge growing up, purportedly for upset stomachs, although I don't recall ever taking it. We always got ginger ale.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ltl/fb

ETA who's sick? you or sequels?

Sequels, but usually only in the morning.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I was frequently given Coca-Cola with the bubbles stirred out, no ice. I keep regular (not diet) ginger ale in the house for when I'm sick -- even if it's not actually helpful, it has a strong placebo effect or whatever.

ETA who's sick? you or sequels?

No one is sick. I just can't believe I've been fooled for so long. I feel like B.F. Skinner's daughter. How can that placebo effect be...effective when you're 3? B/c mommy says it will make you feel better?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Sequels, but usually only in the morning.

ZING!!


Hi fringey!

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
No one is sick. I just can't believe I've been fooled for so long. I feel like B.F. Skinner's daughter. How can that placebo effect be...effective when you're 3? B/c mommy says it will make you feel better?

Just plain warm water with sugar in it will settle a stomach. So ginger ale with no ginger is basically the same thing (except not warm).

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I do actually care. Thanks.

eta OK, beat to the punch. Whatever.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
ZING!!


Hi fringey!

Ginger's pretty zingy, so I'm okay with the use of zing here.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
ZING!!

I thought that was meant as a compliment - a testament to your virility.

(Not, say, a comment on how Shape Shifter might feel if he woke up next to you in the morning.

P.S. Ginger lemonade has zing.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Just plain warm water with sugar in it will settle a stomach. So ginger ale with no ginger is basically the same thing (except not warm).

I was told that it's the carbonation. I got a lot of Sprite when I was sick. But my illnesses usually involved a very high fever.

And when I have a hangover. Sprite is excellent for hangovers.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Just plain warm water with sugar in it will settle a stomach. So ginger ale with no ginger is basically the same thing (except not warm).

Actually, no one is sick RIGHT NOW. I was deathly hung over yesterday, and, as I've mentioned before, I can't throw up. Ever. I'm working on a Seinfeld-like run of not throwing up. So, instead, I feel nauseated for 6 straight hours. I need to either: (1) stop drinking like a frat kid, or (2) find a semi-cure. I can handle the headaches/general aches and pains from hangovers, but I'd rather (honestly) be kicked in the groin then go through that again...I'm apparently too stupid to think about the effects of drinking beer, wine, champagne and vodka all in the same night.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
ZING!!

Do you have that saved somewhere to cut and paste in* or do you do the codes each time for it?



*(like, for example, Hank's Gilligan schtick)

Originally posted by robustpuppy
There was a prescription bottle of "coca cola syrup" in our fridge growing up

You were supposed to refrigerate that snake oil? We had it in the pantry at room temp and it was often doled out in all of its sweet oily viscuosness for upset stomachs. Maybe folk memory recalled the days when it actually had the active ingredient in it -- I'm sure the early version of it relieved all sorts of nervous conditions. But placebo or not I still find coca-cola useful as a hangover remedy and/or when I can't keep anything else down.