Buttery Sugaries

[Vinegar Tom]

Anybody remember Haliborange tablets?

That was all we had for sweets when I was wee

Seriously though , it was a daily ritual unscrewing the lid of the bottle , taking out the cotton wool bung and fishing out 2 wee pills , one each for me and my brother.
What was in them exactly

[Dexter St. Clair]

What was in them exactly

Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Water, Gelatin, Sweetener: Sorbitol; Vitamin C, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Pectin, Niacinamide, Vitamin E, Calcium Pantothenate, Flavour: Strawberry (0.25%); Vitamin B12 Prep. (Maltodextrin, Vitamin B12), Gellan Gum, Colour: Carmine Prep. (Carmines, Potassium Hydroxide, Citric Acid), Vitamin B6, Glazing Agents: Triglycerides of Fatty Acids, Carnauba Wax; Vitamin A Prep. (Vitamin A Palmitate, DL-alpha-Tocopherol), Vitamin D Prep. (Sunflower Oil, Vitamin D).

[Vinegar Tom]

Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Water, Gelatin, Sweetener: Sorbitol; Vitamin C, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Pectin, Niacinamide, Vitamin E, Calcium Pantothenate, Flavour: Strawberry (0.25%); Vitamin B12 Prep. (Maltodextrin, Vitamin B12), Gellan Gum, Colour: Carmine Prep. (Carmines, Potassium Hydroxide, Citric Acid), Vitamin B6, Glazing Agents: Triglycerides of Fatty Acids, Carnauba Wax; Vitamin A Prep. (Vitamin A Palmitate, DL-alpha-Tocopherol), Vitamin D Prep. (Sunflower Oil, Vitamin D)

That is disappointing. It all looks pretty harmless. I was expecting mainly dioxins.

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[draugelis]

Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Water, Gelatin, Sweetener: Sorbitol; Vitamin C, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid; Pectin, Niacinamide, Vitamin E, Calcium Pantothenate, Flavour: Strawberry (0.25%); Vitamin B12 Prep. (Maltodextrin, Vitamin B12), Gellan Gum, Colour: Carmine Prep. (Carmines, Potassium Hydroxide, Citric Acid), Vitamin B6, Glazing Agents: Triglycerides of Fatty Acids, Carnauba Wax; Vitamin A Prep. (Vitamin A Palmitate, DL-alpha-Tocopherol), Vitamin D Prep. (Sunflower Oil, Vitamin D)

That is disappointing. It all looks pretty harmless. I was expecting mainly dioxins.

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I fed my daughter all those healthy ingredients until she was old enough (12) to tell me to fu... get lost!

Quite frankly, it would scare me to check out "Gellan Gum" (I assume the pre-cursor to my wee lassie's evident addiction to Wrigleys?) or "DL-alpha-Tocopherol" on t'interweb for fear of what I might find out what I've been ignorantly feeding her over the years in the name of health!

[Dexter St. Clair]

I fed my daughter all those healthy ingredients until she was old enough (12) to tell me to fu... get lost!

Quite frankly, it would scare me to check out "Gellan Gum" (I assume the pre-cursor to my wee lassie's evident addiction to Wrigleys?) or "DL-alpha-Tocopherol" on t'interweb for fear of what I might find out what I've been ignorantly feeding her over the years in the name of health!

As a food additive, gellan gum is used as a thickener, emulsifier, and stabilizer. It has E number E418. It was an integral part of the now defunct Orbitz soft drink.

It is used in soya milks to keep the soy protein suspended in the milk.[2]

[HollowHorn]

It's a puir edumacation in here, soitis.

[job78989]

Syrup of Figs anyone :)

[hungryjoe]

Syrup of Figs anyone

Apparently, I loced the taste and once drank a whole bottle. According to my dad there was shite on the ceiling.

[Lone Groover]

As a treat my Mum would put make orange squash and put teaspoon of Andrews Liver salts in it.

I loved that stuff, and one day...... well, see Joes post for the approximate result, I have disliked the sound of a flock of starlings ever since.

[Doorstop]

[Shardonnay]

I have disliked the sound of a flock of starlings ever since.

Cheers for that. Was happily listening to one of my favourites songs " Starlings " by Elbow . Never will it sound quite the same again.

The violets explode inside me
When I meet your eyes
Then I'm spinning and I'm diving
Like a cloud of Starlings

Darling is this love ?

[ninatoo]

Some of you have such a way with words! I have been laughing my head off at the images conjured by these posts...

HH My Mum always used vinegar on our heads 'for the shine' but we also never had head lice, so it may have deterred them somehow.

When we had a stubborn fever, she also used to give us what she called 'vinegar baths', which was a sponge bath with vinegar and tepid water.

If she had added salt, we could have been mistaken for a bag of chips (crisps). Yeah, I know, obvious...oh well....

The poultice thing....mum had her life saved as a one year old with pneumonia when her granny used some sort of poultice on her back all night long, after the doctor had written her off. He had said "She'll no see the morning.' To which my Mum's Granny replied "Not if I have anything to do with it." or something more Glaswegian which meant the same thing.

Lucky she was around or I probably wouldn't be here!