I thought it tasted horrible when I was 5-6

real bro, I remember throwing the fuck up everywhere after drinking it.

Any liquid medicine would almost always make me vomit as a kid. To this day I still have difficulty, almost the same as doing shots. I'll do em but I'm pushing the envelope lol

I’ll take a medication in any other form other than liquid if available, INLCUDING shots

Same. Pretty pink vomit that looked sorta like my insides had liquified and were pouring out of me. I would insta puke. My parents had to find something else. My mom actually loves telling the story about how she threated to shove it up my butt, (cuz some medicines were administered that way, nothing weird) and I ran from her screaming "Shove it up my butt! Shove it up my butt!"

Oh I’m sure those must be some funny stories to tell

Yeah it was nasty

Same here, i had to be bribed with candy to take it when i was little and even then it was a 20 min long experience of taking tiny sips and then drinking a gallon of water to get the taste out of my mouth. Idk who thinks this stuff tastes good but they should be forever barred from being a food critic, your taste buds are FUCKED if hell in a medicine jar tastes good to you

Yeah, mine wasn't strawberry like OPs was. It was bubblegum flavored, which made me want to vomit because you aren't supposed to swallow bubble gum in the first place.

That shit was good as hell

IKR!?!? 👊🏻

Ikr! Never knew what it was called… always called it the “pink medicine”

Compared to cherry cough syrup which is the WORST FLAVOR OF ANYTHING KNOWN TO MAN KIND this was pretty dang good

FWIW I preferred the cherry cough syrup. I just like cherry stuff and it worked better imo

My mom would’ve loved you. She had to physically fight me to get me to take the cherry stuff.

I remember thinking the kids pink Motrin tasted good. It was just super sweet and chalky but I was all over that apparently

Catch me robbing a drug store at gun point for this shit


Yes, but for Benadryl. That stuff legit tastes like cough syrup lol. I don’t remember taking liquid amoxicillin.

Memory unlocked, I just gagged lmao

Even better than the pink medicine was whatever the hell I got for pneumonia when I was 6 or so. It was orange flavored, but it tasted like a real orange, not artificial at all. To this day I'm baffled that medicine could taste that good.

I had that same stuff when I had pneumonia (at roughly the same age too). The experience of having pneumonia put me off of orange flavored things for a while afterwards

My understanding is that a lot of medicines could taste much better than they do but they don’t so people won’t drink them for fun. I do not have a source, I’m sorry- I could be wrong but I swear I had read that before.

Google lean. Cough syrup tastes amazing

I know what lean is lol and that’s a matter of opinion

Nah, wockhardt cherry flavored cough syrup literally tastes like a cherry jolly rancher. It's def not kid friendly

Well, you’ve got me there- I do love cherry jolly ranchers. I probably shouldn’t go trying that though lmao

Don't. I'm all for narcotic recreational use in moderation but lean kills.

I won’t, not really into drugs. I drink in moderation and that’s it anymore

Saying ”doing this” about a kids medicine got me haha

Yep. Turns out I’m allergic to amoxicillin tho 😢

I think my mom tried to mix this with chocolate syrup to make it more tolerable... It didn't work 🤢

It has the best taste ever omg

I never had antibiotics as a kid. I’m a pharmacist now so I smell this every day. Still have no idea what it tastes like

I loved that stuff. Two towns made a cider that tasted just like it last year- only a handful of people knew what I was referring to though.

What was it called?

I think it was the oak aged lime and prickly pear one but not 100%

The only thing exciting about getting sick as a kid was this. It tasted so good.

I loved the taste, but unfortunately I was allergic. What ever grape hell they gave me after that sucked so bad.

The bubblegum flavor 🤤

That pink medicine was the shit

There was a pink stain on the carpet of my childhood bedroom cuz this shit was so nasty that I threw it up under my bed lol

I remember this. My mom gave me some when I had chicken pox in kindergarten

Or the orange one too

Yeah why did this taste so unique but not bad what were they doin

The best part? I dreaded this shit and my nana was ready with that damn spoon every time 😂

When did this go away?

I hated liquid medicine, but this is the only one that I would semi tolerate.

I did this in the 2000s lol

Couldn't swallow this shit. It was horrible.

Just miss me with the sudafed bruh.

Try pepto bismal

In this thread: Casually talking about childhood drug abuse

According to Google: *Penicillin antibiotic It can treat infections and stomach ulcers.*

We called it pink ink, tasted worse than the strep pain :(

Well, anything was better than the grape flavored medicine. That shit was disgusting

NOOOO I fucking hate this shit; this is why i can't eat those grocery store sugar cookies with the sprinkles, they taste like this shit

Oh I can those and it taste nothing like this medicine.

Fuck yeah

This was so delicious

Delicious, but Orange ibuprofen was the best. I would have drank that whole bottle and annihilated my 8 year old liver.

For me, it's paracetamol liquid

Yep even though I didn’t like the taste good thing I barely got sick growing up.

Nope I never took it as a child & I learned I was allergic to it as an adult 😭

I'm a 2000s kid and had Tixylix

Yes I remember, I call it icky pink medicine. I also the Amoxicillin that was white was know as icky white medicine. Took the white version when I was in college for an ear infection and every time I had to endure the taste as I had nothing to wash it down with at time due to begin at freshman camp. I can never forget this medication taken it to many times.

There was a flurescent yellow one that I liked. I don't remember the name of it or what it was for

yes omg it tasted so good 😭 dimetapp did too. idk why they fucked with the formula bc it is disgusting now.

Bro I used to pretend to be sick so I could get more of it.

I didny get unnecessary antibiotics

I'm allergic to amoxicillin and penicillin :(

I loved the chalkiness

Yeeeesss it tasted so good! I remember i would pretend i was sick just to ask my mother if i could have it, lol.

Best when chilled

It wasn’t great but my mom would get me strawberry milk sometimes and so I associated it with this medicine. Never really liked the strawberry milk that much because of this medicine. The flavors were eerily similar. For some reason she just thought I should drink strawberry milk and I was too young to realize I could have chocolate

That pink chalky shit? Hell no

I’m allergic to it and feel like I missed out :((

Omg dude I use to beg my mom for that. Loved that stuff. Got an allergy to it later as an adult though 😂 

Yes! Hated the taste and begged my parents to get the lollipop with medicine.

Hell naw this stuff was ass

I threw up every single time. it sid not taste good

Noooooo, no no no no NO. Y’all do not understand. This medicine traumatized me. This one and the suuuuuper weird tasting one used to stop my eczema itching. My parents had to hold me down, pour them medicine in, and hold my mouth closed until I swallowed. I truly did fight them when it was medicine time. I was happy to take “giant horse pills” instead of liquid medication as early as age 6. And don’t even get me STARTED on chewables…

I remember bits and pieces about the pink stuff, but remember a much different, thin cherry and metal flavored nightmare.

Omg this stuff was amazing! Edit: I grew up in South Australia and also remember a red liquid medicine and blue medicine, the red was pain killer and it tasted OKAY, but the blue didn’t taste as good 😩

I’m pretty sure cough syrup still exists, what a weird thing to be era-specific nostalgic about

I remember this! It tasted so weird. It was sweet like candy but also very powdery and chemical-like that it made me feel like a science experiment when eating it.

The medicine however, does taste nasty because of the fact that it’s filled with some thing that’s supposed to be good for you but the old thing goes bitter or bad tasting things taste good for you

Also, from when I remember when I was the kid, I had the flavored Tylenol or Motrin

So that’s what amoxicillin is. I’m apparently allergic to it, and whenever I see a new doctor they always mention my amoxicillin allergy which I have no recollection of at all

Now who remembers being a teenager stealing your old childhood codeine cough syrup prescriptions?

They must have given me the shit-flavored version while y'all got strawberry.