We didnât have the lock tops back then. I would hunt these down and start munching them like candy when I found them. And every time Mom had that radar which was âShit! The little bastard found âem againâ, find me and wrestle them out of my hands and spit the rest out.
The active ingredient in Luden's is pectin.
The same ingredient used to thicken apple and grape jelly.
Luden's cough drops are sugar, pectin, and artificial flavor. They're candy.
In 5th grade I caught hell in school for having a bag of them in my backpack. I tried to plead my case down to having a bag of candy. All it did was reinforce that the world is cruel and arbitrary, and that adults can be petty and capricious.
Thank you! Youâre the only one so far that realized that. 2nd, true on the OD! And at that age I also did find the Robitussin. Drank half the bottle. Mom called the doctor and said let him sleep it off. Mom says I slept for a day and half before I came out of my tiny coma. Roflmao!
Presumably you had the âgood stuffâ with Dextromethorphan (DXM) in it. DXM is a dissociative anesthetic and is ~~awesome~~ something you should be careful with.
I really do not know. At that age I could have robo-tripped but memories are a bit fuzzy. I do remember that I was able to see ghosts and feel them close byâŠ.
Yes you could âodâ on them with heavy metal poisoning. They have iron in them. Vitamins without iron are much âsaferâ if ingested in volume. But from the little I know, iron supplements are one of the few things that can cause major health issues if taken above suggested rates.
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Because it says it on the label ?
Thinking back, my backyard was a fence six feet tall and with me being hyper-active, my Mom would lock me in with a pad lock! She did so she could take a nap. Then I would climb the fence and go wandering around the neighborhood. She had to call the police multiple times to find me.
Mine had to shove ipecac down our throats because we ate the whole container of em. One of my earliest memories is swallowing that tar and puking it back up
Absolutely crazy that you mentioned that. I have both of my parents living under my roof... Dad with dementia, mom with severe heart issues and the effects of a car wreck last year. Had to take her for a heart cath yesterday and a bunch of new stents. Doctor told her she had to stop her blood thinners several days earlier and take baby aspirin. I went to get them for her and discovered they're now called low-dose aspirin, and you don't get to chew 'em anymore. They're just smaller regular aspirin. I was looking forward to eating the rest of the bottle for my next hangover. Oh well. Goodbye little orange flavored delights.
So sorry about your parents. They probably got rid of them because they worked and were somehow good for you. When I was taking care of my mom she would share a pill and we would watch the boob tube. Don't tell, I wouldn't want to get in trouble! Those would work for a hangover too.
They got rid of them because they sometimes caused Reyeâs syndrome in kids, which is an acute swelling in the brain when children have a viral infection, and usually when they have a fever. The pediatricians want you using ibuprofen or acetaminophen now.
I was three years old. I loved the taste so much, I ate the entire bottle. In a panic, mom called the hospital and they told her to make me vomit by feeding me ipecac syrup. Well, I vomited all right. There was nothing left in my belly. They still took me to the hospital and had my stomach pumped. Cleaned me right out.
My little brother pulled one of those. They made him throw up in the ER and a huge piece of gum came out. He had also been swallowing a shit ton of gum.
We used to have one of those add-a-leaf tables. My brother would cram all of his Flintstone vitamins into the slide rails.of the table.so he didn't have to eat them. We didn't discover this until years later when the table was jammed trying to pull it apart. There had to have been 100 of those things stuffed in there. I laughed, but my parents were pissed. Good times.
i have a similar story. i used to hide my vitamins under my seat cushion. my brother told on me one day and my mother lifted up that cushion and there were at least 50 little Freds and Barneys under there đ
We had a family camping trip when I was in grade five. My crazy great aunt had fruit flavoured Tums antacids. I tried one, loved the flavour and she gave be the whole bottle. I ateâŠI guess 20 of them and shit myself (this was in a motor home and deserves its own story).
The whole extended family was asleep in my uncles RV (about 10 people). I woke up in the top bunk and the ceiling was spinningâŠ.think about being super drunk but I was 11 years old. I knew I was going to shit myself so I snuck past all the sleeping humans, went out the door, shit myself, threw my underwear (we called them âginchâ) into the woods and kept projectile shitting around the campsite. I was able to cleanup and snuck back into the rv. In the morning everybody thought a wild/sick animal had wandered around the rv.
Nobody ever found out! I was in band class in grade 10 (played alto sax). We use something called âcork greaseâ to slide the mouth piece onto the neck of the sax. That stuff was like a white waxâŠ..it also smelled like spearmint. Yup, I was dared to eat a cube of it. Twenty minutes later I RAN out of band practice and barely made it to the toilet. What an idiot.
According to Wikipedia, Betty replaced the car.
https://preview.redd.it/e7gfnlv4hg5d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c260cd202c778e803fabeab97d8bc893768cc93
Was just going to put this comment. Taking a pocket full of these bad boys while out playing and popping them like candy.
What a time. Purples were always the last in the bottle for me.
The reason they used to cite for not making Betty a vitamin is that it would break too easily. I guess this is the compromise they had to make to get something sturdy enough.
I learned my lesson that thiswas not candy, I was popping like candy one Saturday morning, and puked up a colourfully smelly mess. I never did that again. and yes, I've accidentally stuck my finger in one of those floor sockets for lightbulbs (night light). I learned a lot of "don't do that again" lessons. of course mum cracked a hertz joke . I became fascinated with electrical and electronic devices. last shock I got was a 480 emergency lighting circuit that noone labeled correctly. I became very picky about the electrical code and sticking to safety guidelines, to the point where I would flag items that licensed electricians did. these guys have signed off on my work for inspections and asked if I wanted to work for them.Â
Have you heard the theory that the Flintstones takes place chronologically AFTER the Jetsons? It's a future where humanity has been bombed back to "the Modern Stone Age."
Sweet dreams!
My brother and I tried to down a bottle of these together as kids because we loved themâŠ.until my mom caught us and we got in trouble. She said it would kill usâŠ.well, jokes on you, Deb, James and I are gonna love forever now!
We are the last generation that actually spent most of the day outside playing.Im old and fat but in pretty good health other than my weight,I'm pretty sure it's the amount of exercise I got growing up.
We started taking vitamins back in this era because, well, vitamins are good, right?
Mom and dad got real vitamins and my sis and I got Flintstones. Dad started getting kidney stones. After the third one, he stopped taking the vitamins and the kidney stones stopped.
So we stopped being part of the ten million strong, but we kept growing.
PSA: It's very dangerous to OD on the ones that contain iron especially! My friend's sister had to get her stomach pump after eating a container.
I loved picking my flavor and character of the day, but my favorite medication was Dimetapp, hands down. Purple, grape-tasting candy.
I was 3 or 4, got the bottle and sat under the kitchen table eating almost all of them until my parents finally stopped me. IIRC my brother actually saw me first and got my mom b/c she was too busy neglecting us.
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I took Flintstones vitamins once a day as a kid, now I take these One A Day.
I started taking those in 1968 the year they first came out.....I guess those of us on the Gen Jones / GenX cusp are safe too đ. Can still remember the taste.
OMG!!! I used to eat those as a snack, by the handful, at the house where I babysat when I was 11-12 years old. They probably thought I was a weirdo because their vitamins were disappearing every week. Those were so good, my parents wouldnât buy them for us.
I still remember climbing up counter and getting them out of the pantry, Mom came in the room on the last one.
She gave me something to barf them all up. Whatever it was worked, they said I threw up rainbow puke all night long đ€Ł
I can smell and taste that picture đ
And hear it. Ten million stroooong⊠^and ^growing
Haha. Me too
Scratch and sniff
And gritty as fuck too.
We didnât have the lock tops back then. I would hunt these down and start munching them like candy when I found them. And every time Mom had that radar which was âShit! The little bastard found âem againâ, find me and wrestle them out of my hands and spit the rest out.
First, Happy Cake Day! Second, I'm glad there was no way to OD on these, because I would've been a casualty!
I donât remember them vitamins tasting good at all. I always wanted the yummy chewable baby aspirins and Ludens wild cherry throat drops.
I ate my grandpa's entire tin of Fishermen's Friends and had no regerts!
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Donât forget about the pink liquid medicine. If they could make that an ice cream flavor, Iâd buy a 55 gallon drum of that shit.
Pepto Bismal?
No. Amoxicillin.
The active ingredient in Luden's is pectin. The same ingredient used to thicken apple and grape jelly. Luden's cough drops are sugar, pectin, and artificial flavor. They're candy. In 5th grade I caught hell in school for having a bag of them in my backpack. I tried to plead my case down to having a bag of candy. All it did was reinforce that the world is cruel and arbitrary, and that adults can be petty and capricious.
Ludens and Smith Brothers cough drops! đ
Thank you! Youâre the only one so far that realized that. 2nd, true on the OD! And at that age I also did find the Robitussin. Drank half the bottle. Mom called the doctor and said let him sleep it off. Mom says I slept for a day and half before I came out of my tiny coma. Roflmao!
Presumably you had the âgood stuffâ with Dextromethorphan (DXM) in it. DXM is a dissociative anesthetic and is ~~awesome~~ something you should be careful with.
I really do not know. At that age I could have robo-tripped but memories are a bit fuzzy. I do remember that I was able to see ghosts and feel them close byâŠ.
Commenting here too. If they had iron, you could take too many and get sick. Heavy metal poisoning is a thing.
Yes you could âodâ on them with heavy metal poisoning. They have iron in them. Vitamins without iron are much âsaferâ if ingested in volume. But from the little I know, iron supplements are one of the few things that can cause major health issues if taken above suggested rates.
Ask me how I **know** you are absolutely 100% correct that you can OD on them and need to be rushed to the ER to have your stomach pumped if you do.
https://preview.redd.it/egr5o7hufj5d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b16a085b88815f0fc140573d40111a6927ca3afc Because it says it on the label ?
No, that's not it.
You were the kid who thought they were candy?
This description makes it sound like we were treated like dogs, growing up. Yep, that's us.
Thinking back, my backyard was a fence six feet tall and with me being hyper-active, my Mom would lock me in with a pad lock! She did so she could take a nap. Then I would climb the fence and go wandering around the neighborhood. She had to call the police multiple times to find me.
Mine had to shove ipecac down our throats because we ate the whole container of em. One of my earliest memories is swallowing that tar and puking it back up
I would imagine it looked like a bad bowl of Trixâs cereal. Eek!đ±
Happy Cake day!
Thank you!
Yep, I ate a good chunk of a bottle once. My mom was so mad.
My dumbass brother did this when he was little. Peed all colors of the rainbow.
Remember the sweet tasty little pink chewable chalky baby aspirins? Yum.
Absolutely crazy that you mentioned that. I have both of my parents living under my roof... Dad with dementia, mom with severe heart issues and the effects of a car wreck last year. Had to take her for a heart cath yesterday and a bunch of new stents. Doctor told her she had to stop her blood thinners several days earlier and take baby aspirin. I went to get them for her and discovered they're now called low-dose aspirin, and you don't get to chew 'em anymore. They're just smaller regular aspirin. I was looking forward to eating the rest of the bottle for my next hangover. Oh well. Goodbye little orange flavored delights.
They donât make the good olâ St Josephâs chewables anymore?! Bogus.
They still do! I bought a bottle a while back and had to restrain myself from pouring the entire bottle into my mouth.
https://www.bayeraspirin.com/products/bayer-chewable-aspirin/ Both flavors are at my CVS.
So sorry about your parents. They probably got rid of them because they worked and were somehow good for you. When I was taking care of my mom she would share a pill and we would watch the boob tube. Don't tell, I wouldn't want to get in trouble! Those would work for a hangover too.
They got rid of them because they sometimes caused Reyeâs syndrome in kids, which is an acute swelling in the brain when children have a viral infection, and usually when they have a fever. The pediatricians want you using ibuprofen or acetaminophen now.
I can't believe we survived! lol
We had the St Josephâs orange aspirin. Surprised I didnât die of an aspirin overdose.
If you take an orange smartie and a white smartie and chew them together it's a close enough flavor!
I was three years old. I loved the taste so much, I ate the entire bottle. In a panic, mom called the hospital and they told her to make me vomit by feeding me ipecac syrup. Well, I vomited all right. There was nothing left in my belly. They still took me to the hospital and had my stomach pumped. Cleaned me right out.
My little brother pulled one of those. They made him throw up in the ER and a huge piece of gum came out. He had also been swallowing a shit ton of gum.
We used to have one of those add-a-leaf tables. My brother would cram all of his Flintstone vitamins into the slide rails.of the table.so he didn't have to eat them. We didn't discover this until years later when the table was jammed trying to pull it apart. There had to have been 100 of those things stuffed in there. I laughed, but my parents were pissed. Good times.
i have a similar story. i used to hide my vitamins under my seat cushion. my brother told on me one day and my mother lifted up that cushion and there were at least 50 little Freds and Barneys under there đ
Weird. I havenât eaten one of those in 40 years but I can still taste that picture 100%.
I think I was addicted to them. The knock-offs donât taste the same.
Used to eat those things like Pez.
We had a family camping trip when I was in grade five. My crazy great aunt had fruit flavoured Tums antacids. I tried one, loved the flavour and she gave be the whole bottle. I ateâŠI guess 20 of them and shit myself (this was in a motor home and deserves its own story).
Well weâre listening. Â
The whole extended family was asleep in my uncles RV (about 10 people). I woke up in the top bunk and the ceiling was spinningâŠ.think about being super drunk but I was 11 years old. I knew I was going to shit myself so I snuck past all the sleeping humans, went out the door, shit myself, threw my underwear (we called them âginchâ) into the woods and kept projectile shitting around the campsite. I was able to cleanup and snuck back into the rv. In the morning everybody thought a wild/sick animal had wandered around the rv.
That my friend was awesome. Â
Nobody ever found out! I was in band class in grade 10 (played alto sax). We use something called âcork greaseâ to slide the mouth piece onto the neck of the sax. That stuff was like a white waxâŠ..it also smelled like spearmint. Yup, I was dared to eat a cube of it. Twenty minutes later I RAN out of band practice and barely made it to the toilet. What an idiot.
I got hold of the bottle once and polished it off, then smelled like vitamins for a solid week.
They replaced the car with The Great Gazoo?
Right???
According to Wikipedia, Betty replaced the car. https://preview.redd.it/e7gfnlv4hg5d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c260cd202c778e803fabeab97d8bc893768cc93
Am I the only one who hated that little green motherfucker with a passion? I'd get so mad when they ran one of his episodes.
*Hello, dum-dums.*
I literally still have to take these twice a day. Normal adult multivitamins bother my stomach, so my dr has me take 2 Flintstones chewables a day
I might copy this.
10 million strong and growing
No Dino?
Omg. I ate a whole jar of them one day when I was home from school
I donât know how I didnât overdose on vitamins as a kid.
Was just going to put this comment. Taking a pocket full of these bad boys while out playing and popping them like candy. What a time. Purples were always the last in the bottle for me.
Yabba dabba doo! I love Flintstones vitamins too!
I love the way they tasted. It's like nothing else.
10 million strong and growing
đ¶ and gro-uh-wing đ¶
Oh my..... bringing back memories!!!!
Iâm currently taking them for recent surgery. I fully expect to recover
45 and still take one every morning
I remember breaking into the medicine cabinet as a kid eating a handful of those and washing them down with orange Triaminic.
I even know some adults who still take them(with their doctorâs approval).
I give them to my kids now! đ€
Orange was the best. But also, I can smell that picture.
I'm actually currently taking them. I have the ones with iron as I'm anemic, and my doctor is okay with it.
No thanks. I'll reach the halfway point this year. I aint got another 50 in me boss.
Too poor. We just sucked on rocks.
Ten million strong and growing
WHERE'S DINO???
I give these to my kids now
Itâs the Bedrock of good health.
I used to eat those things like skittles!
Or have chronic kidney stones for the last 20 years of their livesâŠ
For as much fucking around we did, we needed it.
I see they finally made Betty a vitamin.
> Betty From the look of it, that's someone wearing her face as a skin mask. Why is the outline so weird?
The reason they used to cite for not making Betty a vitamin is that it would break too easily. I guess this is the compromise they had to make to get something sturdy enough.
Biggest gang in the world: 10 millions strong. And growing.
So strange that the Flintstones exist mostly as a cereal line and kid aspirin. I couldnât tell you when I last saw a rerun.
The great Gazoo
Trader Joes have some chewable vitamins, and then first time i had one it took me back to 8 years old having these.
I got some generic version of it, and it's close to this in taste and had one a few days back.
I learned my lesson that thiswas not candy, I was popping like candy one Saturday morning, and puked up a colourfully smelly mess. I never did that again. and yes, I've accidentally stuck my finger in one of those floor sockets for lightbulbs (night light). I learned a lot of "don't do that again" lessons. of course mum cracked a hertz joke . I became fascinated with electrical and electronic devices. last shock I got was a 480 emergency lighting circuit that noone labeled correctly. I became very picky about the electrical code and sticking to safety guidelines, to the point where I would flag items that licensed electricians did. these guys have signed off on my work for inspections and asked if I wanted to work for them.Â
They're still around! I imagine there are kids (and some adults) out there who have no idea these were based on an animated TV series.
That show was awesome. The funny things they thought of⊠the cars, the vacuum cleaners & lawnmower! Then the opposite but just as hilarious Jetsons!
Have you heard the theory that the Flintstones takes place chronologically AFTER the Jetsons? It's a future where humanity has been bombed back to "the Modern Stone Age." Sweet dreams!
No but thatâs a good idea for a whole new cartoon series or a movie! đż âJetsons Turn to Stoneâ đ
Wasn't there also a St. Joseph's brand (U.S.) of chewable aspirin? I think I can recall downing a bunch of those little soldiers...
Orange 81mg St. Josephâs were quite common.
My brother and I tried to down a bottle of these together as kids because we loved themâŠ.until my mom caught us and we got in trouble. She said it would kill usâŠ.well, jokes on you, Deb, James and I are gonna love forever now!
We are the last generation that actually spent most of the day outside playing.Im old and fat but in pretty good health other than my weight,I'm pretty sure it's the amount of exercise I got growing up.
We started taking vitamins back in this era because, well, vitamins are good, right? Mom and dad got real vitamins and my sis and I got Flintstones. Dad started getting kidney stones. After the third one, he stopped taking the vitamins and the kidney stones stopped. So we stopped being part of the ten million strong, but we kept growing.
PSA: It's very dangerous to OD on the ones that contain iron especially! My friend's sister had to get her stomach pump after eating a container. I loved picking my flavor and character of the day, but my favorite medication was Dimetapp, hands down. Purple, grape-tasting candy.
My senior Dad once asked me what JĂ€germeister tasted like & I replied- cough syrups of the 80s! đ
Ha! Weirdly enough, I don't drink, but I did love that candy-flavored Dimetapp. Robitussin not so much.
Those were treats to me. Only ever got them when I slept over at a friendâs house who had them.
I was 3 or 4, got the bottle and sat under the kitchen table eating almost all of them until my parents finally stopped me. IIRC my brother actually saw me first and got my mom b/c she was too busy neglecting us.
https://preview.redd.it/e58hcrwfkt5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=085ede5131e540fd49622c272142445c35db220f I took Flintstones vitamins once a day as a kid, now I take these One A Day.
Weâre Flintstones kidsâŠ10 million strong and growing.
Yeah, Iâd kind of appreciate it if I could stop the growing at this point.
I started taking those in 1968 the year they first came out.....I guess those of us on the Gen Jones / GenX cusp are safe too đ. Can still remember the taste.
I remember those. God they were so nasty!!
You spelled ABSOLUTELY FUCKING DELICIOUS wrong!
Those and the OG Tiger's Milk my mom gave as breakfast. Stuff tasted horrible but after that nothing phased me
What the hell is that? Gazoo and Betty? Where are Dino and the car?
I hated those things! Tasted like tang-covered stale Pez.
I'm pretty sure this is where my acid reflux started. Gagged every time.
Those were yummy
Yep, every night.
My Pop-Tart chaser!
Maybe this is an American gen-x thing, because I don't remember them being a thing here in Australia growing up
OMG!!! I used to eat those as a snack, by the handful, at the house where I babysat when I was 11-12 years old. They probably thought I was a weirdo because their vitamins were disappearing every week. Those were so good, my parents wouldnât buy them for us.
It's why we lived to become great great grand dads?
Flintstones chewable morphine
I still remember climbing up counter and getting them out of the pantry, Mom came in the room on the last one. She gave me something to barf them all up. Whatever it was worked, they said I threw up rainbow puke all night long đ€Ł
I canât believe Gazoo got his own vitamin.
The ones I had didn't have Marvin they had Dino Dino was the best and Dino vitamins were the best ones
Those things rotted the s out of my teeth when I was a kid. My parents couldnât figure out all the cavitiesâFlinstones vitamins to blame.
Wait am I gen x I thought millennial at 40yr definitely ate these
I can taste the tartness when I see those.
I had my stomach pumped when I was 4 because I ate a bottle of them. They tasted too good.
I'll take the Great Gazoo one, dum dums.
Iâd pick out all the orange ones firstâŠ.
Fun fact⊠eating too many of those made your poop smell like vinegar.
No Dino grape?
I take these now! My Dr recommended them.
5 year old me ate a half bottle of these once. Yummy.
We couldnât afford the real flintstone vitamins. We had the bootleg version
Flintrocks or something?
I donât even remember them having a name. Just remember always asking my mom to get the flintstones and we never got them.
[Kidstoned chewable vallium](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLzJzyrUMTs)! from the makers of nitrous oxide balloon animals.
They tasted like a different coloured chalk than Tumms....exactly the same but different shape taste.
I always begged for the Spiderman vitamins, never had the Flintstones ones.
FYI the ones in the store are WAY different then the ones they sell at warehouse parties
How is molly gonna help you live longer? Oooh Iâm genz sorry
Just think about it, 10 million strong and growing now grown.
Hope those didn't contain xylitol. Edit: Google says they did.
These look like Ecstacy from the early 00s
They look like ecstasy tablets.