Junk
Mmmmm... Artificial!
08 Aug 2008 12:36 AM
It
seemed for a while everyone in Sydney had the flu quite badly. It
got bad, then better and then all of a sudden it would hit back
with vengeance for all of the cough syrup and chicken soup that you
threw at it. I was sick for almost two months!
My chesty cough was Benadryl Chesty Forte with a new berry flavour. Mostly because it was the only one I could find that was non-drowsy at any of the pharmacies I went to. Benadryl is Australia’s number one choice too, or at least it is according to the website. I was never sure if it actually made a difference scientifically or if it was just a placebo but from time to time the cough did seem a little less than with out it.
Luckily I had a chesty cough and not a dry cough. The dry cough Benadryl is a disgusting butter-menthol flavour. Who likes butter-menthol anyway and why make cough syrup even worse than it is?
As for the flavour, still try and wash this stuff down quickly but the initial shock you get from normal cough syrups isn’t there with this stuff. Don’t get me wrong though, its still bad but not what you remember from being a kid. The pain hits your sour taste buds at the back and to the sides of your tongue and then the bitter right at the back.
My chesty cough was Benadryl Chesty Forte with a new berry flavour. Mostly because it was the only one I could find that was non-drowsy at any of the pharmacies I went to. Benadryl is Australia’s number one choice too, or at least it is according to the website. I was never sure if it actually made a difference scientifically or if it was just a placebo but from time to time the cough did seem a little less than with out it.
Luckily I had a chesty cough and not a dry cough. The dry cough Benadryl is a disgusting butter-menthol flavour. Who likes butter-menthol anyway and why make cough syrup even worse than it is?
As for the flavour, still try and wash this stuff down quickly but the initial shock you get from normal cough syrups isn’t there with this stuff. Don’t get me wrong though, its still bad but not what you remember from being a kid. The pain hits your sour taste buds at the back and to the sides of your tongue and then the bitter right at the back.
Benadryl Chesty Forte - Berry
Flavour
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Slumming It
29 Feb 2008 06:01 PM
Okay, we all get those moments when we
just can't be fcked making dinner and those times I usually try and
fall back on a healthy alternative, like sushi or just a light
sandwich with lots of salad and a little bit of ham and mayo. Even
simpler, I'll just crack open a tin of baked beans or pick up a
salad from David Jones on my way home.
Tonight, I'm not going to have one of those healthy alternatives. I'm really slumming it. About as bad as you can get. Dominos. From a technical point of view I really have to appreciate their online ordering system, pick, build or customize your pizzas, sides add a voucher code and the system goes and checks your local store to see if they have the capacity to take your order. When they do the order is placed and a pretty accurate timer starts to count down from when the order is placed, to it being made, baked and delivered. The only time it gets a bit whackey is when you ask for the pizza to be delivered at a specific time. Sure it gets delivered pretty much ton time but it doesn't show you when they've started to make it onwards.
It obviously doesn't check the store's stock levels, a few minutes after I placed my order I got a phone call from the store telling me they'd run out of the thin and crispy bases and asked if I'd like classic instead. I didn't really, but what choice did I have? I'd decided to try the new "7 meats" and "chicken feast". No doubt I could have made these taste a thousand times better and with a thousand times less fat but when you're tired and don't want to get off the couch can you blame me?
Thei chicken feast was quite bland, just the slightest hint of flavour from the capsicum and so was the 7 meats for that matter, just the saltiness from cheap bacon. I got what I expected. Nothing but that sick full feeling and the thought I should have just had a sandwich.
Tonight, I'm not going to have one of those healthy alternatives. I'm really slumming it. About as bad as you can get. Dominos. From a technical point of view I really have to appreciate their online ordering system, pick, build or customize your pizzas, sides add a voucher code and the system goes and checks your local store to see if they have the capacity to take your order. When they do the order is placed and a pretty accurate timer starts to count down from when the order is placed, to it being made, baked and delivered. The only time it gets a bit whackey is when you ask for the pizza to be delivered at a specific time. Sure it gets delivered pretty much ton time but it doesn't show you when they've started to make it onwards.
It obviously doesn't check the store's stock levels, a few minutes after I placed my order I got a phone call from the store telling me they'd run out of the thin and crispy bases and asked if I'd like classic instead. I didn't really, but what choice did I have? I'd decided to try the new "7 meats" and "chicken feast". No doubt I could have made these taste a thousand times better and with a thousand times less fat but when you're tired and don't want to get off the couch can you blame me?
Thei chicken feast was quite bland, just the slightest hint of flavour from the capsicum and so was the 7 meats for that matter, just the saltiness from cheap bacon. I got what I expected. Nothing but that sick full feeling and the thought I should have just had a sandwich.
Dominos Seven Meats
Pizza