These cough drops my mom gave me that I thought tasted funny
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  • 433 points livelaughlesbianz

    i would like to know what 10 drops = 1 fruit means

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    195 points NYanae555

    food portions for people using diabetic meal planning. 1 drop = negligible calories. 10 drops are equivalent to 1 serving of fruit in terms of calories.

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    35 points butteredpotatos

    *carbohydrates

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    1 points CupboardofCurious

    Also, 1 Drop literally means 1 Cough Drop.

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    -3 points grafknives

    Great math :D

    10 x 0 = 1

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    3 points BrutalSledgehammer

    Do you mean that fruit = 0 calories?

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    1 points generic1234321

    High fibre fruit can have a pretty negligible effect on blood sugar

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    1 points BrutalSledgehammer

    On blood sugar spikes, the sugar intake is the same, it just keeps stable and the glucose is used up for longer, which allows time for the body to process it better. Which, yes, is mostly the concern when it comes to diabetes. But generally speaking, different fruits have widely different amounts of fructose, and the more water and fiber, the less caloric and prone to cause your blood sugar to spike. It doesn't necessarily mean they have negligible calories though, if that's a concern for the person. The more water they have, the least calories (also most fibers are not digested so they don't count for caloric intake or carbohydrates either)

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    -7 points grafknives

    No, please follow the lesson.

    one drop = zero

    ten drops = one.

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    7 points BrutalSledgehammer

    Oh. No, it's more like 1 drop 0.1, 10 drops 1. Eating 1/10 of fruit is not harmful for a diabetic (in general, depending on the fruit and diabetic person), hence why is not accounted for. They fail to provide safe thresholds between though, because I'm pretty sure 9 would already warrant something

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    47 points chek-yo-cookies

    For diabetics. There is a system where you can swap/exchange foods for other foods based on their blood sugar impact. Ten cough drops have the same blood sugar impact as one serving of fruit. Just one cough drop is small enough to be ignored and so is a "free exchange"

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    6 points withbellson

    The plague that’s been going around has me on about 2 fruit exchanges per day.

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    35 points Curious_Papaya2284

    Or one drop = free exchange?

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    4 points Sharing_Violation

    I just stared at this label for entirely too long myself...

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  • 76 points VanHalenimitator

    That’s nothing. Just getting fermented! Let sit for 10 more years. Then they will be ready for anything

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    14 points EyeBreakThings

    Honestly, even that is unlikely. Not enough moisture. Chances are there is nothing biological that could have grown on it. Really the only "issue" is oxidation causing it to taste "stale" and losing effectiveness. If it was a hard lozenge, it might absorb some moisture from the air and become gooey.

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  • 33 points into_outdoors

    My parents did the same.

    There was some scary old packaged food in the pantry, but their medicine cabinet was 10 times worse. Decades old stuff.

    Not at all out of necessity, just the mindset of someone born in the 1930s U.S.

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    7 points thegingermullet

    My mother has this notion that mustard doesn’t expire. She says I’m wasting when I buy a new bottle because hers is 1+ years old.

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    7 points UncleFuzzySlippers

    MIL doesnt think sticks of butter go bad. Yes the butter tastes rancid. Shes also told me “ive never had food poisoning in my life.” I refuse to eat anything with butter in it at their house because i know ill just be violently evacuating my intestines shortly after.

    Also noted that they never bat an eye at the fact the refrigerator is maintaining a steady 50°.

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  • 27 points ComedianNice4051

    But did your cough go away? 🗣️

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  • 9 points StarWhole7999

    Check the date know your grandma's pepper she uses for cooking

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    3 points WeirdDogLadyIsHere

    I did that once. It had expired before I was born.

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  • 9 points Living_Mushroom_4986

    My mom had vanilla that expired in 2011, mind you we moved houses 3 times since 2011...

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    5 points broken-machine

    Vanilla extract is essentially vodka. It doesn’t expire.

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    2 points Living_Mushroom_4986

    I'm muslim xD So it was sure not vodka

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    1 points broken-machine

    If it was vanilla paste, maybe not. If it’s extract it 100% is.

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    3 points Living_Mushroom_4986

    I live in Saudi, we actually don't have any products that contain alcohol in them, so no it was not (yes it was a vanilla extract, forgot to add that in my original comment)

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    3 points broken-machine

    I was curious and looked that up. I’ll be, I guess that does exist.

    In Canada alcohol free is about twice the price though.

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    1 points Living_Mushroom_4986

    It's like 1.5 usd here for a 30ml bottle, but mainly we have/use powder!

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    2 points broken-machine

    I'm looking at around $11usd for 50ml. I suppose there's higher demand for it in your part of the world. It'll be marketed as a "health product" here.

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    1 points Living_Mushroom_4986

    Guess so🤔

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    1 points FlyAirLari

    What do you use for washer fluid?

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    1 points Living_Mushroom_4986

    Washer fluid? What's that?

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    1 points FlyAirLari

    For cars. When the windshield's dirty.

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    1 points Living_Mushroom_4986

    Ohhh I see what you're doing xD

    Isopropyl alcohol is different from Ethyl alcohol, we technically do have products that contains alcohol in them but they're not made for human consumption

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  • 8 points Nevermore_Novelist

    Just like the economy in 2008, your faith in your mom has now also collapsed.

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    1 points Sensitive_Steak_5737

    If it lasted that long, thats still more impressive than most.

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  • 5 points Gloomy-Restaurant-42

    If we factor for the average shelf life of these, that means these cough drops are very likely old enough to vote in US elections now.

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  • 5 points datboifranco

    When you expect throat relief and get existential crisis instead

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  • 5 points zml9494

    Oh, my, if I could go back to August 2008!

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  • 5 points bikedrivepaddlefly

    Were they fuzzy?

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    5 points Greenpaper92

    No. Oddly grainy in texture, though.

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    5 points rottingbeetlic

    Yeah, cough drops usually have moisture. The moisture will have run out of them and evaporated if left in the sun / crystallised inside.

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  • 4 points rottingbeetlic

    My grandma gave me cold sore cream from 2009.

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  • 3 points jfrigginp

    Those were gross when they were new.

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  • 2 points HoarseSeahorse

    Bush was still in the office.

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  • 2 points Goobing365

    I got so distracted my the exchange information that I didn’t see the 2008 for a minute. DAMN.

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  • 3 points No-Giraffe2305

    My mom does shit like this, she bought expired Nespresso pods from a neighbor for cheap that had been expired for 2 years and gave me some - I checked the expiration immediately and tossed them. I couldn’t do it, plus they came from a household I didn’t know. Double no for me. I know expiration dates don’t always mean anything but I’ve got ptsd from expired dressing, eggs, meats, etc that I found in the fridge that my parents told me was still good to eat that obviously smelled off. I’d rather throw it away than risk getting sick.

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  • 1 points Ding-DongSchlong

    I imagine she’s a grandma?

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  • 1 points Competitive_Help8485

    Was it still strong enough to calm your cough?

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  • 1 points ImTooSaxy

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  • 1 points PeskyChezky

    So if your cough was from 2008, they should’ve worked! Oh, it’s 2025. Never mind. I’m beginning to feel like Roseanne Rosanna Danna.

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  • 1 points Forward_Unto_Dawn42

    30 yr old diabetes meal planning guidance

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  • 1 points Cheese-Manipulator

    They need to age like fine wine.

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  • 1 points p1neapple_shark

    i’ve got a family friend with a little kitchenette in her basement filled to the brim with every snack and beverage you could ask for. it always looks so incredibly appealing until i look at some of the expiry dates. one was a juice box from 2014 🥀 i almost feel like i’d find these cough drops down there

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  • 1 points ImpressiveChance324

    Guess when mom give you the cough drops she never looked at the expiration date!

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  • 1 points Miserable_88

    Lol omg! That's so like my mom!

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  • 1 points Techienickie

    Did they still work? How's your cough?

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  • 1 points Sea-Appearance-5330

    Meh what's wrong with 18 year old cough drops?

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  • 1 points blognmail

    That was the exchange rate of fruit to drops in 2007/8

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  • 1 points thanosisawhore

    Jokes on you, i took 1 drop, 10 times for a free exchange

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  • 1 points with-extra-pickles

    It’s just the menthol. Back then they ground up leftover Kool Kings…

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  • 1 points Tough_Ad6566

    2008???

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  • 1 points Salt_Raisin_7509

    Also, expired in 2008.

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  • 1 points IsabelMalin

    American ingredient lists are so confusing?

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  • 1 points Pozitiv15

    Expired in 2008.

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  • 1 points GatzMaster

    What does any of that even mean?

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  • 1 points Maleficent_Theory818

    My mom had ketchup in her refrigerator that was eight years old. We discovered it when my daughter grabbed it for her daughter’s chicken nuggets. Poor baby didn’t get the ketchup that was older than she was.

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  • 1 points StableSpirited705

    Do cough drops ever really expire?!😅

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  • 0 points Acrobatic_Grand_9723
    A grandson approaches his grandmother and says, "Grandma, at school they teach us to tell only the truth, so I decided to confess to you. Last year I ate a jar of jam, and so you wouldn't notice, I took a crap in it..." The grandfather suddenly jumps up from his chair, hits the grandmother on the head, and yells, "I told you it was shit, but you turned it into candied crap, turned it into candied crap...
    
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  • -2 points hugh1000

    Commenting on These cough drops my mom gave me that I thought tasted funny...

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