Big, Strong And Healthy?

[gness]

Hoppy's food bank thread has reminded me of all the miracle supplements we had to take as children to make us big, strong and healthy.

I hated the cod liver oil off a spoon but at least I was always first for the spoon......my siblings down the line got cod liver oil and dribble from everyone in front.
Malt extract with cod liver oil was preferable when it arrived in our kitchen.

I loved the little bottles of orange we collected from the clinic......I guess those were free or with coupons?

Every night my father who came from a family of big tall strong and fit folk would line us up for a small glass of Guinness frothed up with milk and sugar.

The worst was when my mother went through a long period of giving us a square of Brooklax/Exlax....can't recall which......every day.
Once, not able to swallow it, I climbed on the sitting room windowsill and spat it out through the little top window. The wind caught it and the goo was still sliding down the window when my mother came in..... :-(

I'm fairly healthy....very strong.....but god knows what happened to the big and tall bit.......x

[Mexican18]

I remember something called Virol. It tasted horrible!

[ummmm]

I wasn't given any supplements. Maybe I was a neglected child :-)

[spathiphyllum]

the dripple from everyone in front kept their immune systems in good workout mode, sounds rather healthy ;)

I can't imagine swallowing any time of oil, let alone cod oil how vile. At least pop a capsule round that oil! I guess capsules weren't invented back then.. Maybe in time.

Thankfully the only horrific medicinal child thing i had to ever injest was that grim power known as dioralyte. Usually after i have had a runny poop.

[nescio]

I didn't mind cod liver oil, but Virol - cod liver oil with malt - I found utterly disgusting. I grew up (some say that is debatable) to be a strapping 6'1", 18st prop forward.

[Mamyalynne]

Loved Virol and even today I pop both cod liver oil and halibut oil capsules when I take them.

Welfare Orange was yummy.

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1957/dec/02/welfare-foods-orange-juice

[ladybirder]

I loved the orange juice we used to get in those little bottles. I'd buy it now if I could.

[Mexican18]

We were also made to eat brewers yeast tablets every morning. I quite liked those.

[MargoTester]

I loved Virol but wasn't so keen on Syrup of Figs which was administered on a Friday night 'to keep you're bowels open'. I seem to remember something called Haliborange too

[woofgang]

Apparently I loved Virol when I was a baby but hated the smell as I grew older. My parents weren't one for supplements and medicines but twice when I had what must have been post viral fatigue, I got a "tonic' from the doctor which tasted delicious...I am guessing it was a multivitamin syrup.

[Sqad]

Minodex .......woofy.

[237SJ]

We had a big jar of Radio Malt and I loved that. We also had Haliborange which wasn't bad. I don't think I`ve ever tried cod liver oil.

[gness]

Interesting, Mamya...thank you...x

Never had Virol.

237.....You'd know if you had tried cod liver oil.......takes little thought to bring back the taste.... :-(

[woofgang]

Sqad I don't think it was branded on the bottle....just a white label that said something like "the tonic, one dessertspoonful twice daily" I think chemists then used to have big bottles of it and just decant it into smaller ones...this would have been late 50's early 60's

[woofgang]

i think both Virol and Radio Malt were malt extract.

[-SharonA-]

I loved the malt extract but hated the cold liver oil. I remember the orange in the bottles too, lovely and sweet.

[marval]

The only thing I remember being given was liquid paraffin. It was meant to help me go to the loo easier. I used to love the taste.

[gness]

Just on a Friday night, Margo?......What happened on the other six?.... ;-)

[MargoTester]

Mother didn't want me 'taken short' at school. You'd have liked her Gness.

[gness]

I think I would, Margo......I like her thinking.....My mother would have chosen Sunday night.... :-(

[Tilly2]

Not a supplement, I know but my mum used to use copious amounts of butter. We had butter on almost everything.

It was always what she called 'best butter', never maggyann. (margerine)