lesson learned: don't fuck with medicinal tea

[Baliset]

so i bought some Throat Coat tea since my roomate was sick and had throat problems and i wanted some preventive measures to be taken in case i got sick.

i was curious about the taste of the medicinal tea and so i made myself a cup of it before bed last night.

it actually tasted pretty good but it had a really strong reaction hitting my throat but i felt fine and eventually i fell asleep.

this morning i woke up and my whole throat and upper chest feels really weird, not like i am sick but it feels almost like it does when i am sick. this is freaky.

 

[xfer]

Where can I get this throat coat shit?

 

[Baliset]

i got mine at Whole Foods so any bread and circus or whole foods will suffice.

 

[xfer]

i'll stop at whole foods on the way home.

 

[minxnim]

greg, that tea shouldn't give you that reaction! it may be that you've just happened to have caught what your roommate had maybe? i think throat coat is just some basic herbs and slippery elm? poor you.

 

[Baliset]

well i feel alright now. i thought maybe it was a reaction to the tea working on a non-sick throat.

 

[xfer]

update: i have left work and at home right now, drinking THROAT COMFORT tea from whole foods (i couldn't find anything called "Throat Coat"). it has slippery elm and, unfortunately, licorice (yuck) as active ingredients. among other things.

 

[xfer]

update: this tea kind of tastes like snails. it's not bad.

 

[minxnim]

licorice is good because it stops any cough you have, and prevents you from developing those annoying tickling coughs later.

 

[xfer]

yyyeah but licorice tastes bad. fortunately, this tea doesn't taste very licoricey.

 

[xfer]

ok UPDATE: the tea is TOTALLY WORKING. my throat feels pretty good.

but my lips are really weirdly slippery. wtf? i guess thats the throat-coating factor?

 

[Steve]

that's not the tea, that's because you're wearing lipstick.

 

[lizard]

but my lips are really weirdly slippery. wtf? i guess thats the throat-coating factor?

omg alex is frothing at the mouth!

 

[xfer]

...yes steve...

 

[Steve]

 

[azal]

where was I when this thread needed a throat coating joke?

 

[Steve]

in a bar?