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Boiled 7 Up

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  • #62
    eVeNtInE
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  • #63
    jester77
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    I used to get a hot Paddy when I was sick. So innocent back then, used to hate it :eek:


  • #64
    anniehoo
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    Blisterman wrote: »
    Does sprite work as well, or is it only 7up?
    Has to be the real thing or the placebo effect doesnt work :D
    Tri wrote: »

    I don't think I was ever lucky enough to have been given a 'labelled' drink like 7up. It was most likely boiled KVI white lemonade.:)

    U knew someone was in bits in our house when 7up was in the fridge..we didnt have fancy designer soft drinks (it was the 80s)..and TK just didnt quite cut it!


  • #65
    Piste
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    I read some article (no I can't link ,I don't remember where I read it!) saying there is absolutely no medical reason to give people 7-Up when they're sick. It doesn't replace electrolytes, you'd need something like Dioralyte for that, all it is is glucose giving people back a bit of energy!


  • #66
    smellslikeshoes
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    Piste wrote: »
    I read some article (no I can't link ,I don't remember where I read it!) saying there is absolutely no medical reason to give people 7-Up when they're sick. It doesn't replace electrolytes, you'd need something like Dioralyte for that, all it is is glucose giving people back a bit of energy!

    Its basically just sugar water really, The point of 7up when sick is just an easy way to get some fluids and a bit of energy into kids. I think the reason why 7up is used is because it tastes a lot more neutral than say flat coke, not to mention it looks like water so you almost subconsciously would keep it down over some other soft drink.


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  • #67
    Moon_Eyes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭Moon_Eyes


    Yep My Mam boiled or shook it too for us when we were sick, check this courtesy of Wikipedia I think they should have kept the original name... it's pretty cool! The original ingredients would've had the good stuff in it back then, Ihighly doubt the stuff they're churning out now has any magical properties atall, it's been reformulated lots of times to lose all the effective stuff in it, the killjoys!

    History
    7 Up was created by Charles Leiper Grigg who launched his St. Louis-based company The Howdy Corporation in 1920.[1] Grigg came up with the formula for a lemon-lime soft drink in 1929. The product, originally named "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", was launched two weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929.[1] It contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug. It was one of a number of patent medicine products popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries; they made claims similar to today's health foods. Specifically it was marketed as a hangover cure. The product's name was soon changed to 7 Up.[1]
    The Great Depression was just the beginning of the business challenges the product would face. In its early years, there were around 600 lemon-lime beverage brands being sold in the US.[1] 7 Up was able to survive and become the market leader in the category by being one of the first to be nationally distributed as well as being marketed as more healthy than other soft drinks.I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"]citation needed[/URL][/I
    The success of 7 Up led Grigg to rename his company to "The Seven Up Company" in 1936.[1]
    Lithium citrate was removed from 7 Up's formula in 1950.
    Expanding the brand beyond a niche market, major competitors began to set their sights on it such as The Coca-Cola Company (Coke) with its Sprite brand introduced in 1961. Sprite would not challenge 7 Up's position seriously until the 1980s when Coke forced its major bottlers, then distributing 7 Up, to drop the beverage in deference to Sprite. 7 Up challenged Coke's actions in court as "anti-competitive", a challenge they eventually lost.[5]


  • #68
    sharkey07
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    Thefirestarter wrote: »
    Is it just me or did anyone elses parents give them boiled 7 up when they were not well? Seems to work when the oul' stomach is giving trouble or after you puke


    :D was just on the phone to my mam and was telling her that i have a bit of an upset stomach....what do ya think her recommedation was??

    You got it! Boiled 7up! :) hehe


  • #69
    poisonated
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    I was given it whenever I wasn't feeling well.It wasn't boiled though...that would be horrible ha.


  • #70
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,239 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    I was given it with some sugar added to decarbonize it.

    Any time I drink 7UP now it makes me feel sick


  • #71
    barakus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭barakus


    We used to get coca cola and milk mixed in equal quantities...think the folks used to drink it when they were hungover as well. Its not as bad as it sounds!!


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  • #72
    The Big Red Button
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    We got ours luke-warm ... we used to pretend to be sick sometimes just so we'd get it, coz there were never fizzy drinks in the house otherwise!

    One time when I was sick, mother took some notion to try me with with warmed up Ribena instead ... it brought on 24 hours of purple projectile vomiting. I haven't been able to drink the stuff since, I feel queasy if I even smell it!


  • #73
    AlmightyCushion
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    poisonated wrote: »
    I was given it whenever I wasn't feeling well.It wasn't boiled though...that would be horrible ha.

    Oh it's no though. It tastes absolutely lovely.


  • #74
    MizzLolly
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    Blisterman wrote: »
    Does sprite work as well, or is it only 7up?

    I think all fizzy, sugary drinks help. Last year when I got run down and dehydrated, the nurse told me to drink as much 7up and Coke as I could stand. I was told to take a week off of college and work and get lotsa bed rest. The fizzy drinks were a bonus because I didn't feel guilty for drinking them :p


  • #75
    mantaraver
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    Dunno about 7up but when I was siick as a nipper, me old man would always bring home a bottle of lucozade, the glass bottle that came wrapped in the orange plastic... remember them. Great stuff it was.:)


  • #76
    Wossack
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    Peared wrote: »
    Yes, yes but what's a honey dispenser called?

    honey dipper


  • #77
    pablomakaveli
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    My parents use to give me boiled 7 up whenever i had a stomach bug. It actually tastes very nice and did help settle my stomach a bit.


  • #78
    pebbles21
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    my mother used to give me Andrews liver salts :( worked though:)


  • #79
    ven0m
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    Yeah, I remember Warm 7up ..... & as I recall from my childhood, it fixed upset stomachs a treat ...... 7up however doesn't taste the same as it used to these days .......


  • #80
    mobius42
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    Why is it that Sprite was never sold here until relatively recently? The other Pepsi brands aren't that popular here, so I'm curious as to how 7UP got so dominant.


  • #81
    Blisterman
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    It was defintitly around in the early 90's. Then it became hard to find for a few years until around 2000, when it was everywhere again.


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  • #82
    annabellee77
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    Boiled 7-Up....flat 7-Up etc.....:eek:

    Where were my parents when the knowledge of these magical cures were being handed out! :(

    Never heard anything like it in my life! :)


  • #83
    Ruu_Old
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    7-Up with no fizz was the Irish Mammies remedy to everything. :)


  • #84
    IvyTheTerrible
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    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    My parents use to give me boiled 7 up whenever i had a stomach bug. It actually tastes very nice and did help settle my stomach a bit.

    Never heard of it boiled til now! My dad used to pass 7 up from one glass to another and back til it went flat. Worked a treat!


  • #85
    petes
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    When I was in hospital it was all over the place.


  • #86
    seanybiker
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    bit of sugar in 7up cures everything. Best stuff ever.


  • #87
    annabellee77
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    Ruu wrote: »
    7-Up with no fizz was the Irish Mammies remedy to everything. :)
    IvyTheTerrible wrote: »
    Never heard of it boiled til now! My dad used to pass 7 up from one glass to another and back til it went flat. Worked a treat!
    seanybiker wrote: »
    bit of sugar in 7up cures everything. Best stuff ever.



    Actually come to think of it.... I do have a vague recollection of being given small bottles of white lemonade..... that must be a Waterford thing :D


  • #88
    Jeebus
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    serenacat wrote: »
    i have too much once and puked

    Then posted on boards.


  • #89
    CR 7
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    Pffft, flat 7-up.

    The real cure for anything cold related is boiled 7-up used in the makings of lemsip, instead of the boiled water. Also requires copious amounts of honey.;););)


  • #90
    Wossack
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    the_pm_of_17 wrote: »
    Pffft, flat 7-up.

    The real cure for anything cold related is boiled 7-up used in the makings of lemsip, instead of the boiled water. Also requires copious amounts of honey.;););)

    inducing a diabetic coma is no cure for a cold


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  • #91
    gerrycollins
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    my child was ill recently not eating and doing loads of no. 2's etc so my mam said that the family doctor use to reccomend boiled coca cola.

    Now my mam at best of times hated the stuff near the house but we got it when we were ill and I gave it to my 2 yrd old daughter and it cured her right up next day.


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