r/mildlyinfuriating • u/marcus_dobre_lover • 18h ago

I just wanted a hot dog Mom bought 150 lemons.

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She randomly comes back with a butt load of food items once in a while

Any lemon recipe suggestions

\she’s 44, for people asking her age\.

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u/Beautiful_Lie629 14h ago

My grandmother made homemade cough syrup by mixing 1/3 lemon juice, 1/3 honey, and 1/3 whisky. My mother told me that it worked well! A sleep aid for the kids too! This was around 1930, I suppose they were lucky they weren't given over-the-counter opioids.

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u/michaelyup 14h ago

That’s a Hot Toddy. Good for what ails ya! Just repeat until you feel no pain.

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u/alady12 9h ago

You are still sick, but you don't care.

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u/floorplanner2 3h ago

When my mom was little, she was given Hot Toddies by her German mother. This was in the '30s-'40s and she remembered never really caring that she was sick. She grew up to be a non-drinker, surprisingly enough.

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u/mellow0324 14h ago

Add steaming hot water to that mix and you have a drink called hot toddy. I swear by it in the winter for colds, sore throats, headaches, etc.

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u/FreddyNoodles 12h ago

They are excellent. I introduced my Swedish bf to them when he got a really nasty flu one year while we were in Stockholm. He started drinking them just for enjoyment in the winter. They really do help, imo.

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u/Powerful_Frame_4239 10h ago

My husband gives these the unappetising name of “homemade lemsip”

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u/Difficult_Ask_1686 9h ago

I’m happy it helps. He probably feels no pain all winter.

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u/wiscosherm 10h ago

When I was a kid and had a bad cold or sore throat my mom would make a hot toddy heavy on the honey and lighter on the whiskey. I would take about two swallows and and then decide I wanted a nap. She would finish the rest. Looking back on it it was an absolutely brilliant way to get a sick whiny kid to sleep.

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u/redditcancelculture 9h ago

Y'all's mother's are amateurs.

My mom would give me hot toddy's light on the Whiskey, honey, and water and heavy on the tussin.

It worked so well I slept straight through the divorce.

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u/LickingSmegma Mamaleek are king 12h ago

You can make an excellent cure for colds and sore throats by carving a funnel out of a radish root and filtering honey through it. The resulting liquid tastes so extraordinarily foul that the body goes belligerently berserk on the illness for fear of getting the evil and depraved treatment again. I hated this atrocity of a concoction without reserve, but it helped every time.

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u/Flashy_Trash6771 8h ago

Dying!🤣🤣🤣

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u/multipocalypse 11h ago

If you add a packet of Theraflu, a packet of instant apple cider (lots of vitamin C) and a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, it works even better 😆

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u/donttextspeaktome 10h ago

Add a cinnamon stick for extra flavor

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u/Ready_Revolution5023 4h ago

We make ours with Throat Coat tea - it’s actually super helpful for my musician husband when he has to perform when he has a sore throat.

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u/Vegetable-Hand-6770 13h ago

This still works with my kid, i just cut out the lemon and honey.

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u/Suspicious-Water-973 12h ago

I was at a friends house (many years ago) and was feeling a bit rough. Her mother (French) took pity on me and made me a drink - warm milk, vanilla, little bit of sugar and a large splash of brandy. After that I wasn’t sure if I fancied the mum or the daughter more…

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u/NoDay4343 12h ago

There is scientific evidence backing up both honey and lemon as cough treatment. It won't cure it but it does soothe it. Alcohol in cough syrups was, I believe, primarily included as a solvent. But the fact is that it can be a sleep aid of sorts (helps you fall asleep but reduces the quality of your sleep), and if a cough is keeping you awake, that's useful. Low quality sleep is better than no sleep. My mother only used the lemon honey, no alcohol, but I can attest that it works surprisingly well. I still use it.

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u/Clean-Fisherman-4601 12h ago

My mom would give us tea with lemon, honey and whiskey when we had a cold. Having a cold wasn't as unpleasant with that concoction.

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u/Useful-Emphasis-6787 12h ago

I think gripe water previously had alcohol, given to colic babies. And people used to rub babies gums with alcohol or something when they were teething.

People were truly wild back then.

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u/Suspicious_Bear42 9h ago

Anecdotal, but I can verify. I'm an 80s baby, and my parents still have the bottle of brandy they used on my gums while I was teething.

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u/Suspicious-Water-973 2h ago

4-9% alcohol

You can still get something similar for teething (at least in the UK) - Anbesol - lidocaine and alcohol to rub on the gums. There is an adult version as wells

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u/Accomplished_Will226 11h ago

It still works. Well I would not give kids the whisky but my MIL made the same remedy.

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u/bookworthy 10h ago

My great-great grandfather had a patented liniment which called for “tincture of opium”. So you might still hurt all over, but maybe you wouldn’t care?

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u/Any_Poet4127 9h ago

The only OTC opiods around then were weak codeine mixtures and addiction/overdose was a well known phenomena by then so I doubt your great grandmother would give her crazy amounts. There are much worse things you can give someone with a cough 🤷

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u/Difficult_Ask_1686 9h ago

My grandmother did that in the 70s. She’s from WV.

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u/tourchy2 8h ago

Double the whiskey and shake with ice and you have a Goldrush

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u/edgerton2026 8h ago

We were. Paregoric for tummy aches. Made you fell warm all over. 1950s-60s.

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u/MuchGrounded 7h ago

We were given this growing up. My Dad mixed it up calling it ‘Honey whiskey and lemon’. Yes it did make you sleepy this was in the 70s.

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u/bellegroves 6h ago

Yeah, my grandma and her teetotaler bestie both kept whiskey on hand for hot toddies. Straight up lemon when your throat is already sore just sounds like torture.

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u/Born-Substance-1987 5h ago

Whiskey is medicine but when I try to get my FSA to pay for it I suddenly have a problem.

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u/highknees69 5h ago

Ahh, the Irish cough syrup.

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 4h ago

It was more like, shut these kids up, here take this! My stupid friend use to give her daughter nyquil for the same reason! 🤬

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u/BravestBlossom 4h ago

My great grandmother had a cough syrup, which is pour peach schnapps into a small (shot) glass, and sip as slowly as possible.

It's perfect. Soothes the throat and chills you out😂😉

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u/tequila_23_sheila 2h ago

My dad would give me a Hot Toddy as a child. Only thing, alcohol is stimulant for me, so it didn’t put me to sleep. 😅 Today, it’s still the only I go for to set me body straight when all ails me! ☘️✨

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u/wannastayhome 33m ago

cough cough ...cough cough… 🍋 🍯 🥃

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u/Aleja72 28m ago

Mine too! It totally works 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

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u/Former_Matter49 9m ago

My grandma poured this same recipe into hot tea. She called it the Two Hat Cure. You put your hat on the bedpost, lie back, and sip tea until you see two hats. LOL

You can tell it's an older cure. Who has a hat and a bedpost? Still works though