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/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.