Tag: flu

One fond mem­o­ry is that of Smith Broth­ers Cough Drops, both Wild Cher­ry and Black Licorice. I loved those! In fact, that was the very first cough drop. Sad­ly, they have been dis­con­tin­ued. (For those of you inter­est­ed in mar­ket­ing: By chance, the word “Trade” appeared under the pic­ture of William & the word “Mark” under that of Andrew. Thus, it hap­pened by a mere coin­ci­dence that the famous Smith Broth­ers’ trade­mark was born and the Smith Broth­ers became known to gen­er­a­tions of Amer­i­cans as Trade & Mark.)

Anoth­er favorite, and I don’t recall who made them, was  a long hard candy-​type cough drop with a pecu­liar honey-​horsehound-​medicinal fla­vor. They were a brown­ish col­or & tast­ed so bad they were deli­cious­ly addicting.