Hot toddy!

[slim_boy_fat]

Well, it's warm & wet. We are still on the same topic arn't we?

Ohhhhh, yes [in a Churchill dog voice ].

 

[johnik]

Would you say the active ingredient is the chilli or Turmeric?

no idea, i have curry or chilli nearly every day and cant remember the last time i got cold / flu etc so i must be doing something right

 

[Parm]

i have curry or chilli nearly every day

Your a wrongun, lol

 

[Turbo]

My BIL worked through lockdown as a delivery driver to shops & supermarkets & stayed covid free. He put it down to having a whiskey every night to sterilise his insides!

 

[mike os]

You use a cheap ok single malt in hot toddy’s then drink the good single malt as a chaser… do you people know nothing?

 

[mart]

You use a cheap ok single malt in hot toddy’s then drink the good single malt as a chaser… do you people know nothing?

Well I don't know much about single malt except it is a bit expensive, and I have never seen some that I felt was cheap. What sort of price would be considered cheap for a 1 litre bottle?

 

[daleyd]

You use a cheap ok single malt in hot toddy’s then drink the good single malt as a chaser… do you people know nothing?

I’d be more inclined to stick the lemon in a g&t and then have a single malt chaser, but I fear that says more about me than my medicinal skills

 

[Bryan Williams]

If my granny was visiting and any of us kids had a cold/ flu. You got the boiling water and vic in the kitchen basin treatment, you learnt quick not to cough, sneeze infront of her! It did work though. Made your eyes water

My lad suffers hay fever and asthma. When he was little we used to camp in France holiday time. One year driving through rural areas he was really suffering, in the tent that night we could hear his hoarse breathing in bed, we were told to put s bowl of boiling water in the room, mix in a big blob of Vic, within minutes of the vapours filling the tent room we could hear his breathing turn to normal.
Great stuff.

 

[Migmac]

My lad suffers hay fever and asthma. When he was little we used to camp in France holiday time. One year driving through rural areas he was really suffering, in the tent that night we could hear his hoarse breathing in bed, we were told to put s bowl of boiling water in the room, mix in a big blob of Vic, within minutes of the vapours filling the tent room we could hear his breathing turn to normal.
Great stuff.

Another one is vic on the soles of your feet, put socks on go to bed. No coughing, sneezing, it work too

 

[daleyd]

Another one is vic on the soles of your feet, put socks on go to bed. No coughing, sneezing, it work too

My missus swears by that!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

...it's industrially refined highly processed sugar from China, tainted with antibiotics with the tiniest, microscopic amount of actual honey which is really only a nod to the semantic issue of labelling.

Do you have a bona fide source for this information? I'm not doubting what you write, in fact I think you're probably 100% accurate.

I have jars of 'honey' in the cupboard from both Lidl and Asda, the former labelled "Simply...Clear Honey" and the latter "Clear Honey" from their 'Just Essentials' range. Lidl label reads "blend of non-EU honey" and the Asda one "Product of China, packed in the UK for Asda".

If what you report is, in fact, the case I intend to contact both Companies seeking clarification in detail as to what their product(s) contain. Depending on the responses, it might be of interest to the ASA.....

Since I'm fending off a lurgy, my spleen could do with a good cleansing....

 

[slim_boy_fat]

The most effective toddy I ever had was made with dark rum, as I'd run out of whisky and was in need....

I'm not generally a rum drinker, but needs must.

 

[Rannsachair]

Another one is vic on the soles of your feet, put socks on go to bed. No coughing, sneezing, it work too

The wife has had me doing that for the last 11 days. Helps a bit though ended up seeing doc yesterday and now on antibiotics.

 

[Migmac]

The wife has had me doing that for the last 11 days. Helps a bit though ended up seeing doc yesterday and now on antibiotics.

Takes 11 days for me to get blood taken down here! The antibiotics will be better than vic

 

[Scalarocco]

Do you have a bona fide source for this information? I'm not doubting what you write, in fact I think you're probably 100% accurate.

I have jars of 'honey' in the cupboard from both Lidl and Asda, the former labelled "Simply...Clear Honey" and the latter "Clear Honey" from their 'Just Essentials' range. Lidl label reads "blend of non-EU honey" and the Asda one "Product of China, packed in the UK for Asda".

If what you report is, in fact, the case I intend to contact both Companies seeking clarification in detail as to what their product(s) contain. Depending on the responses, it might be of interest to the ASA.....

Since I'm fending off a lurgy, my spleen could do with a good cleansing....

The Honey (England) Regulations 2015

These Regulations, which apply in England, implement Council Directive 2001/110/EC relating to honey (OJ No L 10, 12.1.2002, p 47). They revoke and replace the Honey (England) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2243).

www.legislation.gov.uk

Looks like the spec sheet for honey. I think it will take a bit of going through!

 

[Cobbler]

I was told that honey was so far impossible to synthesise, that science was unable to work out the process it went through. I have no idea whether this is still true or not, but if anyone has cracked it & making it fraudulently…..

 

[Dr.Al]

Can't be properly synthesised apparently, but can be adulterated with additives so that the honey is less than 100% honey. Rather amusingly termed as "Honey Laundering".

 

[Screwdriver]

Do you have a bona fide source for this information? I'm not doubting what you write, in fact I think you're probably 100% accurate.

I have jars of 'honey' in the cupboard from both Lidl and Asda, the former labelled "Simply...Clear Honey" and the latter "Clear Honey" from their 'Just Essentials' range. Lidl label reads "blend of non-EU honey" and the Asda one "Product of China, packed in the UK for Asda".

If what you report is, in fact, the case I intend to contact both Companies seeking clarification in detail as to what their product(s) contain. Depending on the responses, it might be of interest to the ASA.....

Since I'm fending off a lurgy, my spleen could do with a good cleansing....

A quick Google should suffice.

The key point for me is the basic maths. You look at how many millions of tons of honey are exported from China and compare that to the number of actual bees in the observable universe and they are several orders of magnitude in disagreement. Contamination from the widespread use of antibiotics in China is another easily confirmable statement.

The real problem is much wider of course. Processed foods are having a seriously harmful effect on the human species. The race to the bottom towards high margin, low quality, industrialised food production is (in my opinion) responsible for serious declines in the general health of the population.

 

[daleyd]

Relax, Folks. It Really Is Honey After All

The honey on supermarket shelves is probably real honey, after all. But claims that illicit Chinese honey was being sneaked into the U.S. market reveal how quick we are to assume the worst about supermarket foods — and imports. Closer analysis reveals a more complex tale.

www.npr.org

 

[Screwdriver]

Relax, Folks. It Really Is Honey After All

The honey on supermarket shelves is probably real honey, after all. But claims that illicit Chinese honey was being sneaked into the U.S. market reveal how quick we are to assume the worst about supermarket foods — and imports. Closer analysis reveals a more complex tale.

www.npr.org

It's certainly disputed so you have to make your own mind up. It is a minefield regarding "honey" and iirc a recent test of all the generally available supermarket "blends" confirmed they were all cut with rice sugar or whatnot. There's also the labelling which I think if it has the word "blend" anywhere on the packaging means its not 100% unadulterated pure bee produce. Quite what percentage has to be left I don't know.

I just use common sense and overdeveloped cynicism so when I see the difference between say a Stahlwille/Wera tool and some Ding dong "equivalent" made in China, I think to myself: if Ding dong were making food, would I really want to eat it...

From the very article you link to: one third of all "honey" in the UK is "made in China".

The cynic in me hazards a guess that a fair chunk of the other 2/3 also started out in China...