Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 05, 2022

What would be an awful flavor of medicine (for children and adults alike)? Maybe durian.

Alice, call an attorney; if possible, one of Dill’s brothers…

Alice, “Ick” just stands for “It’s cotton kandy”.

She just never cared for cotton candy, Alice.

Now a real ICK! Is when your dental hygienist spaces out and uses the cotton candy flavored polishing paste instead of the mint. Came close to barf with that one.

Bright pink? The most seriously awful medicine I had to take as a kid was bright pink.

Think a thick fluid just like Pepto-Bismol, but with a profoundly bitter taste and aftertaste that lingered in your mouth for hours.

The pharmaceutical definition of a bait-and-switch if there ever was one.

Odd – the used “ick” in my school cafeteria to describe almost everything…

I find that the more garishly colored the medicine, the more disgusting it can be. Kids medicines are always the worst.

And thus a sub-style of the unbeatable martial-art, “Ecky-Thump” was born… ☺

A rare misstep from Mrs. O., maybe try a little reverse psychology. Or tell her she might grow bunny ears if she drinks it.

Any medicine my Mom gave me tasted like ick.

Mom mistake, ha

This is one of my all-time favorites of this strip. Before Covid (BC), I used to post comics on the outside of my cube wall, as I was on a main aisle. THIS one got by far the most guffaws…

So dont tak it and stay sick, I dont ever remember having a choice of liking the medicine

The one I remember from kid-dom was artificial orange flavored. shudder

Nice try at a recovery, Madeline, but your initial unthinking utterance made an Impression on the four-year-old Alice that will be hard to change!

Alice trusts her parents’ guts.