Jelly Horrid

[AlisonM]

My neighbour was in earlier and gave me some Thorntons strawberry jelly hearts as hypo treat. I just tried one and they're awful. Like solid strawberry jam, far too sweet and cloying. I don't doubt they'll do the trick though, I feel as though I'm likely to hit the high teens from a standing start of 3.4 after just one. We shall see.

 

[robert@fm]

Sounds a bit like my experience drinking Lucozade — I find it sickly sweet and can barely drink it. This was especially bad during my recent week in hospital, when I hypoed twice (once in the middle of the night, so they had to wake me). 😱 Hence, in my fridge at home, I have hypo treatments such as full-sugar Pepsi and Tango. 🙂

 

[trophywench]

Hey Robert, I opt for orange flavoured Lucozade - tastes nice AND it's glucose rather than sugar which Tango is and therefore gets there quicker.

I had to have a bottle of 'ordinary' recently (not the whole bottle, just enough!) and was thinking why EVER did we think this was a treat when we were little and ill?

It's pretty vile really.

 

[AlisonM]

I had to have a bottle of 'ordinary' recently (not the whole bottle, just enough!) and was thinking why EVER did we think this was a treat when we were little and ill?

It's pretty vile really.

I thought that was just me! I used to have it when I wasn't well as a child. Then a few years ago I tried it again and it made me sick, it was awful.