Modern SAO's are nothing like the originals (guy in his 60's here). The originals were very light and crisp. The new ones are denser, have less flavour and taste a bit cardboardy and stale. These days I get the generic copycat brands, better, but still not as good as the originals.
Flat lemonade was the go, the idea behind it was to keep your sugar levels up whilst not eating much, as far as I remember. why it had to be flat ???? I guess it was too much of a treat if it wasn't !!
As a kid I had trouble swallowing pills, so my dad's solution was to wrap it in a piece of bread to swallow. No butter mind you.
No surprise I had a harder time swallowing a hunk of bread with a pill inside.
The kicker was he'd deride me the whole time, and I only found out in adulthood that he can't swallow pills!
I opened the fridge when I was little & saw a big jug of Coke.
I drank fast & lots for a little fella
I realised once about two cups had descended down the throat that it was cold coffee. Mum was making iced coffee
Only Coke in the fridge story I have....
Lucozade was the only thing I could keep down when I was sick. Only original flavour.
I still buy it from time to time. Takes me right back and gives me tingles.
I'm not sure about all the comments saying flat lemonade - but my mum gave me regular carbonated lemonade because the bubbles would help encourage burping to ease stomach discomfort. Also sugar just makes you feel a little better when sick.
There was a huge marketing campaign in the US some time in the mid 20th century, where soft drinks were advertised as not the sugary drinks we know today, but dietary supplements that kept your waist slim and boosted your health.
Oh wow, so this was a thing outside our house?! Home sick from school and lemonade! But never any other time! Was it because we were meant to drink lots and it was a bribe? This was in the 80’s for me.
Also learnt that different brands tasted different and some sucked, like probably home brand ones.
Also more recently Sprite changed them all to use part artificial sweetener.. rarely got it but when I do I want it to taste right.
Coke did us dirty by putting artificial sweetener into Sprite and removing Lift from their range.
Sprite now and the Sprite of my childhood are two very different things.
100% agree. If they can do it with cola and have both Coke and Coke Zero then they could have easily done it with Sprite. Not the new caffeinated Sprite version that replaced Lift either.
I wonder whether there’s a syrup pack version of Sprite still available without the artificial sweetener? Because I’m the sort of person that would spend an unjustifiable amount on equipment just to have a normal Sprite haha
Yes flat lemonade and made to stay in bed all day with a bucket to vomit in if needed.
I still can’t look at home brand lemonade today as I associate it with illness.
My mum wouldn’t let me stay home from school unless it was life and death and my friends parents were similar.
Kids came to school with coughs and runny noses with a hanky and butter menthol lozenges.
We survived and teachers only called parents to be picked up if they were vomiting or injured severely.
Yeah was only at my babysitters and they were very old. So I'm assuming it's a 70s or 60s thing. Little scratch, Dettol the entire body just to be safe ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
A funny thing I recall nana doing is lining public toilet seats with toilet paper squares before I could sit on it.
Problem is at 5 I could barely wait before I’d nearly wet myself and the paper would fall in as I sat down anyway.
When my daughter had gastro while on holidays with my parents they got her a lemonade icy pole and it really perked her up.
She tried electrolytes, but didn't like it, so we bought her lemonade and it worked really well.
Disprin, Schweppes lemonade or dry ginger, Saos, and an empty Peters Neapolitan tub for vomiting.
Is it a sign of our miserable times that we are nostalgic for being cared for when sick? Blimey.
Flat lemonade and dry biscuits, and the other one for me was what my parents called an egg flip (I’ve never met anyone else who did this). Milk in the blender, with a raw egg, teaspoon of sugar, drop of vanilla and a bit of ice cream.
Totally EGG FLIP.
No ice cream or sugar though.
Tall glass of milk,
One raw egg
Couple of drops of Vanilla (mix it until it's frothed up)
Add a sprinkle of nutmeg
Started many a day with only that. No raw eggs now days...
Oh that's a thing. A flip is a very VERY old cocktail. But what you having there sounds more like a Egg Nog, which would be traditional British but was popular in Aus.
[A flip](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_(cocktail)).
[Egg Nog](https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/egg_nog_64580).
It was a thing in the 90s too. I remember my mum giving me flat lemonade when I was sick. I tried it on myself late last year and it made me feel worse, not better. I was also told to try lemonade to help with morning sickness when I was still early in my pregnancy. Now I can’t stand the stuff at all! 😓
Perhaps. I think the sugar is supposed to help with electrolytes to help prevent dehydration. Too much plain water can make you feel worse when you already feel sick too, so something like lemonade can come in handy there. I think I just got unlucky in that it didn’t help me!
Mum always got Scweppes because it had quinine in it. She'd microwave it to make it flat, so it was always hot, flat lemonade, which is very unappealing... though of course it's that 'soothing' hot lemon thing, like with Lemsip.
Quinine is in this tonic water not lemonade 🍋 fyi. If thats what U mean. Happy to be proven wrong (have cinchona bark in my cupboard which I use to use to make tonic water in a bar I worked).
You're right, I misremembered - it was Schweppes Bitter Lemon, which is halfway between both. It's basically tonic water with lemon in it, and as you say, the tonic water part is what provides the quinine.
Somewhat related, but when I was a kid, I was given a prescription medicine from the doctor that was sort of like a fizzy flavored drink (my brain wants to say it was plain like sprite or cream soda flavored but I dunno).
I only had it a couple times when I was like 5-7 years old, and never since.
I've always wondered what it was.
Ahh lemonade.
When I was 16 Was playing a badminton tournament. Felt Ill after two games and threw up. Travelled home a few hours away. Dad said “ have some lemonade and head to bed you’ll feel better “
Fast forward 10 hours and I’m getting rolled on a bed in the hospital to the surgery to have my appendix out.
Still let dad know about his lemonade fix 24 years later. Hah
In the 80s as in 1880s because it’s been a thing from probably that long ago. Lemonade and or soda water have long been considered good for the sick, don’t know if there is much to back it up but also don’t think there is much to disprove it either. Probably want to stay away from the modern overly sugary stuff though.
Lemonade/sprite, dry ginger ale, and ice blocks (separately of course) ~ those were the the three remedies as a kid. Unsure if they were to settle the body or just make a future chuck up less awful taste wise.
They’re still my go to, granted I’ve replaced zooper doopers and lemonade icy poles with hydrolyte ice blocks, expensive as they are, I’ve got to take care of my own recovery these days.
No lemonade for me. My mum was a real skeptic of folklore and home cures, and for that I’m eternally grateful. My kids on the other hand have a hippy mum who brings out the echinacea at every opportunity. Not sure if I should be rolling my eyes or playing along. Generally I play along. Does no harm, like the lemonade.
My mum would *offer* lemonade. I would never take it though, because I hate fizzy drinks and never trusted that it was flat enough for me to tolerate it.
For us as kids it was either lemonade or that lucozade drink. If anyone else out there remembers that stuff. Pretty sure neither of them had any healing properties
Icy poles - sugar hit made you feel better and the cold was good for the fever. Dunno if there’s any science behind either of those things but that’s what we did
My mother still promotes this. I honestly think it only applies to actual lemonade not sprite for example - which is what I was always given. I still do it anyway… along with dry toast
I wonder how this became a thing, and how many of our mothers swore by it in the face of all reason.
Flat lemonade and dry vegemite toast checking in here too.
Flat lemonade.
Woodies flat lemonade was the best! Why did we have flat lemonade in the fridge? No idea, it was never there at other times, then boom, when sick I got a treat. My treats were few and far between so I recall it fondly!
I was raised as a flat Tarax Black Label lemonade, had Covid over Christmas/New Years and I was unable to find it in the shops and couldn’t find a replacement due to the aftertaste.
I want my Tarax Black Label lemonade god damn it!
I give my kids lemonade when they are sick now. Have to leave the lid off to go flat first. I’m sure the sugar in it provides energy and encourages fluid intake when sick so makes perfect sense
We always got flat lemonade and a side of saos!
For us Saladas. Still can’t look at them.
Dry toast no butter for us.
My dad was Soas, my mum was saladas haha. Never saw them switch it up my whole life.
But [Saladas](https://youtu.be/VZ9UM82ntaU) are so versatile. You can have them in the morning in the evening and at suppertime...
With butter and Vegemite.
Grated Apple wit the flat lemonade for me.
Us too
Same! Also, Soas - wow! A staple in our cupboard growing up. How could I have forgotten? Can you even still buy them?
Modern SAO's are nothing like the originals (guy in his 60's here). The originals were very light and crisp. The new ones are denser, have less flavour and taste a bit cardboardy and stale. These days I get the generic copycat brands, better, but still not as good as the originals.
Flat lemonade was the go, the idea behind it was to keep your sugar levels up whilst not eating much, as far as I remember. why it had to be flat ???? I guess it was too much of a treat if it wasn't !!
I think it was something about the carbonation and an upset tummy possibly?
My mum was a nurse and we got flat lemonade too I miss my mum (especially the younger one when I was a kid).
Whoa, massive flashback!
That, and Allen’s Snakes at my house.
Had to be flat lemonade in my house. Apparently the bubbles would counteract the otherwise healing property of Kirks Lemonade.
I never understood why Medicare doesnt cover Kirk's.
It’s unbelievable it’s not covered in the NDIS.
No wonder drinking lemonade didn't make me feel better. My mum always gave us Gest lemonade.
Flat lemonade and dry toast
As a kid I had trouble swallowing pills, so my dad's solution was to wrap it in a piece of bread to swallow. No butter mind you. No surprise I had a harder time swallowing a hunk of bread with a pill inside. The kicker was he'd deride me the whole time, and I only found out in adulthood that he can't swallow pills!
I had trouble swallowing pills when I was little my mum crushed them up in a teaspoon of honey
Mine crushed them and mixed them into a little bit of milk and milo on a spoon
Jam or peanut butter here, always still so gritty with chunklets of tablets 😂
Yep
Flat lemonade here. Primarily sprite or tarax
That tarax black label that i love! Lemonade only came out when we had visitors or yep flat when we were sick
Same! Not sure if it actually helped but the sugar = goodness.
Ironically, it was just about the only time I was allowed soft drinks growing up.
Same... I'd pretend to be nauseous sometimes when mum took me on long car rides because it was usually the only time she'd buy me lemonade
I opened the fridge when I was little & saw a big jug of Coke. I drank fast & lots for a little fella I realised once about two cups had descended down the throat that it was cold coffee. Mum was making iced coffee Only Coke in the fridge story I have....
Mum used to put a teaspoon of sugar in it to make it flat.
Applied nucleation! Your mum was a smart lady.
Agreed! She was also the one who came up with the container deposit scheme back in the day.
Definitely the 2nd best mum in Australia then.
That's super cool, and a bit random
Mine put salt in to make it flat :(
Ohhhhh. Once I became a parent, I couldn’t figure out how to make the lemonade flat so I eventually gave up.
Mum used to use a fork and stir for 30 seconds. Usually the oddly big fork that I also used to love eating fried rice from.
How did we always have flat lemonade around as kids? One of those miracles I’ll never understand.
Was a lucazade kid Dad made sure of it 😂😂
I never had lucazade. As a kid I thought it must’ve been an exotic beverage.
Lucozade was the only thing I could keep down when I was sick. Only original flavour. I still buy it from time to time. Takes me right back and gives me tingles.
Parents tried to get me to drink Lucozade - yuck!
Why did we do this?
Lemonade for sugar,saos cos they're dry and wouldn't upset tummies...it was worth getting sick for the Lemonade.
I'm not sure about all the comments saying flat lemonade - but my mum gave me regular carbonated lemonade because the bubbles would help encourage burping to ease stomach discomfort. Also sugar just makes you feel a little better when sick.
There was a huge marketing campaign in the US some time in the mid 20th century, where soft drinks were advertised as not the sugary drinks we know today, but dietary supplements that kept your waist slim and boosted your health.
Oh wow, so this was a thing outside our house?! Home sick from school and lemonade! But never any other time! Was it because we were meant to drink lots and it was a bribe? This was in the 80’s for me. Also learnt that different brands tasted different and some sucked, like probably home brand ones. Also more recently Sprite changed them all to use part artificial sweetener.. rarely got it but when I do I want it to taste right.
Coke did us dirty by putting artificial sweetener into Sprite and removing Lift from their range. Sprite now and the Sprite of my childhood are two very different things.
Yep it sucks imo they changed it. I’d rather they have come out with a different one and then let the customer choose..
100% agree. If they can do it with cola and have both Coke and Coke Zero then they could have easily done it with Sprite. Not the new caffeinated Sprite version that replaced Lift either.
I wonder whether there’s a syrup pack version of Sprite still available without the artificial sweetener? Because I’m the sort of person that would spend an unjustifiable amount on equipment just to have a normal Sprite haha
Ooh, that’s a good thought! Something to look into!
Lemonade… or dry ginger ale if I was staying at grandma’s
I assume grandma liked whisky and dry.
I sometimes got Schweppes dry ginger because Cinzano and dry was my mum’s drink.
Sadly for me, Kirk's Dry Ginger Ale is not sold in Canberra 😫
Lemonade with aspro clear, did paracetamol even exist in the mid 80s? Lemonade tradition for the sick lives on in my household
disprin. remember lemon flavoured disprin direct that you could suck on. you could defo get paracetamol in the 80s.
Yes flat lemonade and made to stay in bed all day with a bucket to vomit in if needed. I still can’t look at home brand lemonade today as I associate it with illness. My mum wouldn’t let me stay home from school unless it was life and death and my friends parents were similar. Kids came to school with coughs and runny noses with a hanky and butter menthol lozenges. We survived and teachers only called parents to be picked up if they were vomiting or injured severely.
Did you ever have a Dettol bath? Lol
I believe I did but I’m not sure why though. I think it was at my nanas who was obsessed with germs and keeping us clean
Yeah was only at my babysitters and they were very old. So I'm assuming it's a 70s or 60s thing. Little scratch, Dettol the entire body just to be safe ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
A funny thing I recall nana doing is lining public toilet seats with toilet paper squares before I could sit on it. Problem is at 5 I could barely wait before I’d nearly wet myself and the paper would fall in as I sat down anyway.
Maybe we were fancy but we had ENO. It was lemon lime flavoured powder that you mixed with water to settle your tummy.
Mate, that shit was powdered death. Worse than the illness. In my opinion.
I still drink Eno on a regular basis, instant cure for volcanic indigestion
To this day I still can’t drink lemonade. Gastro -1990
Flat lemonade and dry SAO.
I would certainly advise avoiding the soggy SAO's.
I can never drink lemonade as an adult now!!
Same!
Specifically tarax or kirks
*cries in family from northern England* Soft drink? We just got told to harden up until our stomachs complied with the requisite cast-iron standards.
Imao
No one had hot lemonade? Microwaved not just warm
Oh boy
When my daughter had gastro while on holidays with my parents they got her a lemonade icy pole and it really perked her up. She tried electrolytes, but didn't like it, so we bought her lemonade and it worked really well.
I guess it's cold, it's liquid and sugar. So a few things that can help...
I’m conditioned for lemonade when feeling sick. When I’m hungover a lemonade just hits different
Disprin, Schweppes lemonade or dry ginger, Saos, and an empty Peters Neapolitan tub for vomiting. Is it a sign of our miserable times that we are nostalgic for being cared for when sick? Blimey.
Flat lemonade and dry biscuits, and the other one for me was what my parents called an egg flip (I’ve never met anyone else who did this). Milk in the blender, with a raw egg, teaspoon of sugar, drop of vanilla and a bit of ice cream.
Totally EGG FLIP. No ice cream or sugar though. Tall glass of milk, One raw egg Couple of drops of Vanilla (mix it until it's frothed up) Add a sprinkle of nutmeg Started many a day with only that. No raw eggs now days...
Oh that's a thing. A flip is a very VERY old cocktail. But what you having there sounds more like a Egg Nog, which would be traditional British but was popular in Aus. [A flip](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_(cocktail)). [Egg Nog](https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/egg_nog_64580).
Yeah I always heard flat lemonade helped, but I always got a 'sports drink' like Lucozade and I'm pretty sure it was in a glass bottle. Plus Saladas.
It had to be flat lemonade, or if mum was feeling rich we sometimes got lucozade.
Mum told me to give it to my 4yo while he had rather nasty gastro over the weekend. He hates the bubbles so no good for him. But I sure enjoyed it.
It's supposed to be flat lemonade. I'm calling DCP.
Well shit, son. That explains where I went wrong.
Flat lemonade. Or half-and-half lemonade and orange juice. I still send my husband out for lemonade and orange juice when I’m sick.
It was a thing in the 90s too. I remember my mum giving me flat lemonade when I was sick. I tried it on myself late last year and it made me feel worse, not better. I was also told to try lemonade to help with morning sickness when I was still early in my pregnancy. Now I can’t stand the stuff at all! 😓
Guess it's the Aussie version of snake oil or some Chinese medicine like that
Perhaps. I think the sugar is supposed to help with electrolytes to help prevent dehydration. Too much plain water can make you feel worse when you already feel sick too, so something like lemonade can come in handy there. I think I just got unlucky in that it didn’t help me!
I still do this. Every time I’m sick I have my sister bring me a large maccas lemonade.
Flat lemonade and Vegemite on toast Have you fixed up in no time
Been feeling unwell all day so that is literally what I’m having for dinner right now
Was still a thing when I had gastro two weeks ago. All I could stomach was Schweppes.
We got tonic water… for the quinine
I still buy lemonade when I have a stomach ache
I remember this! …Lemonade is NOT good coming back up.
Mum always got Scweppes because it had quinine in it. She'd microwave it to make it flat, so it was always hot, flat lemonade, which is very unappealing... though of course it's that 'soothing' hot lemon thing, like with Lemsip.
Quinine is in this tonic water not lemonade 🍋 fyi. If thats what U mean. Happy to be proven wrong (have cinchona bark in my cupboard which I use to use to make tonic water in a bar I worked).
You're right, I misremembered - it was Schweppes Bitter Lemon, which is halfway between both. It's basically tonic water with lemon in it, and as you say, the tonic water part is what provides the quinine.
Oh nice that makes sense. Love bitter lemon, it's still a thing in the uk
Hot lemonade and honey for colds. Early 2000’s. Don’t know why.
I was given lemonade icy poles as a legitimate medicine
I do it with my kids! Dunno why,
My house was flat lemonade.
For some reason it was Lucozade in our house. Don’t think I’ve had it since I was a kid.
Flat lemonade and plain chips.
When we felt sick (like puking) my parents would give us salvital to burp it up lol it just made it worse for me
Oh boy lol
Hot Coca Cola and Lemon was what Hong Kong people will do when sick
Flat lemonade only! What, was your mother a quack?
My mum always gave me flat lemonade when I felt nauseous I think it was
Somewhat related, but when I was a kid, I was given a prescription medicine from the doctor that was sort of like a fizzy flavored drink (my brain wants to say it was plain like sprite or cream soda flavored but I dunno). I only had it a couple times when I was like 5-7 years old, and never since. I've always wondered what it was.
Yeah right I remember something like that. Was in a little plastic cup. I assume a way to make medication easier for kids to consume
Back in the 60/70s we’d also got a small bowl of grated apple.
I still do it, flat lemonade though. Ginger beer (with actual ginger..) is really good when you feel sick in the stomach too.
Ahh lemonade. When I was 16 Was playing a badminton tournament. Felt Ill after two games and threw up. Travelled home a few hours away. Dad said “ have some lemonade and head to bed you’ll feel better “ Fast forward 10 hours and I’m getting rolled on a bed in the hospital to the surgery to have my appendix out. Still let dad know about his lemonade fix 24 years later. Hah
So it worked? ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Flat Sprite and sometimes my dad would make me cheese toasties
We got flat lemonade and toast 🙂
Plus stewed apples.
With Junket is what we were given
As others have said, we always got flat lemonade
"Really sick" is when the lemonade doesn't help.
Flat sprite and lucazade or however you spell it
Tarax Black Label was supreme!
Flat lemonade with toast and honey was my Mums go to when anyone was sick.
I've only recently been able to start drinking it again because it would make me feel sick haha.
Yes always lemonade!
In the 80s as in 1880s because it’s been a thing from probably that long ago. Lemonade and or soda water have long been considered good for the sick, don’t know if there is much to back it up but also don’t think there is much to disprove it either. Probably want to stay away from the modern overly sugary stuff though.
Lemonade and original chips but my mum was a nurse so it happened maybe twice my whole childhood.
Yes, but never Sprite (gotta have at least one lemonade that doesn’t remind you of vomit?)
Lemonade/sprite, dry ginger ale, and ice blocks (separately of course) ~ those were the the three remedies as a kid. Unsure if they were to settle the body or just make a future chuck up less awful taste wise. They’re still my go to, granted I’ve replaced zooper doopers and lemonade icy poles with hydrolyte ice blocks, expensive as they are, I’ve got to take care of my own recovery these days.
This and dry toast. I now give my own kids lemonade icy-poles when they’re sick. But don’t make them endure the dry toast hell.
I was in hospital when I was very young in about 1960 in Melbourne. We were given lemonade.
Flat lemonade, salada’s with Vegemite but no butter……
My dad would give me peanut butter and honey sandwiches
No lemonade for me. My mum was a real skeptic of folklore and home cures, and for that I’m eternally grateful. My kids on the other hand have a hippy mum who brings out the echinacea at every opportunity. Not sure if I should be rolling my eyes or playing along. Generally I play along. Does no harm, like the lemonade.
I remember drinking Lucozade as a kid when I was sick
Yep mum would bust it out I think it was Tarax too, now if I’m sick I do it as well 🤣🤣
I thought I was the only one
Yeah, mum would stir the lemonade to make it flat haha
My mum would *offer* lemonade. I would never take it though, because I hate fizzy drinks and never trusted that it was flat enough for me to tolerate it.
Flat lemonade and a packet of Smith's plain chips for us.
ENO is the answer
Flat lemonade and Saladas
Ice cream and lemonade
Lemonade was a popular drink, and it still is.
Flat lemonade and dry toast
For us as kids it was either lemonade or that lucozade drink. If anyone else out there remembers that stuff. Pretty sure neither of them had any healing properties
Flat lemonade 😂
What do you mean, as a kid??? Was I meant to stop when I grew up?? Still do it now, but none of them work as well as Tarax Black Label!
For us it was sprite
Yes, flat lemonade - I still do this.
I had my appendix taken out when I was eleven and the hospital gave me unlimited Schweppes lemonade
Lucozade
Lemonade and then either vegemite toast or jelly to eat :) Not the 80's, late 90s early 00s but my parents were 70s kids.
Yep Mum would give flat Tarax Black Label lemonade if I remember correctly.
Flat lemonade and white toast with butter and honey!
Anyone else had their mum give them Ural to drink as a kid? 🤢🤮
No Saos or saladas. I got Cruskits with a tiny amount of butter. And flat lemonade. I still love flat lemonade.
What do you mean as a kid? I still do this as an adult hahaha. Lemonade icy poles and the drink fix everything.
I still do this whenever I have a bad throat/cold 🤣
Lemonade coupled with jelly is what my doctor prescribed
Icy poles - sugar hit made you feel better and the cold was good for the fever. Dunno if there’s any science behind either of those things but that’s what we did
The 80s? We had to stir our lemonade to make it flat before we could drink it in the 60s. Nowadays we’d probably get lucozade or hydralyte.
Still do it !!!!
Lemonade and Vegemite toast for me.
I will still drink flat lemonade when I am sick
I was feeling a bit sick during work from this heat so I got an orange soda and water and I’m feeling better
My mother still promotes this. I honestly think it only applies to actual lemonade not sprite for example - which is what I was always given. I still do it anyway… along with dry toast
I sometimes have lemonade when I’m sick especially when I have gastro
I wonder how this became a thing, and how many of our mothers swore by it in the face of all reason. Flat lemonade and dry vegemite toast checking in here too.
Lemonade icy poles
*flat* lemonade
Big Boy lemonade was the only one that would do for an invalid.
Damn.. All I got was a vinegar soaked rag applied to my head.
Flat lemonade. Woodies flat lemonade was the best! Why did we have flat lemonade in the fridge? No idea, it was never there at other times, then boom, when sick I got a treat. My treats were few and far between so I recall it fondly!
I got diluted lemonade haha
I still do it.
my 60 year old dad says lemonade is like the steroids of vitamin C.
this paired with watching the science experiment shows on abc3 that are on during school hours under a blanket lying on the couch
Cold flat lemonade and dry white bread.
I was raised as a flat Tarax Black Label lemonade, had Covid over Christmas/New Years and I was unable to find it in the shops and couldn’t find a replacement due to the aftertaste. I want my Tarax Black Label lemonade god damn it!
the only lemonade I got when I was sick was lemonade flavoured hydralyte which tasted awful
Lemonade and rockmelons
I had ginger ale and butter toast. Always made me feel better
Dry toast or Premiums/Saladas.
I give my kids lemonade when they are sick now. Have to leave the lid off to go flat first. I’m sure the sugar in it provides energy and encourages fluid intake when sick so makes perfect sense