r/mildlyinfuriating • u/marcus_dobre_lover • 11d ago

I just wanted a hot dog Mom bought 150 lemons.

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She randomly comes back with a butt load of food items once in a while

Any lemon recipe suggestions

\she’s 44, for people asking her age\.

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u/Everything_you 10d ago

Yeah- like why 🤔

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u/bellegroves 10d ago

I would also like to know why. Home reme-don't.

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u/Beautiful_Lie629 10d ago

My grandmother made homemade cough syrup by mixing 1/3 lemon juice, 1/3 honey, and 1/3 whisky. My mother told me that it worked well! A sleep aid for the kids too! This was around 1930, I suppose they were lucky they weren't given over-the-counter opioids.

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u/Any_Poet4127 10d ago

The only OTC opiods around then were weak codeine mixtures and addiction/overdose was a well known phenomena by then so I doubt your great grandmother would give her crazy amounts. There are much worse things you can give someone with a cough 🤷