Ever had those days when you think “Right, I really can’t keep being a big kid, I need to grow up, just a little…”
No? Me neither! Well, not often, anyway.
The other day, I had one of those moments.
I reached for a sugary soft drink in the fridge, then stopped and thought “No, I’ll have a more grown up cold drink, like my mum has… So I grabbed a can of Tonic Water(no gin!). This is a drink she would always order if we went out… This, or Bitter Lemon
I cracked open the can… And my reaction?
My mouth puckered, my tastebuds hollered at me “WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO US????”. Really mum? You willingly drink this? Maybe I needed to add gin!
The horribly familiar bitter taste stayed in my mouth, as I looked closer at the can.
ERM… “Masterfully made with Quinine”.
Really? No wonder my tongue was having horror flash backs… Quinine, the malaria drug of choice that we had to swig weekly on our summer holiday visits to family in Kenya!
I remember us trying to hide every week at that same time, when the quinine bottle came out, and as children, we had to drink the syrup… At least the tablets were down your throat quick flash, but that syrup liked to linger…
Uuurgh!!!
But I Smile Anyway... 
Aug 26, 2017 @ 10:59:11
You’re brilliant! This post made me cackle. I’ve been questioning my grown up status in my household and my love of grape juice (everyone curls their faces at it and say it tastes like cough mixture!). Thanks for sharing a great post. 😁
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Aug 26, 2017 @ 11:07:06
Eloise…. adulthood is overrated!! 😉
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Aug 26, 2017 @ 12:23:42
It most certainly is! I’m sticking to my grape juice lol!
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Aug 26, 2017 @ 12:39:41
😂
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Aug 25, 2017 @ 08:40:44
Haha I love your reaction, such a fun pic
Awesome post 💗
Btw I just uploaded a new post – https://sunainadasblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/statement-shoulder-summer-to-fall-outfit/
Hope you will like it 😊
Thank you
Xoxo 💗
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Aug 25, 2017 @ 08:43:04
Thank you 😊
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Aug 25, 2017 @ 02:13:05
Ha Ha..That’s my face when I am reminded of the cod liver oil tablets we had to have as kids….even now if I get a sniff of that taste that is my face..yuk
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Aug 25, 2017 @ 08:25:53
Lol!!!! I’m glad I’m not the only one! I can’t hide my feelings… definitely don’t have a Poker Face Lol!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 22:31:33
Did you try adding some lemon or lime? I quite like tonic water once you add that…
Still…it’s better with gin.
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 22:39:07
No… that one taste made those quinine memories flood back and that was it for me… no going back 😂😂😂
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 23:31:14
Fair enough!
Once I tried some pure quinine at a G&T event…oh my god it was so gross! I’d be making the same face as you did.
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 23:31:38
😁
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 22:01:01
It looks like one of the yuckier moments of being a grownup.
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 22:04:29
I think it most definitely is Rob!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 23:07:14
🙂
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 21:56:09
Haha funny story, your picture explains the situation well😂
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 22:03:55
I’m not ready to embrace that part of adulthood!!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 18:11:46
I have to smile Sis, I love tonic water and often drink it 💜 the fact it has Quinine in is a bonus because I suffer from awful cramp! Also I take a Quinine tablet every night. Love that photo, your face is s picture. 💜💜💜💜
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 18:43:47
Oh sis I don’t know how you do it!!!!!! 🤢💜
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 19:14:55
With ease💜💜💜💜
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 17:27:15
I see it brought back bitter memories. Ha!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 18:43:20
😂😂 good one!!!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 14:15:43
A good way for me to start the morning with a good laugh from your post. It made me think about mouthwash day at school when I was little. Someone would come in the classroom with cups of mouthwash for all the students. Lets say it wasnt a day we were cheering for. lol
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 14:17:00
I think I’d prefer mouthwash to this though! Happy to give you a giggle!!!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 14:04:44
Your expression reminds me of having to drink castor oil wherever we were sick growing up, then sucking on an orange to cover the yucky taste!!! 😝 Too funny Sister!!!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 14:16:12
It was seriously gross Brother! How do people happily drink it???
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 14:17:46
Haha, they must have taste buds of steel Sister!!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 14:21:30
Or none left!!!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 14:41:35
LOL!!!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 13:55:00
So funny!!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 14:14:01
I’m happy being an overgrown kid if that’s what adults drink!!!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 12:41:48
Yuck, I do not drink tonic. I do, however, drink too much plain soda water (pretty much just carbonated water that’s been canned). Our water is perfectly fine, so I’m not sure why I waste my money to buy water…
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 13:06:49
I know right!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 12:16:24
I’m happy by just drinking plain water. Not into any health stuff especially if it processed or it comes in packaged form.
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 13:06:29
Water is good with me too !
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 13:26:47
the best natural thing we all should have more often 🙂
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 13:30:28
Definitely!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 10:50:47
My Mom drinks tonic water when we’re out, I once accidentally sipped it thinking it was my drink and, well, my reaction was very similar to yours!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 11:09:55
I don’t know what it is with mums!!!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 08:32:33
I learned this one a few one a few years ago+! Only drink tonic water solo if you are in a country where malaria is prevalent or if you suffer from leg cramps 😀
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 09:23:31
I’ll have to keep that in mind! 😉
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 07:51:34
I never knew that about Quinine, but I’ve occasioanlly swigged tonic water by mistake and like you I pull a very similar face 🙂
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 08:16:59
Now you know why… It’s Toxic water not Tonic!!!!
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Aug 25, 2017 @ 20:25:48
It’s weird that’s for sure
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Aug 25, 2017 @ 20:50:34
😂
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 07:00:28
I do feel sympathetic to you, I think I’d react the same. When I was a kid my mother would regularly treat us with this substance she called sulphur and treacle. We all screwed up our faces as well but mum assured us it would prevent us from having worms and that thought no matter how unlikely it ever was made us open our mouths, wide.
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 08:16:30
Lol!!! Quinine was yuck! Not even any treacle to sweeten it!!!
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 05:34:46
liked that expression….. i have switched to coconut water now…..
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Aug 24, 2017 @ 08:15:29
I don’t blame you… ONE BIT!!!!
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Aug 25, 2015 @ 17:43:53
HAHAHAHA! I’ve moved on to seltzer. It’s no sweet, no calories, no sodium, but it’s still fizzy and portable 😉
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Aug 26, 2015 @ 15:03:09
ERM… I still slip to Coke! 😊
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Aug 25, 2015 @ 11:46:09
Ohhhmaaaigaaush… I laughed at that expression for almost a minute! Looks so much like my probable expression! 😂😂😂
You’re super cool 👍
Take care, best wishes 😄
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Aug 25, 2015 @ 14:42:53
Lol!!! Thanks!!! It was yuck!!! 😜😜😜
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Aug 24, 2015 @ 08:37:33
Exactly how I feel about that stuff.
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Aug 24, 2015 @ 09:03:12
😜😜😜
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Aug 24, 2015 @ 06:13:03
GROSS tonic water, bleh!
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Aug 24, 2015 @ 08:08:16
Bleh indeed!!!
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Aug 24, 2015 @ 00:17:43
Love that face…I’d be doing the same. It tastes like carbonated salt water. Bad.
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Aug 24, 2015 @ 08:02:28
Even worse!!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 21:55:13
Great photo. That would be my reaction to it also yuck!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 21:57:47
😜
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 20:29:51
Oh, Ritu! You better not grow up. See, your intuition would have been better… lol. But at least we got a cute Ritu to see 😀
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 20:44:37
Lol!!! I just had to try it… See, that’s the kid in me!!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 20:49:41
Hehe… I also drank that stuff because I thought it might be cooler than any soda. Meanwhile I only drink water anyway… lol
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 21:29:13
I much prefer water to be honest!! 😊💦
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 21:52:11
The best option of all 🙂
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 19:43:05
Lol your face! I agree with you, the stuff tastes awful! It doesn’t even taste better with Gin!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 19:52:39
Lol!!! I ain’t going there again!!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 20:03:00
Lol. I don’t blame you!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 20:43:19
😉😉😉
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 16:53:59
Ha Ha! Sometimes I drink tonic water as I get cramp really badly and quinine is supposed to help. It is not that nice though, I have to say.
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 17:04:36
Yuck! Is what I’d say Judy… Never ever again… By choice anyway!!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 18:03:55
Well not unless it is infused with gin! 🙂
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 19:22:52
Lol… I’m more a voddy and lemon girl!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 19:24:39
Oooh cheeky! I’m a boring old teetotaler nowadays!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 19:30:33
Me too usually, but I have the very occasional tipple!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 19:31:31
And why not!!! I can’t because of my tablets (God. that makes me sound ancient)!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 19:32:38
But you have more fun watching others make orates of themselves!!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 19:35:46
True! 🙂
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 16:09:45
Great pic! I am pretty sure I would make that face too. I tried tonic water once. I was a lid, thought it was disgusting and bitter and knew I would never like it.
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 16:15:18
I think this is one thing I’ll never NEVER have again lol!!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 16:16:16
I don’t blame you.
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 16:16:31
😜
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 14:55:50
hiding every week at the same time, lol
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 16:03:33
There were four of us, my brother and I, and my two cousins. We’d try to hide but they’d find us every time!!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 17:04:09
lol
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 14:54:58
I remember drinking that. Quite horrid!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 16:02:26
Yuk!!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 14:54:40
I tasted this not to long ago as well, your reaction looks just like mine did. I checked the can out too. I wondered how anyone can drink that with anything?
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 16:02:13
It’s the weirdest thing… Why quinine??!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 16:05:37
No clue. I tried to block that part out! haha
P.s Congrats on your 1000
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 16:13:06
Thank you!
You know that taste… You forget it, but one whiff of it, even as an adult, and I wanted to go hide again!!!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 14:46:45
This is entertaining
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 15:55:20
See the things I do to keep my Peeps entertained…!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 14:25:29
Hahaha. I can’t imagine what that tastes like, but from your reaction I get a pretty good idea.
Also, congrats on hitting 1000 follows!!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 15:53:56
Thank,you! I’m amazed! In two,days!
And please…DON’T DO IT, YOULL NEVER FORGET THE TASTE!!!!!
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Aug 24, 2015 @ 15:43:04
lol.
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 14:20:41
I try, but there are people who make it their job to force me to ‘adult’. I’ve had tonic water before as a kid. I wanted soda at a family member’s house, but they didn’t drink it. I went into the fridge and found a can of tonic water. It had bubbles, so it MUST be soda. Did not end well.
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 15:53:08
I feel your pain Charles!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 14:14:35
Only like every day! But then I decide to keep being a kid.
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 15:52:45
Me too… Much more fun, until I realise I have two already and I need to be responsible for them!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 14:14:09
Hilarious pic !! Thanks for the share 🙂
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 15:52:06
I like to give my honest opinion!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 14:13:52
I love your reaction !
(I can’t drink it either)
xx
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 15:51:48
Seriously, I was expecting something yum… And it so didn’t happen!!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 14:02:41
Great pic! Fun memory. 🙂
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 15:51:20
A yucky tasting memory!!
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 15:53:33
I could tell by your facial expression! At least it kept you well. 🙂
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Aug 23, 2015 @ 16:09:46
That is very true!!!
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