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Those of you who grew-up in Minnesota or it's border areas in the 50's into the early 80's probably had a Mom who believed in the powers of a wonder drug. That wonder drug was 7UP. If you were sick, flu, cold, measles etc., your Mom would give you 7UP to make you feel better. Heck, when THEY were feeling down, they wanted some 7UP. Strained ligaments in my knee playing football in High School. Besides pain meds what did I get? Yep 7UP.

The Gophers have had a very bad month. Many injuries to key personnel and some rather insensitive decision making to boot. What they need to do is take some of that available A.D. money and buy everybody over there some 7UP. Maybe that will help the healing or at least reverse the Karma. Get them all some old-fashioned Minnesota Meds; get them some 7Up.

Oh, and some mercurochrome. Forget about that whole "mercury" thing, get them A LOT of mercurochrome. My Dad would have said some Windsor too, but that's taking things a little to far. :cool:
 

Or get them some 'tussin!

Shockingly, I do not have to add a warning about language being NSFW.

 

7UP was for stomach flu, any kind of virus stuff even chicken pocks.

Yes 7UP was definately a go to comfort item for stomach flu, being sick with some crummy virus type of thing.
Not so much the beat up aches and pains and the scraped knees. That was Tylenol and bacetracin.
Today's formula of 7UP just doesn't seem the same. I think the old school formula's of seven up were developed
for hangover cures, and to settle your rotten stomach. Not so much today, it is just like all of the other lemon lime citrus pops now 7UP just isn't the same as the older formulations.
Today's version of Sprite by Coke and 7UP by Dr Pepper are just way to sweet, not enough of that hint of lemon lime, a little sweet and the bubbles you know, POP instead of just a soda like all of the regular sodas of today.
 

Remember the slogan "You like it, it likes you"? I remember an old bottle that had that slogan. 7-Up was popular when you were sick because it was gentle on the stomach and got fluids into you, and was more convenient than juice. I remember one person who drank 7-Up when she was sick, and then immediately threw up. She remained forever convinced that it was the 7-Up's fault. It's understandable, my wife drank Gatorade when she was pregnant and sick, now she associates the taste of Gatorade with being sick.

I remember Mercurachrome. It seems crazy these days to use mercury in medicine, but it did work. We just have better options these days. There was an old saying "A night with venus, a lifetime with mercury" referring to syphillis. Before antibiotics, mercury was one of the few treatments that worked. It just had a lot of nasty side effects.

Now the question is, who is old enough to remember the 7-Up candy bar?
 




I had a couple of Seven and Sevens last night and they did make me feel better.
 


I must have grown up in a different zip code in Minnesota. I got ginger ale… and a lot of other home remedies that I am surprised didn’t kill me.

I was going to suggest Epson salts for the boys, but maybe these days that isn’t such a good idea either. So, perhaps go with a good old mustard plaster and an ace bandage for the walking wounded.

We just need to get healthy.
 



Flatfoot said:
I must have grown up in a different zip code in Minnesota. I got ginger ale… and a lot of other home remedies that I am surprised didn’t kill me.

I was going to suggest Epson salts for the boys, but maybe these days that isn’t such a good idea either. So, perhaps go with a good old mustard plaster and an ace bandage for the walking wounded.

We just need to get healthy.
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Maybe Mike Wilbon was raised in YOUR Zip Code. From today's ESPN Chat:

ole ball coach (Columbia )

Wilbun.....how was lunch today dadgumit.
mike wilbon (2:33 PM)

just turkey/swiss/mayo on multigrain with a diet ginger ale. :)
 


It was 7UP here. My Italian grandfather from the old country swore by it. Every time he came over he brought along a case of the quart bottles. And you had to drink it straight with no ice to benefit from the healing power.
 

Remember the 7-Up candy bar. Also remember poring off the neck of a 7-Up bottle and topping off with Seagrams 7 or 4 Roses.
 




mnsports1 said:
It's no more? WTF
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One of Bud Grant's best replies to a question. The year he came out of retirement to coach the Vikings when asked if there was anything different about driving down to Mankato for training camp. Bud's reply "Only difference is the 7-Up can is now painted as a Coke can." Maybe it was Coke can is now a 7-Up can. I can't remember the sequence of 7-Up and Coke prior to Cambria.
 



Rhinegator said:
Remember the 7-Up candy bar. Also remember poring off the neck of a 7-Up bottle and topping off with Seagrams 7 or 4 Roses.
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I can relate to the 7-7 beverage. I could never relate to ruining Jack by adding coke.
 

When I was kid in the 30's, every time I had a COLD, it was Vick's Vapo Rub all over my chest and nose. Damn, I sure hated it!!!
 

I think we also had Bubble Up at times. Is that still available?
 

row19gopher said:
I think we also had Bubble Up at times. Is that still available?
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Yep and it's available in Minnesota too. Bubble Up is a lemon-lime soda pop brand created in 1919, by Sweet Valley Products Co. of Sandusky, Ohio. Bubble Up is manufactured by The Dad's Root Beer Company, LLC and owned by Hedinger Brands, LLC for the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and by Monarch Beverage Company of Atlanta for international markets (in particular Asia and Africa).
 

Let's see 7Up, Ginger Ale, mercurochrome, Robitussin, mustard plasters, Tylenol, Bacetracin, Epsom salts, Vick's Vapo Rub, and for the 2 or 3 players who are actually of age Windsor and/or Seagram's and 7.

Well please, somebody get this thread over to the training staff!!!! We've got to get those young-uns available for the Purdue game! :drink:
 

Just give me an RC Cola and a Moon Pie....uummm fine!!
 

Iceland12 said:
Let's see 7Up, Ginger Ale, mercurochrome, Robitussin, mustard plasters, Tylenol, Bacetracin, Epsom salts, Vick's Vapo Rub, and for the 2 or 3 players who are actually of age Windsor and/or Seagram's and 7.

Well please, somebody get this thread over to the training staff!!!! We've got to get those young-uns available for the Purdue game! :drink:
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And when they become Seniors and are the big guys on the team, they graduate to Jack on the rocks.
 

Just saw this thread when I was looking for something else and it made me smile.

Isn't it nice to have a Gopher squad not only winning, but not dealing with such a string of decimating injuries? :drink:
 

Ah yes, good old 7Up while my neck was wrapped up in a tube sock with a safety pin. Underneath the tube sock was a thick layer of Mentholatum.
Now for flesh wounds, we should go back to Nitrotan. Does anyone else remember this product in a spray can? It was yellow, and stung like hell. I'm not sure if it worked, but I think the high school coaches loved to spray that yellow crap on any flesh wound. I'm glad I wasn't a wrestler. They bathed in it.
 

Still can't drink 7Up to this day because of the negative connotation with vomit and fever.
 

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