Help, I ate a Peppa Pig gummy vitamin and I think I will never be free of the taste

[ZoeTheThornyDevil]

The DC complained they were horrible and handed them back. "Don't be so bloody precious," I said, and popped one in my mouth. It's basically a sweet, how bad could it be?

Oh. My. God. They were "Omega-3 vitamins" and they tasted like a Jelly Tot had mated with a lab-generated rotten salmon. The cloying, synthetic fish...

I spat it out in the toilet, apologised profusely to the DC, and threw the bottle of the nightmarish things away. But that was four hours ago and I can still taste it. I drowned my dinner in garlic; didn't help. I just poured away a perfectly good beer because all I could think was "...lingeringly fishy".

Heeeeeelp meeeeeee

Sorry no help but that's hilarious

That explains why my 3 yr old who LOVES Peppa will not touch them.

Do NOT taste it yourself to prove they're being silly. I repeat, do NOT.

Bloody bottle cost best part of a tenner and all. DH let the DC choose them.

Excellent description there! As an aside tip ds has the Barratts multivitamin gummies and they taste lovely

All the gummies with omega 3 taste like week old fish oil

You should have given them to dh so they don't get wasted

Get capsules and don't chew

It could make an excellent dieting technique, if you're feeling really desperate. Will report back in morning whether I've regained the ability to think about food without feeling sick.

I forgot to say brush your teeth and listerine mouthwash listerine burns your mouth clean

Don't eat the orange haliborange ones either. They taste of feet.

Oh, mouthwash could work. I have mouthwash. Off to gargle with every one in the house.

I actually like fish normally. Or I used to. shudder

Think I bought the same thing in a different brand. Yes, fish jelly tot rolled in flavourless sugar.

Yes! There was also this taste sort of like sugar... yet somehow still tasteless. Why???

Went to the loo before bed. It smelt of piss (again). Brushed past the bath mat hanging over the shower screen & got another waft.

So I turned and sniffed, properly snorted, the bath mat 😵😣🤢🤧ugh, either the cat or the small boy keeps pissing on the bath mats.

I can still feel it in my nose.

This reminds me of the time I accidentally bit into a krill oil capsule

Not vitamin related but another sensation I think I'll have to live with forever 🤮

Oh wow, I've never bought the peppa pig ones (I'm too tight!) but get the Haliborange ones in various flavours/vitamin specifics regularly - the DC line up for their daily vitamin in the morning and have never mentioned any not tasting good. Very interesting!

Mouthwash and a good clean of your tongue (back of your toothbrush or scrape with a spoon gently) would be my recommendation op!

I'm going to name and shame: they were Wellkid brand. A PLAGUE ON ALL OF YOUR OVERPRICED WELL HOUSES, WELLKID.

(The DC love their normal gummy vitamins and it has never occurred to me to taste one before. Bloody DH not reading labels. Gaaaaaah. He wouldn't eat them either, he didn't like the smell.)

Odd since they're not made with fish. The Peppa pigs omega gummies I use are vegan

The same problem in this house 😆

You've reminded me of my DS a few years back, he kept getting colds and I decided to double dose him with mulitvitamin plus fish oil gummies. A couple of weeks later I kept wondering why his hair smelt so fishy.... eventually worked out it was the vitamin gummies

Update: I overdid the tongue-scraping and nearly vommed in the sink. That and gargling the hell out of some mouthwash did help though.

Haven't been able to face breakfast yet (I was going to have smoked salmon...) but I hope to soon.

I bought the Marvel ones for 8yo DS, I meant to buy just the normal Vitamin D ones but accidentally bought the ones with Omega 3. Ugh... even the smell is vile.

I'm making him eat them though as they cost £15. Bad mum!

How can they smell of fish when they don't contain fish?

@1940s

How can they smell of fish when they don't contain fish?

The same way smoky bacon crisps smell of bacon even though they're vegetarian - flavourings and additives.

But Smokey bacon crisps are supposed to taste that way. Nobody has decided to make a child gummy sweet taste like fake fish. We've had them
For years now and never had a fishy batch. Maybe your batch has gone off.

@1940s

But Smokey bacon crisps are supposed to taste that way. Nobody has decided to make a child gummy sweet taste like fake fish. We've had them For years now and never had a fishy batch. Maybe your batch has gone off.

Maybe not on purpose, but maybe the combination of certain vitamins/colourings or whatever has made them taste that way.

My point was that an item doesn't need to include meat/fish to taste of it.