to ask if anyone can explain this joke please?

[5Foot5]

Q. What sort of cough medicine does Dracula take?
A. Con medicine

Just that. It was in one of the crackers at dinner today. One expects the novelties to be a bit rubbish but it is nice to have a titter over the jokes. However we can none of us understand why this is meant to be funny. Does this mean anything to anyone?

Nope bad translation into English maybe?

Count medicine would make sense but it still wouldn't be funny!

Think it's supposed to say coffin medicine

Coffin medicine?

Snap dobbins :)

Con medicine? As in, on is the opposite of off?
Coff medicine, Con medicine?

No bloody idea

It's a typo - should be coffin!

Hmm! Think you must be right about coffin medicine. Not very good is it?

Or why did Dracula need to take medicine?
Because he was always coffin.

The joke as it appeared didn't make any sense!

I was just doing a Google search to find this answer! We too didn't understand the funny side of con medicine. I even read the Dracula wiki page hoping to find a reference. Coffin, should have known! Thanks!

Maybe it's a reference to Klor Con, a medicine that needs to be sucked rather than swallowed. Sort of makes sense. Although it's used to treat low potassium rather than sore throats. Maybe it's a surrealist joke.

It's usually coffin medicine, isn't it? Must be a typo.

This

A year later....

And a year on...!

Coffin

It's supposed to say coffin

We had same joke

Ha ha - a year old

Why revive a Zombie thread about something so obscure

Because someone else has probably had the same cracker joke.

And googled it and here we are.

I got this one and didn't have a clue what it meant

Lol!! I was about to say I must have had too many Buck's Fizz as I didn't remember posting my reply today ...

I think we need to invest in better crackers!

Why is this thread in trending? No one's posted in a year.