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To warn you that Raspberry and Cream Lindor taste like worming medicine from the 1980s

76 replies

Pripsen · 27/12/2023 10:44

Received some of these ‘delicious’ treats from my SiL.

Just one bite in, and torturous memories of being forced to drink vile raspberry flavoured unctuous liquid came flooding back.

PRIPSEN!

Thankfully it appears that this cruel concoction is no longer available

Should I eat some more chocs just to double check my visceral reaction, or just swiftly more on to the Hotel Chocolat selection?

OP posts:
NotBadConsidering · 27/12/2023 23:40

Are worms still a thing?!

Thread/pin worms are ubiquitous to humans, across the globe, in all schools, all areas of life.

I seem to remember a story about a study where money in circulation was checked for worm eggs and found to be covered in them, although that may be apocryphal🤔.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 27/12/2023 23:40

It was the foulest stuff imaginable, wasn’t it? Like the actual taste of death. How could they make anything taste so disgusting?

So triggering.

The stuff you get now (the tablets) is actually quite nice (had a couple of possible cases with my kids and I’m not looking to check!)

TooDyed · 27/12/2023 23:42

Haven’t tasted that medicine, but Lindor chocolate are particularly nasty.
They taste like butter, all of them.

DazedandConfused1234 · 27/12/2023 23:42

My kids have had worms on a number of occasions (DD was a thumbsucker - not sure why DS is prone). They love the banana flavoured OVEX, and every time they take it I regale them with my tales of pripsen-flavoured child abuse. Christ, that stuff was foul. Like a PP, I was the wormy child but DB was forced to take it too. I remember him running down the garden and vomiting it into a bush. I think my mum let him off taking more as she knew I was the real offender.

She used to bring it up to me with a glass of milk and a chocolate bar to wash it down, bless her heart. Took me hours to drink the diabolical concoction.

She used to mix it with water though. The very last time we ever took it, she mixed it with milk and I remember it was considerably less vile. Like pps I still can't eat or even smell anything artificially raspberry without gagging. That must be 40-odd years ago. Can't believe so many other are tortured with the same childhood memory!

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 27/12/2023 23:42

I reckon those who think they/ their kids have never had it are just living with them. Apparently some just don’t notice they have it.

Resisterance · 27/12/2023 23:42

Christ that stuff was so grim I used to pretend I didn't have them to my mum so I didn't have drink it.

houseplanting · 27/12/2023 23:44

Oh god, I still have flashbacks about this stuff ( can't even voice the name without gagging). Thanks for the warning.

coldcallerbaiter · 27/12/2023 23:52

Oh I remember that powder it was almost purple.

Ate too many Lindor as usual. Orange was good. Strawberry and raspberry don’t go well though.

coconut is yum as is white choc one. Bit disappointed that pistachio was not v strong.

BiblicallyAccurateAngel · 27/12/2023 23:56

I remember sitting at the kitchen table and not being allowed leave until I'd finished it. My mum used to tell me to hold my nose, like that made any difference 😫

coldcallerbaiter · 27/12/2023 23:56

Oh did you know we are immune to the ovex ingredients in the Uk, which is why it still reproduces, and the cycle continues. You need to get the Australia ingredients they use to kill our worms/eggs. different chemical.

Siha345 · 28/12/2023 00:45

We are not immune to Ovex. I got worms from a guy I was dating a few years ago who let his kids sleep in his bed and it cleared them right up. But I couldn’t get over the thought of him with bumhole worms so had to end it. I hope he doesn’t still have them

iklboo · 28/12/2023 00:48

Thankfully never tasted the medicine but thanks for the warning.

DyslexicPoster · 28/12/2023 00:52

Latenightreader · 27/12/2023 10:48

That was the vilest substance know to humanity - I am feeling ill at the thought. Thank you for the warning...

God yes. There is nothing that tastes worse. I rembrr gagging and crying and holding my nose. Anything with raspberry in it now me and dh but get triggered. Ugh!

blurpd · 28/12/2023 01:12

My child picked up worms from gymnastics a few years ago. Ovex tablets. I didn't see anything called pripsren thankfully. Can you still get it?

Thanks for the warning about the Lindt !

VortexOfDisaster · 28/12/2023 01:27

Thanks so much for heads up!

And solidarity to everyone else who remembers being subject to that vile shit in the eighties. 👊
I always thought it must have been invented by someone who hated children. Just the smell of it was enough to make me throw up.

Even now I have an aversion to sweets or cakes with the same colouring or anything remotely like the smell. I’d quite happily never touch another lindor for the rest of my life if it reduces the risk of tasting that shite again.

oh god, I’m retching just remembering! 😖🤢

Valeriekat · 28/12/2023 03:58

"Birthday Cake" is even worse!

steff13 · 28/12/2023 04:01

CornishGem1975 · 27/12/2023 10:57

God that was disgusting stuff.

But did we have a worms problem in the 80s? My kids are in their late teens and I've never ever had to give them anything for worms!

I'm in my 40s and neither I nor my kids have ever had to be wormed.

garlictwist · 28/12/2023 04:39

Oh my god. That drink! I haven't thought of that for years. It was just so vile. I can still taste it in my mind.

Poundshop · 28/12/2023 05:04

That stuff was vile. Also, it turned your poo pink.

trader21c · 28/12/2023 05:13

That stuff 😩😩truly vile will never forget it

SinnerBoy · 28/12/2023 05:15

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · Yesterday 11:07

Dh had to have it after being infected by his db. Insult to injury, he was allergic to it and we spent the day watching his face morph into a week old balloon.

I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself from giggling like a loon at that! One of my colleagues is looking at me as if I' a nutter!

Anyway, I don't remember a liquid, but we had to go to the school nurse and get some white chocolate button things, with hundreds and thousands on them, late 70s / early 80s. (For worms). They tasted weird, but I don't remember them being unbearable.

HollyBollyBooBoo · 28/12/2023 05:29

I could taste it the moment you mentioned it, absolutely disgusting. Did we all have worms back then? Never had an issue with DD.

SinnerBoy · 28/12/2023 05:31

I don't think that most of us did, it's just that with a confirmed case, they did the whole school.

Lemejustsay · 28/12/2023 06:51

🤮 urgh that stuff was torture. I remember crying and refusing but ultimately being made to drink it. There was just so much to drink though! 🤢

I think ours was just mixed with water too.

Thanks for the warning though as I do like Lindor normally.

DazedandConfused1234 · 28/12/2023 08:33

Some people are highly sensitive to whatever the worms secret and itch like crazy. Others don't or have to have a bad case to react. If you read the threadworm threads on here, people describe seeing masses of the little blighters in their kids' poo, or in their bottoms, whereas I have never seen more than one or two. I think, as a family, we must just itch early.

If you or your kids don't itch, you won't necessarily know that you have them, so won't have medicated. It is, apparently, fairly unlikely you won't have had them at some point.