Heathen scum! neither of you know of which you speaketh
I think Gee's in particular is pretty tasty, I don't chase it down in one, just drink it bit by bit, to enjoy the flavour, although the J.Collis Browne's, that I do just gulp in one, but its a small bottle, 100ml. Not something I would drink by choice, if it contained no opiates, but not what I would call foul...Gee's, take the squill and opiates out of it and I bet I could come up with some pretty good cocktails given some ethanol, my labware and a selection of herbs and spices.
I'm not sure if anywhere near me does Gee's anymore, haven't had it in a couple of years, might have to get some online and experiment...hmmm....I reckon liquorice-infused, sweetened vodka, a schnapps sort of concoction would be pretty tasty, and perhaps with star anise, or fennel.
Anyone ever tried those gee's linctus pastilles? small, sugarcoated, translucent jelly-tot type things, only spiked with tincture of opium. Not sure what the alkaloid content per box is though, but they are really nice on top of other opiates, or a few boxes worth to munch on over the course of a blazing session, whats more, nobody looks twice at you if you stuff a handfull of candy in your mouth while you are walking through manchester town center, but whilst nobody has ever said anything, chugging a few bottles of cough syrup and dumping the bottles in the bin has got me a few looks from the plod, and now and again from actual real people.
There are three codeine linctus varieties here, one ever so slightly stronger than the other two, an orange flavour plain codeine linctus, which is fucking disgusting, and another which is flavoured with chloroform which tastes pretty good (probably isn't good for one's liver though), the stronger one (by 2mg-5/10ml or something like that) is terpin and codeine linctus, that stuff is fucking vile, full of terpin hydrate, pine turps basically.
If paint thiners and eucalyptus were to have a bastard child together, that is what it would taste like. Makes me very nauseated though in sufficient doses to do much (my favoured dose of codeine is 600mg-one bottle of most of the varieties available, more is of no use metabolically speaking)
And theres the other significant one, Pulmo Bailly cough mixture, that stuff never gives me any nausea, but tastes fucking AWFUL, very very astringent, bitter and resinous tasting, slightly like the smell of pencil shavings only many orders of magnitude stronger, and fouler.