The Plague of 2015

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Poll #16508 The Plague, Part Wev

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So apparently not even a throat so sore your doctor swabbed you for strep gets you out of having to eat a food occasionally if you don't want to feel horrible.

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... seems legit
27 (51.9%)

No, wait, how is that possible? I demand a recount!
25 (48.1%)

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[recessional]

I really resented that when I had strep.

[graydon]

Yes. Preferably before you start seeing visions.

Cool consommé time?

[commodorified]

Scorching tea, and yoghurt. And, oddly, olives, though NOT with the yoghurt, which is lime flavoured. I am not Creek.

[graydon]

Considering that in and around Westcreek it's be sheep's-milk yoghurt, if there was yoghurt (lactase no problem for Creeks, they're a butter-and-cheese culture), and olives are a Foreign Foodstuff, I can't imagine that even were you a Creek anyone would expect you to consume olives with your yoghurt. (And consommé-ing olives with your yoghurt is Just Wrong.)

Olives are a compact cool way to get a lot of nutrients and some electrolytes.

[commodorified]

The POINT, however, is that I should be magically nourished and sustained in this crisis without having to chew or *shudder* swallow.

[lexin]

I totally loathed that when I had strep. I lived on warm porridge.

[kinetikatrue]

*with the caveat that it should all be food that can essentially be poured down one's gullet with a minimum of swallowing involved. Because certainly being asked to swallow is beyond the pale under those circumstances.

[sara]

You and my work-partner both. Ugh, I am sorry.

[mmegaera]

My mother's sovereign food remedy for this situation was canned peaches and cottage cheese (together). This is relatively nourishing and will slide down your throat without need for swallowing.

I had strep throat four times as a child (spring and fall of second grade, spring and fall of third grade, home sick from school a couple of weeks each time), so I have a great deal of experience with this remedy (and I still think of peaches and cottage cheese as comfort food to this day).

Hope you feel better soon.

[krait]

I feel your pain -- I was the poster child for step throat as a kid! Had it so many times I don't know why they bothered doing a test swab after a while; so many time I eventually had to have my tonsils & adenoids removed! -- and wish you many easy-to-swallow noms while you fight the good fight!

(While I hope you never have to suffer it again... Do you know the trick to not gagging while being strep tested? I try to pass it on to everybody who's at some risk of strep testing, because it was such a great thing for little!me when some kind doctor told it to me back then! Here is the trick: pant like a dog while the swab's in your mouth. It will keep your gag reflex in check!)