1) You are over the counter. For some reason the government has decided to let you be available to everyone with out a prescription.
2) You make me feel good. I don’t know how you do it but taking a bottle of you and washing it down with a beer makes the night become magical. Music has deeper meanings, I see things in slow motion, I feel like nothing in the world matters.
3) Your taste makes me feel alive. Sure, it might not be the best taste in the world but when I take you I know that in a few short hours I will be high on a cloud.
4) You make me feel better when I am sick, but really, who takes Nyquil for that?
All of it’s true. Nyquil is a magical drug that everyone abuses. You mention it to anyone and the response is always along the lines of “Oo.. Nyquil, I love that stuff”. Be it the woman working in a publishing company call center or a college kid, everyone has a love for the Big Q. Denis Lery even had it as part of his comedy routine, as did Jay Mohr. Even if you take Nyquil for the times you are actually sick you still are thinking in the back of your mind that you like the way it knocks you out. Face it, its good stuff.
So why then would they take all the goodness out of Nyquil and try to sell it to us with a new, yet familiar, name? Money, that’s why. Which brings us to our current review..
Dayquil Sinus (stock footage, I never got around to taking a picture of the box). It’s new, it has a super bright orange box, a big “NEW!” with red around it in the top right corner, how was a person like me to resist? Add into that mix me being sick when I was in the store shopping and it was a perfect opportunity to give myself an excuse to buy something new.
(Insert image of orange pills here, but alas, I didn’t download them off my camera phone yet, so maybe tomorrow, instead here is an artist rendition)So there they are, two orange liquid caps. Nothing really special there. They are orange, they are pills, and you swallow them. Exciting, eh? They are supposed to take away your sinus problems and make it so you are not the big mess that I was last week. Problem is I can never tell if this stuff works. By the time they are supposed to be kicking in I have blown my nose so many times that I have nothing left in me. Is it the medicine or is it just that I have, like I said, blown my nose so many times that I have nothing in me? Meh.But what makes these pills different then any of the other pills out there? Um, uh.. nothing. The active ingredients are the same as just about every other sinus medication out there so if you just look on the back of one of these boxes you can compare them to just about everything else. What makes the difference is the box, the color of the pills, the name, and most importantly, the price.
Like I was saying before, there is no reason for this to be a “quil” product. It’s all for a name. You see the product in the store, you see the “Quil” on there, and you think “Oh gee, I know that brand! I bet it’s good!” So you buy it, you take it, and that’s that. There is no magical passing out, there is no definite confirmation that it works, it’s just another drug to take.
A rating? I suppose 3. I am sure it works, it has the medication in it, and that’s about that. Should you buy it? Only if it’s cheaper then a comparable product, and I am sure your local store has it’s own generic version for cheaper.
Posted by LordJezo
I poured some out into my hand to see what this box of cheer contained. The first thing I noticed was that there are not a whole lot of yogurt covered pieces in there. Maybe 1 for every 20, but using my super small sample size of about 25 I don't think it's too scientific. I got worried that the whole yogurt thing was just a gimmick (which it is) and that they were trying to get out of giving us any yogurt pieces. But lets pour a bowl and find out. Looking at the picture I took it seems that my 1 for every 25 theory is totally busted, but hey, like I said, it's not too scientific. Maybe just the first handfull comes out lacking but if you keep working it you will get a bowl filled with yogurt goodness.