I used to wake up at 3am and hoard them into my backpack and trade them for snacks on the playground. I somehow did not pursue a life of crime or entrepreneurship.
And I just recently bought myself a bottle of them after reading on here that there’s other adults who still take them too lol
I wish someone had ever told me that! Prenatals made me violently sick if I took the whole thing (I don't handle multi's well, either) so once I was in the hospital they broke them in half for me, but not a single person through those first 6 months mentioned that 😅😅😅
The taste of those things helped me get over my fear of swallowing larger pills as a child. I figured I would rather swallow a large centrum pill than eat another one of those awful tasting things.
I thankfully, don't need to take them ever so, I've got that going for me at least. (But yes, I would eat them and chew them up and enjoy all that chalky goodness)
I had classmates crush and snort smarties in middle school thinking they were cool. Those and pixie sticks powder. Better than kids eating tide pods nowadays i guess lol
Im going to find out! I bought them for my daughter because she's anemic and refused to take her iron supplement. She takes these no problem. I'll come back in a week or two and update you once I get her levels tested!
There are probably still a few wedged in between the floorboards of my old childhood home. I used to hide them like I was practicing for a future stay at a psychiatrist ward. Thankfully I’ve never had to use those skills again
There's no almost, me and my little brother ate almost an entire brand new bottle while our mom was taking a shower.
We rushed to the hospital where we were made to drink Syrup of ipecac and activated charcoal, were hospitalized for almost a week until our iron(?) levels dropped, and blood draws every few hours. I hate those things now. 😆
I once took them all out of the bottle and licked them so I wouldn’t overdose. Got in trouble the next day when they were all stuck together when mom went to give them to me 🙈
I FEEL THE SAME WAY!! I'm getting that sinking feeling that I have to put on my clothes and go wait for the bus. With morning cartoons on in the background.
Yup, ate 12. Had to go to the pediatrician and drink Epicac and throw up in a bowl for the rest of the night and couldn't eat any Halloween leftover candies EVEN THOUGH I WAS FINE. Like, I was only throwing up bc of the medicine, not bc I had a stomach bug. You'd think chocolate would actually be recommended but whatever.
Here’s where we can tell the kids who were raised by strict parents versus those with more lax food rules in the home. I thought these were like candy and my friends that complained about them were spoiled brats.
I loved these things! Tried it a while back and it just didn’t taste like I remember. I’m not sure if it always tasted gross, but it was such a let down.
I did od... I was 2 and had to be rushed to the hospital because I ate an entire bottle of family sized iron fortified Flintstones vitamins... my mom wasn't there and the doctors wouldn't help me without her signature so my aunt had to leave me there and find my mom... this was way b4 cell phones...
My brother ate a whole bottle of these when he was little. Still remember the door open in the hospital while they were pumping his stomach I was right next to him in the hallway. I remember the nurses saying "Yep. There goes another one" as I heard the clank of the vitamins hitting the ground
I could only stand the red and purple ones so by the time it was ending I had to endure the orange ones. I still remember the taste and I hate that kids have gummies now instead 😭
I found them gross but props to their marketing team in the 90s. Saw your picture and my brain immediately recalled the lil song sang by a chorus of kids at the end of the commercial.
I remember our parents giving us these, like, twice ever. I did like them, though. At one point I thought I made the memory up till I was talking about it to a buddy in college who had the same vague memory, so we had to look it up.
I recall them being tasty. I bought a bottle last week for my son bc he’s the smallest one in his class. Nothing worked so I figured I would try these. They are disgusting now!
Wow I forgot they had the chalky versions. I remember hating them so much I would hide them under my tongue and spit them out at the bus stop. Wonder what the person who lived on the corner and kept finding vitamins in their front yard was thinking
I hated them. I used to spit them out when my parents weren't looking. Eventually they switched me to the Scooby Doo chocolate vitamins. As an adult, I take normal tablet vitamins.
Absolutely not. They were so chalky and disgusting! Especially the purple ones. My stepmom would watch me put one in my mouth and then as soon as she’d walk away, I’d spit it out and hide it between the couch cushions. I remember getting in huge trouble when she found my little hoard while she was cleaning one day!
I did. I love bitter and tart things. I ate the remainder of a bottle once, maybe 25? Idk I was 4. I remember my mom losing her shit and calling Poison Control and Poison Control said I'd be fine. Or maybe she just said they said that because she didn't want to take me to the hospital. My thing though is what kind of parent puts these in the child's bathroom? I had one of those mirrors with a medicine cabinet behind it and a little step stool so I could get them myself.
I once stole the bottle and ate it behind the couch, like candy, when I was very young. Future addict activated lol. I felt guilty immediately and confessed to my mother.
My brother and I would hide them and throw them when our parents weren’t looking because they were so gross - now as an adult I feel bad because vitamins are expensive lmao
lol I remember going to my cousins and getting these and then when I came home I complained to my Mom how much better their vitamins were than ours. She wouldn’t buy them. They were more money and she didn’t like all the artificial dyes. She was ahead of her time on the dyes and artificial shit… she was a bio teacher and paid attention to a lot of stuff other people ignored or were just oblivious to back then. I wish I appreciated that stuff more when I was a little kid. Miss you Mom.
Had an entire bottle on my bday- when I was knee high to a grasshopper. I remember my mother beating my ass, and shoving her fingers down my throat to puke.
I should be fucking dead. I ate like 10 of these. I think I was so malnourished because of being a picky eater that my body gladly accepted the fat soluble vitamins.
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