Fisherman Friends are truly your best friends.

My throat feels terrible and I reach into that heavenly packet and pull out some hideously ugly tablet shaped lozenger. I brace myself for that revolting taste and jump into the deep end, placing the thing in my throat. For a second I taste that ominous taste and then as if my mouth goes numb the pain from the cold has vanish. I feel normal and that is the magic of fisherman's friend.