I didn't FIND the morph pills I used earlier, or the ones I'm prepping my bed-time shot with now, I knew where they were, on a shelf I usually keep them on, with my box of rigs on the shelf just underneath for easy access.
But I've lost some a fair few times, and if its just one, two or a few of them I can compensate with other easily available things, or oral morphine in the form of an over the counter cough mixture, so I don't suffer any withdrawal symptoms (been having to take opioid analgesics for quite a large span of years, over a decade now with no sign of anybody going to fix my knee or hip permanently, other than one failed surgery on my knee), when I find a pile of pain pills later though either when I'm in dire need, or even better, after I get my next RX, leaving me free to do what I like with the ones I find, its always a treat
I have found quite a lot of the other, sugar-based kind of candy too though. I have a very sweet tooth indeed. I'm STILL finding individual lemon flavour boiled sweets from a packet that split open a couple of weeks ago.
Anybody with lots of free/spare/unwanted candy feel free to send it my way!
I find that the combination of sedating (antimuscarinic effects) antihistamine, the three kinds of pain pills, well, capsules, I have to take daily along with two (nor)adrenaline release-inhibiting meds (clonidine, taken to prevent overloading, and tizanidine, a damn strong relaxer of voluntary muscle to stop the otherwise constant cramp I have in the worse of my two legs, both act the same way, as alpha2-adrenoreceptor agonists, effectively working by slamming the brakes on [nor]adrenaline release both can cause quite severe drymouth, so drinking a lot of fluid aside, I like to always have some hard, long-lasting candy to nibble on, the longer the better; my favourites being 'nigroids' which are little tiny slightly rectangular shaped liquorice extract pellets, spiked with capsaicin, the main substance responsible for giving chilli peppers their fire, which here seem only to be found in pharmacies rather than in sweet shops; coltsfoot or liquorice rock, cough drops of more or less any kind, barley sugar or cough candy twists, aniseed balls, these clearish-translucent and rockhard lemon boiled sweets, stockley's is the brand I think, but I can't remember for sure, and I especially love sarsaparilla, rhubarb and custards, or pear drops, with their delicious scent of n-pentyl and hints of ethyl acetate.
I don't much go in for chocolate though, but I do enjoy the very highest quality stuff, dark chocolate with at the very least, 80% cocoa, 85% even better. One of my local supermarkets stocks wide bars of thin squares of this really high cocoa chocolate, with other stuff added in there, such as lime or orange oil, chilli pepper (MY FAVOURITE!), that is lovely and bitter, and darker than the bum crack of a covert prisoner of the CIA in a secret african detention facility during the middle of a solar eclipse.
I actually find a lot of milk chocolate almost nauseatingly sickly in all but small amounts (E.g coatings on stuff). Good chocolate to me, is dark enough that your average nigerian racist would shout 'oi! white boy, cracker' to their countrymen by comparison, were it to incarnate in human form
Chocolate-wise, other than solid high cocoa dark chocolate, then my favourite would have to be those wafer thin 'after eight' mints. One time I got a box of those from I think, my grandmother, for xmas as a kid, and after offering them round the family gathering, scoffed the remaining lot, which was 99% of the entire box, one after another, or by the odd handful. Very satisfying it was too
Of all the soft candy types about, I like the really tough and chewy varieties of liquorice the best, especially salmiak-a norse-bloc area speciality, salted liquorice with ammonium chloride, and liquorice generously spiked with hot chilli peppers.
And any sweets made with honey, I love the taste, and scent of honey, which I always use instead of sugar, assuming I have any, to sweeten my cups of tea. Honey flavoured candies are some I find very, very, very moreish indeed. Can't have just the one bag.
