Originally published at: How to prepare gogl-mogl, a Jewish cold remedy for the ages - Boing Boing
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Does it relieve cold symptoms though?
Couldn’t hurt.
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I think they drink about 800 of them in the movie version of Nabokov’s Despair.
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I always recommend hot tea with honey and lemon for cough and cold (and echinacea tea is my go-to) for symptomatic cold relief, which even has a bit of science behind it.
I could see this being in that same vein. Works as well as any OTC meds, which is a very low bar, and is essentially side-effect free and pretty cheap. So, win-win-win. If it was my kid, I might pass on the boozy versions, though!
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Great Gogly-Mogly! Is Homer Simpson Jewish?
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I think Xander used the term in at least one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well.
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These were common in my house as a child, and rather delicious as I recall. I only recall them being hot milk with a lot of honey; my family was always been a bit iffy about eggs in drinks.
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Huh, I thought it was Frank Zappa 
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Yeah, viscous drinks are not my bag, either. Especially when over sweetened like Puerto Rican Coquito. Save the sweetened, condensed milk and just give me the rum, please.
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It’s not a Snickers. TV lied to me!
There is a new version with Kansas City’s coach Andy Reid for Allstate Insurance. Same Goggly moggly line.
From the name I would have pegged it as a Klingon cold remedy. But if it were a Klingon medication, it would be 1000% NOT Kosher. 
Honestly, this sounds like the worst thing for a cold.
It is basically a big glass of phlegm.
I would go with a hot lemon 
drink, or a SE Asian hot/sour soup with lots of lime, garlic and chilli.
Also name-checked in Evolution (2001):
Not long after that the same character says “Mazel tov, it’s a boy”.
My most beloved wife, of Ashkenazi descent, had also not heard of it, but it’s definitely there in The Encyclopedia of Jewish Food.
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