Being in the throes of a very bad case of bronchitis and having had recent experience, I think I can state with complete accuracy that there is no worse taste on Earth than NyQuil. I have spent all week trying to come up with something whose flavor is more vile and I have yet to find a substance, edible or non-, that is comparable.

And it doesn't matter if it is original or cherry flavor. They both induce the gag reflex. You take it and then you're running around the bathroom doing The Worm screaming "alech" for five minutes. And they both have an aftertaste that lasts for 72 hours. Regardless of what kind of chaser you use. You can hold your nose, do the shot of NyQuil, not breathe for 30 seconds and then eat a jar of herring and you will still taste only the NyQuil.

Perhaps a logical solution would be to just take the "Valley of the Dolls" approach and try the liquicaps instead. This is crap. The liquicaps take at least an hour to start working. When your symptoms are severe enough to necessitate the horror that is NyQuil, you want instant relief. At least with liquid NyQuil you know you will feel better in 15 minutes.

I recall Dennis Leary once describing the taste of NyQuil as "green death". Funny, sure but this does not do justice to exactly how horriffic it actually is. Let me paint a picture:

If there had been a Satanic Last Supper, and the Devil himself had held up a goblet to his demonic disciples and said "Take this, all of you, and drink from it...", the goblet would have contained NyQuil. For it is the very substance that courses through Lucifer's veins. It is what pure evil tastes like.

Proctor and Gamble should put that on the bottle.