Comments on: Pine Brothers Cough Drops are back!

By: Shell

Shell — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:04:42 +0000

So the company was sold and now they won’t be making any until January..
You have to be kidding me!
That would never have happened with the old company.
So they draw a stupid cartoon saying they love their customers, but……………
Ridiculous……

By: Edward L Loebs

Edward L Loebs — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:17:34 +0000

Yeah those new ones dod not taste like the old ones…ive bought 2 full boxes of cherry and honey pine bros. From the 50’s one may have been early 60’s. They had a white film over them,i rinsed ome off and it tasted excelant i wound up eating all of them.this was about 5 years ago.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 23:35:17 +0000

Are we all nuts? I thought only I loved Pine Bros. They DID return a few years ago (2-3 years ago?) but then mysteriously disappeared again. Now they seem to be back. Not crazy about the packaging bag. A few years ago they came in a neat 26-drops pack in a round reusable plastic box which I’ve not seen since the latest introduction. I’ve still got the round box and it’s much better than the bag for freshness. The taste? They do seem to be less potent but that could be an aging thing. Wouldn’t it be great if new flavors were introduced?

By: Edward loebs

Edward loebs — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 07:01:01 +0000

I loved pine bros starting in the 60’s until they were no more…The new ones from what I can tell are nowhere as good as I remembered…I’ve bought about 3 boxes on eBay from the 50’s and some from maybe the 70’s or 80’s they were full boxes and tasted soooo good..the ones I got from the 50’s Had a film over them, I just rinsed one under water and tried it Wow I could not believe how good it still was after so many years..I ate the whole box and was sad eating the last one.

By: Nick Cioppa

Nick Cioppa — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:11:03 +0000

I was a Pine Brother’s wild cherry cough drop junkie back in the day. Ate them like candy, not a cough drop. Definitely not the same flavor(formula). Back then they had more of a cherry concentrated flavor and also were a tad more sweeter. Although, I still like the flavor of todays, I now call it the diet cherry cough drop-LOL!

By: Stina Hughes

Stina Hughes — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:54:56 +0000

I can get them at my neighborhood Bartell’s Drug Store in Washington state nowadays and I am thrilled. I buy them out every time I purchase to let their buyers know that people want these things. I am not one to just eat them, but if I have a sort throat, they are my go to. Yay!

By: k

Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:39:05 +0000

a bag of 32 drops for $4.00 .local drug store , they are definitely not the same. Seems they use glycerin rather then slippery elm of days gone by . Established in 1870

By: Gregory S Smith

Gregory S Smith — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 00:01:36 +0000

Ever thought the taste isn’t similar because we are buying them up a week or two after production. Those boxes way back when would dry up and maybe that would augment the taste. Not sure but I spend too much on these weirdos and for some reason I am okay with it. If you know any singers these little miracles help singers’ pitch.

By: Brenda Hobbs

Brenda Hobbs — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 02:14:52 +0000

As I remember PB cough drops came in honey-lemon, cherry, licorice, and menthol. Menthol were in the assorted box. Cherry was my favorite!!! Then the Menthol ones!! Then honey-lemon! Licorice was my least favorite! Now they have Cherry, Honey, Lemon Citrus, and Licorice! They were a little less flavorful but they are getting better! But I really miss the Menthol ones! I liked them because they were soft without the eucalyptus that tickled my throat too much and made me cough more unlike the Menthol ones that were more flavor without the over powering eucalyptus like all Halls flavors! Plus I also liked the fact that if I needed them for more than a few days I didn’t feel the cuts and cracks on the roof of my mouth and tongue like I did with hard cough drops!!! I always needed them longer because I always ended up with bronchitis and would cough for a few months after a cold! I would cough so much teachers used to send me to the bubbler to get a drink of water but the coughing would just start again! SO HAPPY THEY ARE BACK!!!!!!!

By: Sarah L.

Sarah L. — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 22:51:23 +0000

HI, Thanks for posting about this. Any chance you still have the 50 year old package to copy and post the original ingredient list? Thank you!

By: Elissa

Elissa — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:14:13 +0000

Yes we have them in Va know at the CVS! I tried the honey flavor. The taste is a little off but still great! I will try the cherry next! If you can’t purchase them in Canada let me know. good luck finding them so glad they are back!

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:35:31 +0000

I’d never have guessed that the first on-line chat community I’d join would be one about Pine Bros. cough drops! Ineed I hadn’t thought of them for some 60 years. But I’m recovering from the flu, and have had a dry, scratchy throat that frequently brings on a cough that can become quite uncontrollable. In the drug store yesterday, stocking up on Fisherman’s Friend cough drops which momentarily ease the throat and stop the cough, I remembered Pine Bros. cough drops. Neither clerk had heard of them. Then I thought of Maynard’s wine gums, a candy, and bought those, as well as Fisherman’s Friend and Buckley’s syrup. The wine gums work better than either.

My Pine Bros. memories date from the mid-1950s when I was working as a TV interviewer. I had a throat and cough like the one I have now, and it had to be brought under control. I discovered that Pine Bros. were the only thing that worked. They even worked for laryngitis. Esp. the honey as I remember. I think Henry is right about the flavours available back then. They tasted good but didn’t tempt me as candy. I’ve remembered them for six decades because of their effectiveness. I’m in Canada and hoping Safeway here carries them. The wine gums work, but not as well as remember the Pine Bros. drops working.

Thanks to Mike and all the others involved in their return!

By: Chuckl

Chuckl — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 07:46:19 +0000

Wasn’t the original Pine Brothers factory located in Reading, Pennsylvania? I remember working a job in Reading in the early 1960’s near a railroad yard and there was an ancient factory nearby with an old, painted sign on the side of the building that read, “Pine Brothers Cough Drops.” I recall thinking,”I loved those as soon kid and this place looks like something from the 1800’s.”

By: deb

deb — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:08:58 +0000

Lying in bed on this cold November morning, I woke with a mildly dry sore throat. I thought of the good old days (70’s) when my Dad would have a box of Pine Bros softish throat drops in his top dresser drawer for such occasions. I remember pulling Dad aside to ask for a PB honey or cherry soother. I couldnt ask out loud because I had a younger sis (7yrs) & bro (4yrs) who would immediately pretend that they also had a dry scratchy throat. The drops were mostly a comfort item & if I was good, my Dad would often slip me one during church.
So this morn I picked up my smartphone while lying in bed, wishing for PB drops & I searched online. Your blog was the 1st link I clicked & excitedly (after a 30 year wait) I will drive to CVS on my way to church this morning to purchase both Honey & Cherry Pine Bros drops. (maybe I will even slip my kids a PB during church)
Thank you so much, this discovery has made my day!
P.S. I will be calling Dad with the news.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:21:15 +0000

I live in Rockland County NY where CVS carries them but have yet to see the long awaited licorice drops arrive? Have these even been produced because its been awhile since they stocked the cherry and honey ones and thought we would have seen licorice well before now? I agree with others back in the day the green menthols were pretty good too and I believe there was a combo box of licorice/green menthols? But still waiting for licorice. The same mixed results apply as cherry was better of the 2 that are out but both fall far from that wonderful real taste they once had. But hasnt everything changed as we have ourselves too? Perhaps including our own taste of flavors?