The Kitchen Bitch's recently posted find of a framed cereal taxonomy at a Minnesota Value Village brought me instantly back to the health room at my elementary school. Above the brown pleather bed hung a framed collection of drugs alongside candies that looked so similar that you might be fooled. I'm sure the point was to warn parents that kids may think medicine are candy, but how many parents were spending any amount of time in the school health room to notice this informative sign?
There was Nuprin ("little, yellow, different") and a yellow M&M. Some other pill that was small and yellow was beside something that looked like a Nerd. The aspirin affixed to the background but it's candy counterpart had been ripped off (the dangers of having candy in accessible locations in an elementary school), though I imagine it must have been something like a Smartie. What else is white and kind of chalky? There was also something red and a Reeses Pieces beside it. The frame was just high enough and the words small enough that it was hard to read from more than a foot or two away. The Advil looked remarkably similar to the now-defunct tan M&M.
I found this whole collection transfixing and even remember thinking that I might like to make something similar for my own room. The collection, always a little worse for the wear despite being at a new school, likely no longer exists other than in my head.
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