Just Put Some Vicks on It
Podcast |
The Experiment
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
History
Society & Culture
USA
Categories Via RSS |
Documentary
Government
History
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Feb 24, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:27:17

The Experiment host Julia Longoria has always had a special relationship with Vicks Vaporub—the scent transports her right back to childhood, to days in bed with the flu at her grandmother’s house in South Florida. Julia and her cousins all knew not to tell grandma when they were sick, or they’d risk being slathered with “Vickicito.”

Julia never had a reason to wonder why grandma loved Vicks so much, but this week’s episode reveals that grandma’s love for the product is deeper than Julia imagined. And while investigating grandma’s (and the world’s) Vicks obsession, Julia is pulled into her family’s past, back to Cuba, before the revolution.

This story originally aired on Only Human, a show about health that we all can relate to. Because every body has a story.


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