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Posted in Technology by Greg Ross on October 2nd, 2008

http://www.google.com/patents?id=xYRHAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA25&dq=tongue+shield&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=0_1#PPA26,M1

In 1920, Gaitley Guise patented a rubber “tongue shield” to prevent “the unpleasantness accompanying the taking of medicine.”

“Medicine will flow over the shield and pass into the throat without affecting the sense of taste so that all unpleasantness of taking the medicine is obviated.”

Presumably it also works with broccoli.