I used to love wintergreen flavored candy, not I'm disgusted with wintergreen flavor for life and I think the flavor wintergreen is absolutely horrifying. At some point in my life, I had to take some freaking antibiotic because of a bacteria. The antibiotic made me sick, I was feeling awful, I had diarrhea and I was vomitting. I had to take Pedialyte (contrary to popular belief, it can be used by both adults and kids) because I was dehydrated, I hate the taste of fruit flavor Pedialyte (it's supposed to taste like fruit punch but the taste is awful) and my mother made me drink that one when I was a kid because there was no other flavor back then so I looked for other flavors at the drug store and chose to try blue raspberry flavor and that one tastes good so I had no problem drinking it (I drank a bit of it on a regular basis for about a week and plenty of water too). The grape flavor one tastes great too and that one is my little nephew's favorite.
The thing is. the doctor who gave me that antibiotic sent me to the drug store and the pharmacist said it would most likely upset my stomach and that I had to take it with Pepto bismol, and I became so fed up with the taste of Pepto bismol that every time I see wintergreen flavored candy or wintergreen flavored anything, I cringe and feel nuseous and repulsed. I much prefer fruit blend Gaviscon but I couldn't take that with the kind of antibiotic they gave me. I also had to take Bio-K+ probiotics (which is freaking expensive). After 6 days of my antibiotics making me so sick that I could hardly eat and sleep I had to quit and go back to my doctor for advices, I kept taking Bio-K+ though because I had to take another antibiotics, for my ear infection this time, and the doctor and my mother convinced me to take it because I was scared I was scared that this other antibiotic make me horribly sick too just like the other one, but that one didn't make me sick like the other one so I felt relieved.
Now I hate the taste of wintergreen. I used to like it and it reminded me of the pink wintergreen mints my grandpa gave me when I was a kid. But now, sadly, I'm disgusted with the flavor of wintergreen for life. I've heard of people who developed disgust and repulsion to something after a bad experience, like a girl who is now disgusted with strawberry flavor because a strawberry drink made her sick after during her cancer treatment. So I know I'm not the only one.