What Is That?!

      I was sitting at the table, minding my own business, when my mom walks in with a bag full of groceries.
    "What do you have, Mom?" I asked intently.
    "Oh, just the usual.  Fruits, vegetables, meat, and strawberry syrup."
    "Oh.  Can I try some?"
    "Sure," my mom replied.
    I got out a bowl and put some ice cream into it.  I then poured the syrup onto it.  As soon as I put it into my mouth, I started gagging with disgust.
    "Oh my gosh!  What's the matter?" my mom asked urgently.
    "Oh nothing," I said as I abruptly stopped gagging, "I just was gagging because this syrup tastes like cough syrup!  It's horrid!  It's not red, syrupy food!  It's horrific cough syrup!"
    "Fine, I'll just throw it away, just don't scare me like that again."
    Luckily, I have never seen strawberry syrup again.

    But that could change...