The “spoonful of sugar” in Mary Poppins (1964) was inspired by the practice of giving children a sugar cube with the oral polio vaccine dropped into the cube, making the medicine easier to take.

The “spoonful of sugar” in Mary Poppins (1964) was inspired by the practice of giving children a sugar cube with the oral polio vaccine dropped into the cube, making the medicine easier to take.

by cinemamama