As a native New Yorker living in the Hub, ChezNiki has spent years trying to understand the local cultcha, from buying only Polar Seltzer to getting a job at the state Senate. But she reports she's done researching - she actually tried Moxie and enough's enough:

... It tastes like cough medicine, Malta and feet! It was first created locally as a medicine back in the 1800s, called "Moxie Nerve Food" and contains Gentian Root. I think the medical part is a deterrent. You make sure you stay well, so you wont have to drink that stuff! ...

More Moxie hate.

Paintingloftcom tries some Moxie:

... If Dante were around today I am sure he would have put moxie in the seventh layer of hell!!