On the eve of my 700th post on Good Reason, I find myself in Singapore. (I’m presenting at a conference.)
The conference hasn’t started yet, though, so I’m taking a day to look around Singapore. My strategy is to fling myself into the hurtling stream of people and see where I wash up. It’s going well. By dinner time, I was in Vegetarian Central with a steaming plate of rice and fake meat. And root beer. For some reason, A&W Root Beer is unaccountably popular in Singapore. You can’t get the stuff in Australia because they think it tastes like medicine. Figure that: the people who happily gulp down lemon lime and bitters won’t touch root beer because they think it tastes ‘weird’.
This is an open thread. Where does today find you?
3 August 2009 at 2:47 pm
Is the root beer thing a southern hemisphere problem. You could not get root beer in Chile either. I actually was able to taste the children's medicine that has a root beer essence to it so I do understand. But I still like grape and orange soda's and thats what all my medicine tasted like as a child.
7 August 2009 at 10:00 pm
I'm watching a fab night of random blues greats on BBC4. Currently enjoying Buddy Guy preceded by Stone the Crows.
hope the presentation went down well!
9 August 2009 at 3:36 am
It went great! Important people asked polite interested questions. Thanks for axing!