Other countries make the best sodas

Well, sort of. I was in Atlanta last year to see Tom Waits live, and even though I forgot my official Cool Guy Tom Waits Hat (otherwise known as pork pie hats, I believe), I had a magical evening. Earlier in the day, before the show, my companion and I visited the World of Coca-Cola. It's probably really fucking great if you're an avid Coca-Cola fan -- and inexplicably those people exist -- but otherwise it's the only way you can get into their tasting area, where you're invited to taste test a shitload of sodas from around the world, arranged geographically.

In the end, I think my total international soda count was at thirty-three sodas, and I continued to feel the ill effects for the remainder of the day. I swear to God that at one point I was hallucinating. Anyway, in addition to discovering that it's a terrible idea to consume that much soda in one day, I also learned that other parts of the world -- particularly Africa and Europe -- apparently love disgusting soda flavors.

Brazil and Thailand are two notable exceptions as they've produced two of the best sodas I've ever had in my life: Antarctica Guarana and Mirinda Green Cream, respectively. I'm not going to prattle on and on for five or six paragraphs about how they taste like some dickhead food blogger, especially it can be summed up by reading the fucking can, but I'm going to suggest that you do whatever it is you need to do to your hands on them and help you on your journey by posting extremely helpful photos of their cans.

The picture of the Mirinda can was taken by me, and the picture of the Antarctica can was stolen from the Internet (I'd never rock a fake marble countertop).