Back in my high school days, there used to be this small restaurant right around the corner called 'Da Soup Shack'. I used to hit it up for beef patties at lunch sometimes, and it was there that I discovered the amazingness that is Ting. It is a grapefruit soda from the Caribbean, and it is incredibly delicious. I'm pretty sure it's also synonymous with refreshment down here; even Senka in Cool Runnins' is drinking a Ting when he's preparing for the push cart derby (two blog posts in a row that reference the movie?) Now, the Ting that I used to get came in a small green bottle with a green and yellow label. You can also get Ting in a can, too. For the most part, things taste better in glass bottles. It wasn't until I got a beef patty and a Ting from Crandall's (more on this later) that I noticed a legitimate difference between the bottled and canned product.
The canned version of Ting claims to be made with real Jamaican grapefruit, where as the bottled version is made with real Caribbean grapefruit. Not much of a difference seeing as Jamaica is in the Caribbean. The bottled Ting has little bits of pulp floating in it though, and has a much nicer flavour than the canned Ting. Upon closer investigation of the labels, bottled Ting is a product of St. Kitts & Nevis, yet the canned Ting is a product of the UK and imported back into the Caribbean!! So really the canned Ting, though quite delicious, is really an impostor compared to Ting in a bottle. Once again proving the all things are better in bottles.
On a side note, Ting is great mixed with rum, vodka or gin! Whatever you like, Ting goes well with it. It's actually a rather popular drink down here, though I had discovered this prior to arriving, thanks to the Tings left in the fridge at Daniel's house. Don't you worry Danny boy, there will be plenty of Rum and Tings going around when you get here in February.
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