thesodafizz
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The Phillippine bottle is also a good one, not seen often.
When I was in Singapore, the Phillippines were a boat ride away (with or without passport or Visa....hehe) and someone had emailed me wanting me to get them one of these amber bottles. I was there, tho, when the terrorist idiots were kidnapping Americans and beheading them. The Phillippines were not a place for a very fair blonde to be - so no amber SevenUp treks were made.
Knowing the area, tho, they are probably still bottling it in returnable bottles. These small, poorer, countries do not have the resources for landfill and many of them still use returnable bottles. I still remember walking behind the food courts on the void decks of the buildings and seeing case after case of empty beer bottles waiting to be picked up. Tiger Beer, bottled in Singapore I think, was a local favorite. It was sold in quarts, and you could see the old Chinese men in their shorts, sitting in the food courts drinking it from the quart bottle (we had one that kept peeing in our elevator - eeew, nasty). Too bad I didn't pick up some of the mugs left on the tables from the night before. Could have probably sold them on eBay....they were cool looking. There, the "local" Coca-Cola company (probably in Malaysia) bottled Fanta in the same contoured bottles as Coke. They called root beer Sarsaparilla because if they put root beer on the labels, no one would buy it. They had a drink there called 100 Plus that I loved. A clear citrus drink formulated to replace what you lose when you sweat and keep you from getting dehydrated. It was also in the contour bottles. No bottles in Singapore worth keeping - either PET ones or cans. Now they had cool cans. I "distributed" quite a few of the aluminum bottle cans for the World Cup, etc., (long before Green Label Art) but these came to us from Japan. (They also have cool anime ones.) You could pick them up anywhere for a buck (Singapore buck, that is, which is smaller than the other bills and yellow, the fives are blue and I think the 10s were teal colored and the 20s were pink, or something like that). Hardly anyone carries $ there - everything is done by POS cards or electronic transfers - for which, if you didn't have a computer, there were koisks for. I only kept cash for the food courts and veggie/fruit stands.
Anyway, enough about that. It just fascinated me to live in a foreign country. Until I did, I niavely thought because it was the late 1990s into the early 2000s, everyone did things like we did. That didn't last long.......
SIngapore was beautiful, but too hot. (And too many rude Chinese people.)
K
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