Strange…I’d never heard of IRN-BRU until our recent trip to Edinburgh, so I assumed it was an exclusively Scottish [ahem] delicacy. But I just saw a pile of it in our local grocery store.

And in the same visit, I had a common Maritime myth shattered (or at least modernized): King Cole tea in Toronto. I’d always thought you can’t get it outside of Atlantic Canada (since that’s what the ads used to say), but there it was…boxes of it.

Things change. Economies globalize. Tastes travel.

Shit, I guess when we live in an era where bank tellers discuss Jeff Jarvis’ problems with Dell in a Toronto food court, it’s time to acknowledge that the world has shrunk.