The reappearance of Green Spot
When I was a boy, during the summers in Great Barrington, Mass., my mother used to take us to the Green Spot bottling plant in town where Maybe 40 years ago, they shut down the plant and that was the end of Green Spot for us.
This afternoon in Singapore, at a food stall in Little India, I drank a can of Green Spot. It’s the same oddly-named, non-carbonated orange drink. The can says it was made in Thailand under the authority of Green Spot International. It seems that, somehow, Green Spot left Great Barrington and landed in Asia.
Ealy globalization? A soft drink whose boot heels went a-wanderin’? Or a Twilight Zone episode in which objects from my childhood reappear in Singapore like the pilots returned by the aliens at the end of Close Encounters?
(A little more info about Green Spot. Another Green Spot reminiscence.)
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When I was 9 I lived in Cambodia and drank Green Spot EVERY day! I loved it! I have been trying to find that great taste ever since I moved back to the states. I wish it was available here! I’d walk 20 miles for a bottle of Green Spot (or ride my Vespa)!
My father used to sell the bottling equipment to the Green Spot Company and we always had plenty of it around the house. My brother and I were raised on it. That was over 50 years ago. I now live in Thailand where I can get as much of it (cans or bottles) as I want (it still tastes the same!). I recently visited the States and my brother insisted that I bring a can of it with me for him. It lasted less than five minutes after I arrived. I would love to figure out a way to get a case of it to my brother in Atlanta. Any ideas?