True. Unpleasant for me.
But posted in this thread in direct response to the other Raclette triers just above.
thx for triggering a good memory …
The softdrink that outsold Coke and Pepsi in Perú is called Inca Cola, is vitamin-piss colored and tastes like crappy kids chewing gum (when mixing all flavors together)…
yet there is something to it … 
(The CC company did the CC thing and bought the Inca C. company some years ago and now it is more widely available in LatAm …) … paging @Frodo: is I.C. also a thing in argentina?
IC is available at ordinary grocery stores here in Miami Florida USA. It was reasonably popular in Panamá a couple decades ago.
cool, for a splitsecond, I thought of you (you being: Florida Man / MIA, etc… - but ultimately forgot
and while at it: expanding to the other hispano-philes: @Pardel-Lux (and a couple of others I keep forgetting) … is it known in spain or through travels?
… so thx anyway for the answer … and interesting to see it creep north …
Nope, we know about it but is not sold anywhere (I go to a Peruvian restaurant occasionally (I love Peruvian food), next time I’ll ask if may be they have some)
I never saw this before. Looking around it seems they have no production sites in Europe, I guess importing a limo is not economically viable. They would need a plant to dilute the sirup, like Coca Cola does, I believe.
Update: a quick googling shows that you can buy it in selected places, or order it via our Amazon equivalent.
So is not generally available but you can get it if you put some effort on it.
I sampled it when we visited my daughter while she was in the Peace Corps in Peru. I thought it tasted like bubble gum. It was quite popular everywhere that we visited.
I have had no desire to try it again.
I enjoy an Inca Kola but only partake in the Peruvian restaurants. I don’t see it in the large grocers here (SW Chicago suburbs) but am confident I could find out if I looked. Probably more available on the north side where more Peruvians live. In the NoVA/DC area where my wife’s Peruvian family lives, it’s more readily available as there’s a larger population.
Anyway, it’s good but it’s good as a sometimes flavor, not something I need a case of.
I should have said something similar in my post upthread.
Namely that the availability of Inca Kola in Greater Miami mainstream name-brand grocery stores pretty well follows the ethnic mix of the neighborhoods. Not necessarily just Peruvians. But if half the patrons grew up speaking Spanish in their home, wherever it is/was, there’ll be Inca Kola on the shelves. And other non-US beverages too.
The same brand stores in lily-white neighborhoods loaded with immigrants from NY/NJ instead? Not so much.
I was in college before I tried a bagel. Delicious!
They do have it at the big grocers like Kroger/Mariano’s and Walmart but it’s near the regional foods and easy to overlook.
I work with a Peruvian fellow and see him drinking it at the office but I don’t think I’ve tried it.
Could be, I probably only looked by the specialty sodas out of curiosity if it was available. Didn’t think to look in the ethnic foods aisles.
I think they’re usually loose cans like some other import soft drinks like Irn-Bru & Irish Moss. I went on the hunt for Schweppes Bitter Lemon over the summer and found it in single talls like Red Bull in some import aisles.
you know In n out has now expanded way beyond California, including Texas and Tennessee, so I wonder if the quality will go down (and their reputation). I also wonder why White Castle basically has not expanded beyond the Mississippi, except Las Vegas
Yep. But their store count is ~250 in SoCal, 100 in NorCal, and exactly 3 in TN, all in Nashville. TX has ~25 in Dallas, & ~10 each in San Antonio and Austin for a total of ~45. They’re also in Denver, Salt Lake City, several cities in Arizona and finally Las Vegas Nevada.
So yes, they are trying to expand. And may well succeed. But beyond CA & the adjacent desert states it’s early days yet.
I remember trying asparagus and sweet pickles (separately) for the first time when I was 11, while flying on an Allegheny Airlines DC-3 in the spring of 1966. I fell in love with both of them immediately.
I think I had lobster too for the first time that summer in the restaurant at a Holiday Inn. Drenched in butter, I thought it was the best thing ever.
I really miss the deep-fried breaded clams I had at a Howard Johnson’s ca. 1968. Their Welsh rarebit with bacon and lots of gooey cheese was good too. 
Fascinating. The very city I was thinking of. Over 30 years ago I went to the Netherlands for work, and all the Dutch engineers hated Amsterdam. We went anyhow, it was good but it was almost impossible to find Dutch food, and they rolled up the sidewalks at 9 pm. (We had come from Madrid, where dinner started at 9 pm.)
My wife and I stayed there a few days before a cruise and I liked it much better. But the think I didn’t know I liked before I tried was octopus, which I had at a restaurant near the university recommended to us by the concierge at the hotel. Delicious.
Though I read about octopus later, and now I feel like a cannibal.
I had octopus cooked in tomato sauce at a Greek restaurant when I was living in England many years ago.
Delicious, but a bit rubbery too. 