Kazan — summer 2010

Now here's one I didn't expect. I went to the store hoping to buy Coke and Fanta. No Fanta. Instead I spot this bottle of cactus lime juice. Curious. Purchased. I took it home and tried some. Very tasty. I look at the ingredient list, and it includes the fruit of фруктовый кактус "Fruit Cactus." I've never come across that phrase before, but sure enough, just as the picture on the bottle suggested, it turns out to mean prickly pear cactus. Weird. I traveled across eleven time zones to have my first taste of prickly pear cactus fruit juice.