The checkout counters look a bit like modern ones but back then one couldn't buy some bubble gum there.

付款处看起来和现代超市里的没什么两样，可是后面似乎没有泡泡糖可以买。

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Like so many other spirits, I was first introduced to the cane spirit during college after it had been blended (poorly) into a trash can filled with sparkly carbonated stuff a ton of artificial fruit juices, some citrus that I think was left over from the previous year, bubble gum and some hard candies with ice bought at the gas station up the street.

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