Gee, tough choice!

One of the questions that continues to surprise me and Theresa is when we order a drink – a beer, a soda, a mineral water – and the waitress asks: Warm or cold? At first this one really gave us a jolt. “Uh – let me think about it minute. Here we are on the equator, it is humid and pushing 90 degrees, and the sun is beating down on this sidewalk table. What the heck – let’s have it cold!”

But it is apparently not an idle question. When I was in Nairobi, I had drinks a few times with my friend Peter, a Ugandan now living and working in Kenya. Whether he was ordering a Tuskers Malt (the best-known beer of Kenya) or a Coke, he would order not one bottle, but two: one cold, one warm. And then he would mix them until, Goldilocks-like, it was jussssst right.

Now that is a man with a refined sense of drink temperature.