Before I start rambling on about today’s escapades I must explain the title of this post. Since Ranting Jamaican is a pretty long addition to every title I have decided to abbreviate. From now on wherever I was going to type Ranting Jamaican in the title I will instead type RJ. Hope you all like it that way because that’s how it’s gonna be!
Anyways today I was doing some more digging on the possibility of getting Red Vines in Taipei because my Ebay Red Vines have not arrived yet. Still no luck on the Red Vines but I found a somewhat OK substitute. As I was searching I found a post on www.forumosa.com (a good place to get info on Taiwan). Haha get it? Forumosa, Formosa? Anyways I found out that I could get Twizzlers in Taipei!
So after a search for the location on a Chinese language map and an English one (because google has everything in Chinese characters and I had to match crap up blah blah blah) I found the location of Wellman’s import store. Basically you take the Red line towards Beitou and Danshui and get off at the Zhishan exit. From here we had to walk east on Fuhua Rd. and make a left on Zhongshan N. Road. The place was like a mile and half walk down Zhongshan N. Road. Boy was it a long walk. When we finally arrived at Wellman’s a choir of Angels sang Hallelujah then I went in and bought my twizzlers.
Wellman’s, of course, sells a lot more than twizzlers but it definitely does not sell Red Vines. Red Vines are way way way better than twizzlers in my opinion but then I figured that twizzlers are an OK substitute since I was desperate. Eh it was a mistake. But back to Wellman’s, in addition to Red Vines they sell a large amount of American products and a few Japanese. They have things like American branded Vinegar, Ziploc bags, blow pops, An assortment of American Soda’s, Snapple etc etc etc. When visiting Taipei for an extended period of time it is a good place to know about even though it is somewhat difficult to access via the subway system.
So after going on this mission to buy twizzlers I get 3 bags of twizzlers. As soon as I ate some of them I remembered why I love Red Vines so much and regretted the purchase. Eh I after all that work I did not even enjoy them in the movie theater. I was too mesmerized by Moon Bloodgood….. oops! I meant Terminator Salvation.
I Will be posting my thoughts on Terminator Salvation at some point in the near future after I absorb its amazingness. it seems that the people who rated it on www.rottentomatoes.com had an awsomeness overload and gave it bad reviews. Jeezus! I hate it when people don’t know how to appreciate a movie.
i appreciated it! and what type of name is moon bloodgood? she was hot though.
Not sure that this is true:), but thanks for a post.
This is 100% true Wellman’s import store has twizzlers. You can verify it at http://www.forumosa.com if you would like. As for the length and difficulty of the walk that is somewhat of an exaggeration. The walk was in my estimation about 1.5 miles but it was not that difficult since there are practically no hills in Taipei