Hot pop

Have you ever tasted hot pop?

I do mean hot, not simply luke-warm. If the parched state of affairs had not yet convinced me of the scorching, arid conditions near Maroua, the fact that the Djino (Cameroonian fruit-flavoured soft drink) between my feet was burning after a few hours travel on the bus, did.

Boiling hot carbonated drinks produce a curiously piquant sensation in the throat.