What $100 buys in... NEVIS

Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, July, 2006 by Gayle Forman

$6 Earrings Ting, a ubiquitous grapefruit-flavored soda, is the West Indian answer to Coca-Cola. Legend has it that the drink got its name when a local, looking at stacked crates of the newly bottled beverage, asked the soda's inventor, "What you gonna call dis ting, mon?" Craft House, Cotton Ginnery Mall, Charlestown.

$6 Honey Nevis began producing sugar commercially in 1640, 12 years after the start of British colonization. During the industry's heyday, there were more than 100 plantations on the island, all of them worked by slaves. Production ended in the 1970s, and plantation houses have since been turned into resorts. So if you want to taste some locally made sweet stuff, it'll have to be honey. Caribco Gifts, Main St., Charlestown, 869/469-1432.

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