Here's to you, root beer. Thank you for being so delicious! May I never let another May 16th go by without rejoicing in your awesomeness.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Root beer
I was at a ward activity on Saturday and someone told me that it was the anniversary of the day that root beer was invented. How great is that? I just love root beer and I'm so happy that there is a day to honor it. My roommate and I wen to Target and bought the really good root beer- you know the kind in glass bottles. I told the checker about it and gave him a bottle. Then last night at work, I bought root beer floats for all the nurses.
Here's to you, root beer. Thank you for being so delicious! May I never let another May 16th go by without rejoicing in your awesomeness.
Here's to you, root beer. Thank you for being so delicious! May I never let another May 16th go by without rejoicing in your awesomeness.
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You're so cute. That checker will never forget it. I'm sure he'll think of it everytime someone buys rootbeer.
I too really enjoy root beer (currently my favorite is diet Barq’s. However, Europeans generally can’t stand it. To them (depending on the country) it tastes like dentist's mouthwash or various medicines.
Charles Hires was a Philadelphia pharmacist who according to his biography discovered a recipe for a delicious herbal tea while on his honeymoon. The pharmacist began selling a dry version of the tea mixture and also began working on a liquid version of the same tea. The result of was a combination of over twenty-five herbs, berries and roots that Charles Hires used to flavor a carbonated soda water drink. The Charles Hires' version of the root beer beverage was first introduced to the public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial exhibition, which opened on May 10. The Hires family continued to manufacture root beer and in 1893 first sold and distributed bottled root beer.
Another famous brand of root beer is A & W Root Beer, now the number one selling root beer in the world. A & W Root Beer was founded by Roy Allen, who began marketing root beer in 1919.
(from various internet sources - accuracy not independently confirmed)
Dad, I discovered the same thing about Europeans when I was in Germany. Mom sent me some root beer extract and I was so excited to make it for FHE. The other (American) missionaries all loved it but the Germans thought it was awful. Oh well, I guess that is how I felt about German malt beer.
Root beer floats! Yum! I hope there are a few left for this weekend :D
Hooray for Root beer.
A&W draft root beer out of a keg is still the all-time best root beer ever.
Venezueleans also think Root Beer tastes disgusting/like medicine, and love Malta (while I hold the opposite opinions).
I really like Virgil's root beer from Trader Joe's. Also, Emily collects empty bottles of local root beers (and milk bottles too) from the varied places we've lived, including Millstream root beer from the Amana colonies in Iowa and Fritz's root beer from St. Louis.
In my attempt to outtype Dad, I will make one more comment. Swire's Coca Cola Bottling Company in Salt Lake is the only one that bottles Barq's root beer without caffeine (according to what I've heard and seen on ingredients in various places). I have to agree with Greg, though, I do like A&W root beer better, anyways.
And now we can have draft root beer at the family reunion. See the Bylund Bash site for details.
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