upgrading facilities pet peeve

[Baron Munchausen]

I think the distinctive flavor ingredient in the 'original' root beer was Sarsaparilla root. It's true that now 'root beer' can taste like all sorts of things. If you bought one of every brand of 'root beer' on sale in the United States today and tasted them all you'd never be able to figure out what they are supposed to have in common.

[Cheeze]

Mug and A&W brands of root beer is good enough, but nothing equals Barq's...particularly for root beer floats with Breyer's vanilla ice cream. Yummy!!! (At least that's for wider distributed root beer...there are some smaller brands)

I always thought birch and root beer were similar flavors. Birch beer comes from the birch tree (gee, that figures). I used to love breaking off a green twig when hiking and leaving it in my mouth to taste it. I think root beer is that flavor plus some others.

Oh, and then there's ginger beer. I get that whenever I can, and I've been lucky to find places that sell it here in the States!!

[Spoo]

Oh, and then there's ginger beer.

How is it different from ginger ale?

[Slynky]

Speaking of drinks not available in other countries, I miss (I don't know how to spell it, so here is the phonetic pronumciation) "shpayt-see", a German drink that is similar to mixing Coke-a-Cola and Orange (but much better).