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Not all human drinks are sweet and happy and cloying!
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Root beer. Is that the stuff that tastes like sickly sweet mouthwash/cough syrup? You couldnāt pay me to drink enough until I was deluded it was palatable!
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You must be thinking of Irn Bru. Root beer is the stuff that uses sarsaparilla root, thus the name. Not to be confused with Vita Malz or other āmalt beersā, which are basically wort without hops.
EDIT: which would make an interesting topic for itself: which nonalcoholic beverage is an appropriate stand-in for root beer in other languages/cultures? I know in German it would be Malzbier, but what of Italy? Greece? Spain?
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No not irn bru, that doesnāt have the medicinal taste iirc. Just the syrup. I think Irn Bru is meant to be lucozade.
Is mountain dew a kind of root beer?
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No, mountain dew is a somewhat fruity, highly caffeinated, dental-decimating, sugary, nuclear waste spill. Think of it as methamphetamine, in beverage form.
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Nope. Mountain Dew is basically caffeine with a sort of citrus-ey component. Root beer is dark in colour, like a porter, and it is the sarsaparilla that gives it the unique taste.
I did some reading, and originally the root beer was alcoholic. Itās thanks to Prohibition and Hires selling his root tea as āroot beerā that started the modern version. Oh, and the stuff that gave root beer its flavour? It was banned in 1960 in the USA for causing liver damage in rats (and eventually proven only in rats, not in humans or other mammals).
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I donāt drink soda; so they all suck to me. Even as a kid. If itās carbonated - it needs alcohol. Some tonic for my G&Tās are okay.
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Yeah but one of the things. No wait I canāt think of another good thing about 2020 at all. Anyway the one thing I liked about 2020 was I discovered Negronis. Friday evening turn off the computer and pour a Negroni (Iām not a purist I use one part gin, one part red martini, one part martini Blanco served over sliced orange on ice). I know itās meant to be campari but Iām not fond of that cough mixture taste either. Iāll sometimes add some nice bitters. And recently Iāve been using orange gin. The cheap Beefeaters blood orange, not the posh tanqureay Seville (though that sounds lovely) because Iām a cheap date.
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My gins of choice are Bluecoat and Hendricks. I donāt drink a lot - so If Iām going to drink - it best be what I like. Scotch is Balvenie.
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Add this as to why I am cursing this year, my local supermarket stopped stocking Bundaberg ginger beer, though as consolation a local hipster bottler is offering decent ginger beer and tonic water*. I guess itās only a matter of time until my supermarket gets rid of Crodino as well.
*I assume itās good, as I only bought the ginger beer for now. They also sell ginger ale, but the ginger beer is still cloudy and nice and sharp.
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Only available for shipping in Texas, unfortunately. Best ginger beer I have ever had. The extra ginger is amazing.
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Alien āinvasionā from outer-spaceā¦
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I, for one, welcomeā¦pretty much whomever.
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We will welcome them as liberatorsā¦
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Only in the USA. I am in Munich, Germany, living the expat life (and to refer to another thread, once again contemplating if itās really worth staying an Americanā¦ and then getting more active in Democrats Abroad)
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God damn you, 2020.
I have to admit, the whole time I can hear 2021 chuckling in the background, looking at a smug 2020 and saying āhold my beerā.
Too many open bills, the damage to the environment is only now starting to show its consequences. Itās only gonna get rougher from here on out.
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Umā¦
Maybe not just anyoneā¦
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