Ice cream first creates too much foam. You have to keep topping it off after you either eat the foam or let it go down on its own. Takes too long to get all of the root beer into the glass. When it comes to a root beer float, I am not a patient man, lol.
@@michaelcummings2590 I just got back from a Bible study where we had root ear floats. I think we all out the ice cream in first. I rather enjoy the foam.
Same here. Glad to see that people from other countries enjoy one of my favorite desserts. My favorite part of a root beer float is the form on top, it’s like root beer flavored whipped cream.
Our kids' medicine is usually flavored with mixed berry, cherry, bubblegum or cherry with a side of goat dung and a kick in the face. So we drink root beer for fun.
As a 38 year old American, I have never met anyone who pours the root beer in first. Everyone I know, and myself, have always put the ice cream in first. I think it also helps reduce the bubbles and you get more ice cream in there. I believe that happened with the boy. He was basically eating air bubbles because he stirred it so much.
I remember they didn't come back to the car to get our tray and my dad drove off with it still attached to the window. That's how we got out root beer mugs.
I’m not sure if anyone said this, but in the US, ginger ale is very popular. The first ginger ale (a dark version) was actually founded in Ireland. However ginger ale (light version founded in Canada) was what you drank when sick, when out to dinner as kids with your parents (if “kiddy cocktails” weren’t available), as well as something mom hid for special occasions. I always found it was a reward (even when sick). Though my mom was also the one who didn’t buy “pop” and got salt-free potato chips. Lame.
@@JR-playlists lol history has actually proved the worst thing you can do is plenty more than sugar in a soda can. There is a reason Coke doesn't use one of their original ingredients anymore.
Growing up in the early 60's Mom and Dad would treat us to floats at the local A&W Root beer stand. The girls would come out on roller skates bringing us our floats on trays that would attach to our car window where Dad would hand them out to us inside the car. Such great memories! Oh, and always put the ice cream in first!
A & W started off with the beverage first, then began selling burgers. Medicine tastes like root beer because in the 1800s, sassafras was used to mask the taste of the medicine. And root beer (both the soft drink and the alcoholic) was made from sassafras roots (now it's artificial).
The herbal flavor of rootbeer gets identified by many outside the country as a medicine or toothpaste flavor because it is similar to the flavorings used there for those things. For the reverse the common mint syrup flavor in Europe for desserts and sodas is the same we use to flavor medicines and dental products in the US. So in the end it's all the same really, what we think of the flavors depends on the random flavoring decisions made by marketers and chemists.
You have to understand. In the USA, at the age of 5 (I am now 60) my Dad would come home after going to the A and W Rootbear Drive In Diner with a GALLON of FRESHLY MADE Root Beer from the actual barrel. It's something I have had my whole life, so for me, and where I came from, it was normal but also a treat to get FRESH made Root Beer from A and W.
When I was growing up, the A & W restaurant used to bring the food out on a tray that rested on the driver side window of our car. They had three different sized drinks and hamburgers. The largest was the Papa bear meal, the medium was the mama bear meal, the smallest was the baby bear meal. The root beer was always served in a glass mug. Barq's root beer is ok, but the root beer to try is Sprecher's root beer. It is made with honey and it is produced in my home state of Wisconsin. Sprecher's makes all of their sodas with honey and they also brew beer, the Special Amber is a popular choice.
This American was today-years-old when he discovered that Dr. Pepper was a prune-flavored drink instead of cherry. (I’ve never tried a prune that I know of.) I don’t have a lot of extra cash right now since I’m still looking for my next job, but if I did I would send you guys Cheerwine. It’s a regional soft drink from The Carolinas that is SPECTACULAR! Thank goodness you guys added the ice cream to the root beer! When you guys were disappointed in the taste of the root beer by itself, I was here yelling at the screen, “ADD VANILLA ICE CREAM! ADD VANILLA ICE CREAM!” 😂 I’m so glad you did and that you enjoyed it!
I don’t think Dr Pepper is. It has 23 different flavors - ok. There is prune listed as one of the flavors but I would never describe it as a prune drink. Amaretto, almond, blackberry, black licorice, carrot, clove, cherry, caramel, Cola, ginger, juniper, lemon, molasses, nutmeg, orange, prune, plum, pepper, root beer, rum, raspberry, tomato, and vanilla
I've watched a fair amount of these 'foreigners react to American stuff' videos, and there is a repeating pattern when it comes to root beer. If it's just one person, or a duo, trying it, they probably won't like it. In a group, however, most won't, but at least one person will be like 'wow! Where has this been all my life?' Never fails. Root beer! If you're not American, there's an approximately 25% chance you might love it!
@Skye Puppy Not true at all my guy, I'm Colombian and a Mormon missionary introduced my family to rootbeer some 20 years ago and I absolutely love it. You can find A&W and IBC rootbeer in many local supermarkets too. It's just everybody has different tastes.
@@skyepuppy7763 hope you enjoy chocolate! You have to have a Mayan connection to enjoy it! Stupid way of thinking my guy, people just dont know about rootbeer as much outside the US but just because it’s a US drink doesn’t make it exclusive to your tastebuds.
@@rickmont1613 That wasn't my point. I called it an American taste, because it's a product that doesn't seem to be readily available outside of America, so people outside the States don't get the opportunity to grow up loving it. You had an American who introduced it to you, and that's wonderful. It's been my experience that, when I offer a variety of flavors to people who grew up outside of America (primarily Mexico, since I live in Southern California), that 99% of them want anything besides the root beer. And Happy World Chocolate Day, a day late!
A&W , the old style, are hard to find. You'd drive under the canopy, park, roll your window halfway down. The waitress would come out and take your order. Then they would put the tray on the rolled-down window. Frosty mug root beer and hot dogs! A summer treat when I was a kid
You are so right! Most A&W restaurants are either drive thrus or you go in. The only one that I know is like the old style is between Racine and Milwaukee.
The Old American, again; Root Beer floats can also be made putting the Ice-cream in first, sometimes the spaces in the ice-cream can give you a little Root Beer crust on the edges of the spaces in the ice-cream.
I had my first A&W served root beer float in a frosted mug that they delivered to us in our cars along with our food. That's how their root beer became so famous here in the U.S., and then they started offering their root beer in our grocery stores. I like to stir the ice cream and root beer until it all freezes and you eat root beer/ice cream crystals. Yummy!!
Me too! We must be about the same age. Going out to dinner was too expensive growing up so my dad took us to A&W drive up. 4 kids, we ordered root beer floats served in glass mugs. No a/c in the cars back then, but it was heaven❤️❤️❤️ what a great memory
I grew up then too! You had to leave your window up a few inches, so they could put the tray on it. So many good memories. The local A&W took that down in the 90's. But I still remember it. And the phones you ordered from in the booth. It isn't the same now, but the food is a still good at my hometown A&W. 😋
Nothing in a can can match the incredibly delicious flavor of an A&W served fresh in an icy-cold mug in the old-fashioned drive-in (not drive through.) They bring it to your parked can on an aluminum tray that hangs from the open car window. Then they come back and take the tray away (and the mugs and paper trash) when you're done with your root beer, burger, and fries. Sometimes you just cannot improve on perfection.
I always has a baby burger, my mom had the mana burger and my dad and brothers had the papa burger and of course fries all around. I remember their fries were wonderful
i thought the bite was just because it has caffeine in it? but yeah, that is one of my favorites for sure. G33K B33R is good too if you love root beer and need more caffeine.
Watching you guys enjoy a root beer float for the first time seriously made my night! I showed it to my two kids and they thought it was just incredible as well! They were on the edge of their seat hoping you all would like it! As if, if you did not like it, it was a personal attack on them! NOW…. If you guys REALLY want to get wild…. A&W Cream Soda floats…. It will change your life. Personal suggestion. With either cream soda or regular A&W root beer, stir it up with a spoon until it turns into a milkshake like consistency. Add more cream soda, rootbeer or ice cream as needed and keep stirring! Something about the texture of the hand spun milkshake and the once cream mixed with cream soda along with the fizz…. Perfection! Enjoy!
Gotta get Vernor's Ginger Ale and ice cream or also know as a Boston cooler. Vernor's alone has a far different taste than most Ginger Ale's and is worth trying on its own if you've never had it. It's a Michigan thing.
mhm, the "up" part of 7-Up was due to Lithium, Coca-Cola had Cocaine and soda like Pepsi got their name from being sold as a digestive aids, (the root word being the same as Peptic or Pepsin, Definition: relating to digestion, especially that in which pepsin is concerned.)
That's how sodas actually started, and were medicines. Coca Cola is called such because it originally contained cocaine within it. Pepsi contained Pepsin.
French wine coca (basically the original coca cola) contained cocaine and alcohol and John Pemberton basically made it to help him with his morphine addiction
Yep and they used ingredients that were made illegal over the years to take with out a prescription such as sassafras root that was used in root beer until the 60s, its now artificial sassafras root oil flavor.
@paul Provenzano But, but, but.... classic A&W hot apple pies are AMAZING! Unfortunately, I think the A&Ws back in Canada are a lot better than the ones here in the US.
@@joshbrown8299 that way promotes TOO MUCH foam. Do like you did, except I would pour half of the soda first, then the ice cream ( use more ice cream), and then pour the remaining soda slowly. Enjoy.
@@katherinemurray8841 My mother used to call vanilla ice cream with Coke or root beer a "brown cow" and vanilla ice cream with ginger ale as a "white cow." But in doing some research, I found those terms aren't universal but more regional, but go back to the 1930's. We used to have them with a straw which made them into three treats. At first you get the ice cream with the spoon and soda with the straw, then you mix them.
I always thought Dr. Pepper was flavored with cherry, but it has 23 flavors in it. The 23 flavors are cola, cherry, licorice, amaretto, almond, vanilla, blackberry, apricot, blackberry, caramel, pepper, anise, sarsaparilla, ginger, molasses, lemon, plum, orange, nutmeg, cardamon, all spice, coriander juniper, birch and prickly ash.
I’m Native American, my tribe is Navajo. I have never ever had root beer float. I went to a youth activity at a church and that’s when I tried root beer float for the very first time. I really like it and all this time I’ve been drinking A&W root beer by it self. My favorite is A&W root beer probably because of the fast food restaurant in town in Idaho. I don’t believed it was sold in grocery stores at the time. My parents would buy it by the gallon at A&W restaurant. It would be gone in no time when they brought it home. This was in the state of Idaho.
A lot of families try to do the "cute and unique family" thing, and that's fine. You guys don't even try and you're just the most amazing little unit. I've just subscribed and can't wait to keep watching what you guys post.
This is like the most wholesome thing I've seen in a long time on RUclips. Hope you guys blow up because you're all awesome and actually contribute to the video.
It depends on how much foam you like. Soda first produces more foam vs ice cream first. They seemed to really like the foam so should continue soda first.
If the ice cream is cold enough, ice crystals form and coat it, and it is crunchy. But, yeah, ice cream first. Then keep your can of root beer close because you will want to drain the mug with a straw, and refill!!!
@@hopefletcher7420 yes we went to A&W for hamburgers and rootbeer floats. One day took my daddy's Lincoln and dropped a rootbeer float down the drivers window.....those trays on the windows didn't help 😉
Love the dad's reaction with the Root Beer float! Haha...:oooh ya, ooh ya, that changes things. That changes things..." Love it. Great videos. Your family is so lovely.
The perfect rootbeer float: small chunks of good vanilla ice cream in a wide cup first, followed by a slow pour of cold rootbeer. It allows the rootbeer to crystalize on more surfaces of the ice cream. Delish!
YES! PUT VERY COLD ICE CREAM IN FIRST, THE ROOT BEER FREEZES TO CRYSTAL LIKE AND CHUNKY Frozen ROOTBEER AND CRUNCHY ICE CREAM...SALT IN THE ROOT BEER MAKES ICE CREAM & THE BEER COLDER! NEXT UP, GREEN RIVERS, BLACK CHERRY, AND NESBITT FLAVORS OF GRAPE AND ORANGE. I USE TO LIKE SUNKIST ORANGE, ESPECIALLY REAL ORANGES, BUT NOW SUNKIST TASTES LIKE BEAR ASPRIN FOR KIDS... CHEW ONE... THEN TASTE SUNKIST... SAME FLAVOR...BUT FANTA ORANGE TASTES LIKE REAL SWEET ORANGE FLAVOR! NESBIT IS 1/2 WAY BETWEEN THOSE TOO IF MEMORY serves me right. FANTA GRAPE IS LITTLE SWEETER BUT NESBIT GRAPE IS A NICE GRAPE FLAVOR, BETTER THAN FANTA'S OR THEIR STRAWBERRY FLAVOR. GRAPE Nehi another great old 1924 drink company. STORE IN SEATTLE Area HAS LOTS OF SODA DRINKS... Found it: ORCA SODA Wholesale, retro sodas, 100 Flavors! The brands of soda pop we all remember. | Producing vintage sodas, made with pure cane sugar. LOCATED IN MUKILTEO, WA 28m NW OF SEATTLE NEAR BOEING PLANT orcabeverage.com/ ALSO....
Float-wise, I would recommend the following (the names are the ones I made up, so there is nothing 'official' here): 1) a "Cream Victoria", being a float made with a quality cream soda and a scoop of good vanilla ice-cream. 2) an "Orange Squared", being an orange soda with a scoop of orange sherbert on top. Both floats are best prepared in large glasses that have been chilled in a kitchen freezer (or picnic cooler) for five-to-ten minutes.
Ice cream first, then pour over the root beer. Sundays were ice cream float nights at my grandparents house when I was growing up. Any soda, any ice cream - everyone came up with their own combinations. Great childhood memory.
The root beer float is the greatest "go back to" treat if you don't have it on the regular. A reminder of how awesome it is each and every time and then wonder why you don't have it more often LOL.
If you ever get the chance, try IBC Root beer in the glass bottles. My absolute favorite root beet ever, other than home made that you would get at Renaissance Fairs and Reenactments and things like that.
I grew up not far from an A&W restaurant that was still brewing their own root beer on site. It's always been something I've loved ever since I was tiny and got baby sized mugs. :) I'm so glad you liked it in floats!
@@jotegg1276 It's hard to point to a main ingredient because it was a blend of bark, spices, and herbs (most root beers are). I can understand why some folks find it medicinal because I THINK one of the things it usually has is licorice root, which is a common medicine ingredient. I was just a kid and it was a proprietary recipe anyway. :) So for me it's "root beer" flavor ;)
Root beer floats are a staple all across the US, no matter what part you’re from. It’s like one of the few things that’s loved across the country. It’s a perfect summer snack
Just came across this video. Great video! I would suggest having water when you try different foods/drinks. The residue of the prior food/drink can effect the flavor of the next item you eat/drink. My recommendation, because it is getting colder here in the U.S., hot Dr. Pepper. Needed: Dr. Pepper and lemons. Put Dr. Pepper in a sauce pan and warm it up. In a mug, put a circular slice of lemon. Pour hot Dr. Pepper in to the mug and enjoy a hot, lemony, Dr. Pepper.
I agree. Using sugar AND the glass bottles. Much better than a can or plastic. RC cola is a sad, sad little drink. People in Idaho drink it like it’s nectar of the gods
I’ve never heard of blueberry or blackberry ginger ale. I’ve tried the cranberry one and it is good. Oh, I have never tried any variety beyond cranberry. I haven’t even seen any of those. I MAY have seen an orange flavor once but didn’t try it. It seems like these companies come out with new flavors for a limited amount of time periodically or something. I never go to search them out so I guess I miss it when the stores carry them for a while.
Ooo I've not had a float in a long time. And I just made chocolate frozen custard, not vanilla. I would try it with Dr. Pepper since that's what I have.
Meanwhile I’m here drinking a monster every morning and like 4 cans of coke a day plus maybe another monster if I need it. I must be immune to the sugar lol.
For that size of mugs, we would put 3 scoops of ice cream. But we would pour a little Root Beer in the bottom of the glass, add 1 or 2 scoops, then add more Root Beer. Also, use a long spoon and straw to eat/drink the float. Now I am craving one. LOL!!! Love seeing how you all aren't afraid to try new things. Stay happy!!
Glad you guys like it. Back in the 1800's the general stores made homemade ice cream and of course they had root beer. So naturally the two were put together and the root beer float was born.
I'm 70 and my grandma always made her own root beer and i just didn't like it but everyone else loved it. I remember it had yeast in it, was very strong and very bubbly
As far as Root Beer goes, you all should try a brand called Barq's, which is pretty popular in the Southern part of the United States. There is a Cherry flavored Dr. Pepper that you all should try too.
The A&W restaurant in my little town was the last one in the US that still made their fresh root beer every day. They didn't use any of the premixed stuff. People would buy it by the gallons to take home. Sadly, they closed down a few years ago. Fresh root beer tastes totally different from what you get in the cans or bottles. Glad you all enjoyed the root beer floats! They're amazing on a hot summer's day.
@@MrGary10k This was in Pueblo, Colorado. Does your A&W still make their rootbeer fresh from individual ingredients or do they now use a premixed version? I remember there were articles in various papers when ours closed down just because of the rootbeer. There's still an A&W restaurant in Colorado Springs, if I remember correctly.
@@Tam_Eiki I'll have to see about that. I haven't bought a jug in a few years. I do know what comes in my orders tastes as smooth as it always has. I have been to CO a few times recently! I did find an A&W in the suburbs around Broomfield recently, but it was a newer combo style store. I haven't gone there yet, but I'll have to look for the place in Colorado Springs you mentioned! Thanks for the heads up!
The original A&W in Lodi California still brews fresh root beer. You can still get growlers to-go there. When I used to live near Sacramento, I would go there quite often.
The Sarsaparilla and Root Beer are both made using Sassafras root. Try Old Dutch Birch Beer. Similar in taste but lighter. Also Dr. Brown’s sodas are high quality soft drinks. One that’s good but hard to find is Cheerwine. No wine but cherry soda.
Watching them try the Root Beer floats made me think back to my youth, and remember one of my favorite floats was called the Dream Float. It was Vanilla Ice Cream and Orange Crush or Fanta Orange soda, it tastes just like the Dreamsicle popsicle. I would hope they try that at some point because it will blow their minds as well as their socks off.
I was sitting through the entire thing waiting to see your attitude once you mixed in the ice cream. (you did not disappoint) Well done and I am happy that you enjoyed it. 😁
Right! I bet if they made a little drink stand for events like festivals and sold just rootbear floats people would go nuts for it and they'd sell out I bet. I couldn't imagine being the ONLY stand to sell that there.
I’m so glad you guys liked the root beer floats! We have whole restaurants based around them in America and it’s kind of a classic here so I loved seeing you guys try them!
I ❤ how you do things as a family. A lost art in America. Takes me back to what family values are all about. Keep up the great work. Every aspect is pure awesomeness. Thanks. A side note, sassafras oil was historically used as a medicinal flavoring in Britain, its colonies, and Europe. Thus, the medicine flavor most non Americans associate with the flavor. Cream soda was originally made at soda fountains using cream, vanilla, sugar, and carbonation.
It's usually apple. Look at any juice cocktails like Peach or Pineapple Mango. Almost every juice except for orange juice and 100% cranberry juice has apple juice in it, but sodas don't have to list that because their formulas are considered proprietary.
I have happy memories of going to A&W as a little kid. At the time (mid70s), it was a drive up restaurant. A server would come to your car, take your order, and then bring your order to your car on a tray designed to hang off your partially opened window. The rootbeer would come in a chilled frosted mug. You could also order a Brown cow, which was a mixture of milk and rootbeer.
Same! Our A & W was just a drive win - not a sit-down restaurant. You are in your car. I always got the foot long hot dog with mustard and pickle relish! Fun times!
We still have a couple of the drive in's running in my area and one hosts an annual cruise night event for classic cars with games like holla hoop contests for the kids. Wish the servers still did the roller skates that would top it off perfectly.
Loved teen burger in a basket with a frosty mug! First place I ever had bacon on a burger. We also had a Dog n Suds for coney dogs. To this day, if I’m traveling and the rest stop has Dig N Suds root beer I have to buy one. I don’t drink soda anymore unless it an occasional root beer or cream soda.
It was the only burger chain in our smallish town when I was a little kid. Somehow, when you're a little kid, eating in the car is exciting. And root beer was their specialty. It was some years later that they started selling it in cans at stores.
It tastes like medicine to them because many of the medicines they grew up with are flavored like root beer. Most of ours in the US get artificial fruit flavors like cherry, or, orange, or grape.
@@JustMe-dc6ks Root Beer includes wintergreen in its flavoring which is chemically related to aspirin so that's likely where the "medicine" taste they're talking about comes from.
Weirdly enough, I was born and raised in Atlanta and root beer tastes like either medicine or tooth paste to me, depending on the brand. The toothpaste I get, with the wintergreen in it, but I have no clue where the medicine association comes in from.
Sarsaparilla is the "Grandfather of Root Beer". It was the Root Beer of the ol' West and you can still get it in some of the ol' Western towns like Virginia City, Nevada. Drink Canada Dry ! ! ! 🤠
We always scooped the ice cream first, then poured the root beer over the top.
Putting the ice cream in last let's you put in more root beer. I keep running out of root beer if I put it in last lol.
Ice cream first creates too much foam. You have to keep topping it off after you either eat the foam or let it go down on its own. Takes too long to get all of the root beer into the glass. When it comes to a root beer float, I am not a patient man, lol.
@@michaelcummings2590 I just got back from a Bible study where we had root ear floats. I think we all out the ice cream in first. I rather enjoy the foam.
I love everything about them, so it’s never bothered me adding more ice cream or more soda as the need presents itself.
you gotta add the ice cream first so the root beer almost crystalizes the ice cream. That the strat
As an American watching this on independence day it warms my heart seeing you enjoy rootbeer floats
Try a Dr Pepper float too😉‼️
Same here. Glad to see that people from other countries enjoy one of my favorite desserts. My favorite part of a root beer float is the form on top, it’s like root beer flavored whipped cream.
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@@1Nida Superior👑
Every Fourth that's what we do. After cook out before firewoks! 🇺🇸
dads reaction to the root beer float was great. everyone else is talking and hes just shoveling it LOL
i was crying lol
I noticed that too. Lol
Lol
The love the innocence of this family.
How can you live in this world and be so untouched by it.
You can add the ice cream to orange soda as well. "Creamsicle" flavor.
Also known as an "orange moose" at some Alaska diners
Grape soda and ice cream is a purple cow
Ohhh yea that’s really good. Forgot about that one
Yeah I think the best floats are root beer, cream soda, orange soda, and grape soda
Personally, I think cream soda goes better with chocolate ice cream than with vanilla ice cream.
Good to see a down to earth family enjoying their time together.
Yes. More wholesome functioning families need to be seen in media. Good show. 👍
It's definitely a facade.
@@drake.707 yes, as soon as the video stops rolling they all start bickering amongst themselves lmao. what a joke post.
Maaaaaannn the Root Beer floats reaction was so wholesome
Our kids' medicine is usually flavored with mixed berry, cherry, bubblegum or cherry with a side of goat dung and a kick in the face. So we drink root beer for fun.
As a 38 year old American, I have never met anyone who pours the root beer in first. Everyone I know, and myself, have always put the ice cream in first. I think it also helps reduce the bubbles and you get more ice cream in there. I believe that happened with the boy. He was basically eating air bubbles because he stirred it so much.
I do !
Ice cream last
Ice cream first because then you get a slight crust on the ice cream.
I remember they didn't come back to the car to get our tray and my dad drove off with it still attached to the window. That's how we got out root beer mugs.
I’m not sure if anyone said this, but in the US, ginger ale is very popular. The first ginger ale (a dark version) was actually founded in Ireland. However ginger ale (light version founded in Canada) was what you drank when sick, when out to dinner as kids with your parents (if “kiddy cocktails” weren’t available), as well as something mom hid for special occasions. I always found it was a reward (even when sick). Though my mom was also the one who didn’t buy “pop” and got salt-free potato chips. Lame.
The dad's reaction after trying the rootbeer float was priceless....he could hardly talk much....funny!!
"How can something we didn't like..." "turn into the best thing ever" haha best part.
@@JR-playlists Back down it's just for fun.
@@JR-playlists lol history has actually proved the worst thing you can do is plenty more than sugar in a soda can. There is a reason Coke doesn't use one of their original ingredients anymore.
@@JR-playlists you must be a blast at parties.
@@bassnazi4713 What are you talking about? Weight loss was easy by the 10th can of coca-cola. How can that be unhealthy?
@@prind142 it used to contain cocaine.
Growing up in the early 60's Mom and Dad would treat us to floats at the local A&W Root beer stand. The girls would come out on roller skates bringing us our floats on trays that would attach to our car window where Dad would hand them out to us inside the car. Such great memories! Oh, and always put the ice cream in first!
I love how dad was so honed in on the float everyone else was just left to fend for themselves. That’s when you know it’s good!
A & W started off with the beverage first, then began selling burgers.
Medicine tastes like root beer because in the 1800s, sassafras was used to mask the taste of the medicine. And root beer (both the soft drink and the alcoholic) was made from sassafras roots (now it's artificial).
The herbal flavor of rootbeer gets identified by many outside the country as a medicine or toothpaste flavor because it is similar to the flavorings used there for those things. For the reverse the common mint syrup flavor in Europe for desserts and sodas is the same we use to flavor medicines and dental products in the US. So in the end it's all the same really, what we think of the flavors depends on the random flavoring decisions made by marketers and chemists.
And Coke started off with Cocaine.😁
@@saiyongdawn7756 Yes, it did.
@@Rebekahdavignon 😂🤧
A&W Canada is a Canadian company separated from the American one they came out with the mascot a&w root bear
My father was addicted to root beer floats and preferred Dad's Old Fashioned root beer.
Its was very smooth and favorful.
I do love dad's rootbeer the best if you can find it. Very smooth
Yes!!! Great memories.
Same...I grew up having root beer floats with Dads rootbeer and its the BEST!
I like floats made with Not Your Father's root beer. (You probably shouldn't let the kids try it, though. It's alcoholic.)
You have to understand. In the USA, at the age of 5 (I am now 60) my Dad would come home after going to the A and W Rootbear Drive In Diner with a GALLON of FRESHLY MADE Root Beer from the actual barrel. It's something I have had my whole life, so for me, and where I came from, it was normal but also a treat to get FRESH made Root Beer from A and W.
its not all the sugar that makes you laugh like that. Its all the love. please keep making these.
When I was growing up, the A & W restaurant used to bring the food out on a tray that rested on the driver side window of our car. They had three different sized drinks and hamburgers. The largest was the Papa bear meal, the medium was the mama bear meal, the smallest was the baby bear meal. The root beer was always served in a glass mug. Barq's root beer is ok, but the root beer to try is Sprecher's root beer. It is made with honey and it is produced in my home state of Wisconsin. Sprecher's makes all of their sodas with honey and they also brew beer, the Special Amber is a popular choice.
I love Sprechers Root Beer!
This family has such a wonderful time together!
They love to laugh together! Such a great family!
They give off such happy positive vibes !!!
This American was today-years-old when he discovered that Dr. Pepper was a prune-flavored drink instead of cherry. (I’ve never tried a prune that I know of.)
I don’t have a lot of extra cash right now since I’m still looking for my next job, but if I did I would send you guys Cheerwine. It’s a regional soft drink from The Carolinas that is SPECTACULAR!
Thank goodness you guys added the ice cream to the root beer! When you guys were disappointed in the taste of the root beer by itself, I was here yelling at the screen, “ADD VANILLA ICE CREAM! ADD VANILLA ICE CREAM!” 😂 I’m so glad you did and that you enjoyed it!
I don’t think Dr Pepper is. It has 23 different flavors - ok. There is prune listed as one of the flavors but I would never describe it as a prune drink.
Amaretto, almond, blackberry, black licorice, carrot, clove, cherry, caramel, Cola, ginger, juniper, lemon, molasses, nutmeg, orange, prune, plum, pepper, root beer, rum, raspberry, tomato, and vanilla
Can't take my eyes off the dog. He is chillin
Now I can't now. He just couldn't be bothered. He knows how to relax.
Hes a good boy.
I've watched a fair amount of these 'foreigners react to American stuff' videos, and there is a repeating pattern when it comes to root beer. If it's just one person, or a duo, trying it, they probably won't like it. In a group, however, most won't, but at least one person will be like 'wow! Where has this been all my life?'
Never fails. Root beer! If you're not American, there's an approximately 25% chance you might love it!
Root beer is a distinctively American taste. I find that people who weren't raised here just don't appreciate the flavor.
@Skye Puppy Not true at all my guy, I'm Colombian and a Mormon missionary introduced my family to rootbeer some 20 years ago and I absolutely love it.
You can find A&W and IBC rootbeer in many local supermarkets too. It's just everybody has different tastes.
@@rickmont1613 Yes, you had that American connection. Glad you love root beer! I was generalizing. :)
@@skyepuppy7763 hope you enjoy chocolate! You have to have a Mayan connection to enjoy it! Stupid way of thinking my guy, people just dont know about rootbeer as much outside the US but just because it’s a US drink doesn’t make it exclusive to your tastebuds.
@@rickmont1613 That wasn't my point. I called it an American taste, because it's a product that doesn't seem to be readily available outside of America, so people outside the States don't get the opportunity to grow up loving it. You had an American who introduced it to you, and that's wonderful. It's been my experience that, when I offer a variety of flavors to people who grew up outside of America (primarily Mexico, since I live in Southern California), that 99% of them want anything besides the root beer.
And Happy World Chocolate Day, a day late!
A&W , the old style, are hard to find. You'd drive under the canopy, park, roll your window halfway down. The waitress would come out and take your order. Then they would put the tray on the rolled-down window. Frosty mug root beer and hot dogs! A summer treat when I was a kid
You are so right! Most A&W restaurants are either drive thrus or you go in. The only one that I know is like the old style is between Racine and Milwaukee.
Hot dogs??!? A&W "Mama burger" everytime!
I miss the old days of A&W!
And the A&W root beer was made on-site at the restaurant. Memories…
@@armntic LOVE me some momma burger :)
The Old American, again; Root Beer floats can also be made putting the Ice-cream in first, sometimes the spaces in the ice-cream can give you a little Root Beer crust on the edges of the spaces in the ice-cream.
That iciness crust is the greatest dessert experience!
“Royal Crown Cola” is fairly regional here in the states and is always referred to as simply “RC”.
I didn't even know it was called Royal Crown Cola I always called RC.
It can be eaten with a Moon Pie.
They only sell it in bars were im from
You are supposed to drink RC cola? I thought you were supposed to tar and feather it before throwing it into the boston harbor.
Me and my RC
Me and my RC
Whats good enough for other folks
Ain't good enough for me.
Me and my RC
I had my first A&W served root beer float in a frosted mug that they delivered to us in our cars along with our food. That's how their root beer became so famous here in the U.S., and then they started offering their root beer in our grocery stores. I like to stir the ice cream and root beer until it all freezes and you eat root beer/ice cream crystals. Yummy!!
Me too! We must be about the same age. Going out to dinner was too expensive growing up so my dad took us to A&W drive up. 4 kids, we ordered root beer floats served in glass mugs. No a/c in the cars back then, but it was heaven❤️❤️❤️ what a great memory
I grew up then too! You had to leave your window up a few inches, so they could put the tray on it. So many good memories. The local A&W took that down in the 90's. But I still remember it. And the phones you ordered from in the booth. It isn't the same now, but the food is a still good at my hometown A&W. 😋
The A & W root beer is better in the A & W restaurants than the A & W root beer in the can.
Nothing in a can can match the incredibly delicious flavor of an A&W served fresh in an icy-cold mug in the old-fashioned drive-in (not drive through.) They bring it to your parked can on an aluminum tray that hangs from the open car window. Then they come back and take the tray away (and the mugs and paper trash) when you're done with your root beer, burger, and fries. Sometimes you just cannot improve on perfection.
I always has a baby burger, my mom had the mana burger and my dad and brothers had the papa burger and of course fries all around. I remember their fries were wonderful
Heads up on the Barq's, Their motto is Barq's has Bite. It's the strongest of rootbeers.
i thought the bite was just because it has caffeine in it? but yeah, that is one of my favorites for sure. G33K B33R is good too if you love root beer and need more caffeine.
it's not 'bite'..it's just nastiness.. never cared for it.
I haven’t had it in a long time but as I recall, regular Barqs has caffeine whereas Diet Barqs does not. Strange…
And 100 grams of sugar per serving 😬
❤ root beer.
I've only seen a few of your videos, but the family togetherness really makes me smile.
I love that dad is staring down into his float like ..."how can I climb in this mug?"
Watching you guys enjoy a root beer float for the first time seriously made my night! I showed it to my two kids and they thought it was just incredible as well! They were on the edge of their seat hoping you all would like it! As if, if you did not like it, it was a personal attack on them!
NOW…. If you guys REALLY want to get wild…. A&W Cream Soda floats…. It will change your life.
Personal suggestion. With either cream soda or regular A&W root beer, stir it up with a spoon until it turns into a milkshake like consistency. Add more cream soda, rootbeer or ice cream as needed and keep stirring! Something about the texture of the hand spun milkshake and the once cream mixed with cream soda along with the fizz…. Perfection! Enjoy!
I can see restaurants all over New Zealand having Root Beer Floats added to their menus
@Mark Williams never tried that before but will keep in mind
My family would go out for root beer floats but I would have a 7Up float...sooo good! The Cream soda floats were grest, too!
Gotta get Vernor's Ginger Ale and ice cream or also know as a Boston cooler. Vernor's alone has a far different taste than most Ginger Ale's and is worth trying on its own if you've never had it. It's a Michigan thing.
Oh gag me with a spoon! Root Beer tastes like fly spray should!
I love rootbeer floats with homemade vanilla ice cream! Try orange soda and vanilla ice cream!
facts and capri sun
Orange soda float = Dreamcicle
I cant understand how you dont have more subscribers. You should have at least 3 mil by now.
It’s funny that they described the Root Beer tasted like medicine, cause that’s what it was initially designed to be.
It taste like toothpaste
@@peaceface8831 What kind of toothpaste have you been using?
@@lrkcm373 mint
@@lrkcm373 root beer taste like mint toothpaste
@@lrkcm373 what kind of medicine have you been using?
Many soda's started off as "medicines" in the US and were sold out of pharmacies.
mhm, the "up" part of 7-Up was due to Lithium, Coca-Cola had Cocaine and soda like Pepsi got their name from being sold as a digestive aids, (the root word being the same as Peptic or Pepsin, Definition: relating to digestion, especially that in which pepsin is concerned.)
@@SentientPickle just to find out it was only due to the carbonation in the drink. The syrup just got people buzzed.
That's how sodas actually started, and were medicines. Coca Cola is called such because it originally contained cocaine within it. Pepsi contained Pepsin.
French wine coca (basically the original coca cola) contained cocaine and alcohol and John Pemberton basically made it to help him with his morphine addiction
Yep and they used ingredients that were made illegal over the years to take with out a prescription such as sassafras root that was used in root beer until the 60s, its now artificial sassafras root oil flavor.
I love the way the dog wasn’t phased by all the noise. Just waiting for some petting.
Cute dog, beautiful wife, awesome kids! Great video guys!
And Great Dad! We can't forget the Dad!
A&W actually started as a Root Beer stand that later started serving fast food
RootBeer was actually a tea at first
I remember going to the A&W as a kid with my dad in Memphis Tennessee. Mid 80's... They would hang the trays on your window.
They also use soft serve which is amazingly good.
@paul Provenzano Yeah that's what I was talking about. Great times.
@paul Provenzano But, but, but.... classic A&W hot apple pies are AMAZING!
Unfortunately, I think the A&Ws back in Canada are a lot better than the ones here in the US.
I need to try these New Zealand medicines that taste like soda!
My Mom and Grandma used to give us Coca Cola syrup for stomach aches. It and Pepsi were both meds back in the day.
Loved seeing you guys enjoying the root beer float. Yeah, they are good.
Put the ice cream first you get a nice foamy head
@@joshbrown8299 that way promotes TOO MUCH foam. Do like you did, except I would pour half of the soda first, then the ice cream ( use more ice cream),
and then pour the remaining soda slowly. Enjoy.
Coke floats are good too
@@katherinemurray8841 My mother used to call vanilla ice cream with Coke or root beer a "brown cow" and vanilla ice cream with ginger ale as a "white cow." But in doing some research, I found those terms aren't universal but more regional, but go back to the 1930's.
We used to have them with a straw which made them into three treats. At first you get the ice cream with the spoon and soda with the straw, then you mix them.
I was surprised LOL. Maybe I should try it too??? Im Iranian Canadian and I HATE ROOT BEER !!!! LOL
I always thought Dr. Pepper was flavored with cherry, but it has 23 flavors in it. The 23 flavors are cola, cherry, licorice, amaretto, almond, vanilla, blackberry, apricot, blackberry, caramel, pepper, anise, sarsaparilla, ginger, molasses, lemon, plum, orange, nutmeg, cardamon, all spice, coriander juniper, birch and prickly ash.
Lord, that sounds like a potion 😂 but that's interesting to know actually
I like the bored dog over to the side. Just sleeping through the whole thing.
Bruh he ain't move I think he dead
I wish my dog was that chill. I think he repositioned himself 8 times while I was watching the video, minimum. 😂🤣
Uh oh. You're done for now....once you have a root beer float, you will always crave it. Congrats you guys, fun video.
I’m Native American, my tribe is Navajo. I have never ever had root beer float. I went to a youth activity at a church and that’s when I tried root beer float for the very first time. I really like it and all this time I’ve been drinking A&W root beer by it self. My favorite is A&W root beer probably because of the fast food restaurant in town in Idaho. I don’t believed it was sold in grocery stores at the time. My parents would buy it by the gallon at A&W restaurant. It would be gone in no time when they brought it home. This was in the state of Idaho.
Interesting?
We had an A&W restaurant here in Maryland too. Loved getting root beer floats there as a kid.
Nice to hear you like it and thumbs up on your awesome Navajo heritage.🥰
A&W or bust.
I don't like A&W root beer from the can. But if my parents bought it from the restaurant yeah it would be gone.
Love your family vibe. Root beer is definitely an acquired taste lol. Root Beer floats are amazing!
Where is your ice!
Other natural flavors normally means sugar.
Not the same without Ice
Barq’s Red Creme Soda with a scoop of Vanilla ice cream is a “Fireman’s Float”. Delicious!
Big Red is so much better than bargs red cream soda
We used to add red hots to ours to add the "fire" to it.
Wow, didn’t know that.
That's a pink cow here (Cincinnati)
In Michigan that would be done with Faygo Redpop.
A&W used to have roadside stands. My father would take me to the A&W stand for Root beer in a frosted glass. I was an amazing treat.
Still have the root beer stand in Dayton ohio 😊
A&W used to sell in stands in their signature heavy glass mug, and you could buy the mug. They also sold the root beer in 5 gallon glass jugs.
A lot of families try to do the "cute and unique family" thing, and that's fine. You guys don't even try and you're just the most amazing little unit. I've just subscribed and can't wait to keep watching what you guys post.
I love how the pops just joking around so much but it’s all family functioning at it’s realest
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this is my first time seeing content from this fam and I had the same thought 💯 genuine
Try the same thing with the cream soda. Cream soda floats are the bomb!! Orange soda and vanilla ice cream are Dreamsicle floats.
We always have a straw with the Root Beer Float. Taste it through a straw.
And, put the ice cream in first.
This is like the most wholesome thing I've seen in a long time on RUclips. Hope you guys blow up because you're all awesome and actually contribute to the video.
Also, as an American, I had no idea it was called "Royal Crown" cola... We just call it "RC" or "Walmart" cola as far as I know lol
We made aw root beer at home when I was 14. That was my first try of root beer floats.
@@kalen1702 same lol
When you make Root beer Floats the ice cream goes in first then the a&w or mugs....
It depends on how much foam you like.
Soda first produces more foam vs ice cream first.
They seemed to really like the foam so should continue soda first.
Add a straw too
thats the way i was taught it also
My whole household was yelling at the screen "NOOOOO! YOU ICE-CREAM FIRST AND THEN THE SODA!" LOL. I'm glad you liked them
If the ice cream is cold enough, ice crystals form and coat it, and it is crunchy. But, yeah, ice cream first. Then keep your can of root beer close because you will want to drain the mug with a straw, and refill!!!
Ice cream goes well with every other sweet thing. It plays nice better than any treat.
Root beer floats for the win! We did this every weekend when we were kids hahaha. So cool you guys liked it.
Coke floats are good too
I hadn’t heard of adding ice cream to Coca Cola. Might have to try that.
We went to the A&W drivein on Fridays for hamburgers and root bear floats. The ice cream goes in first.
@@hopefletcher7420 yes, I always got a Teen burger, and a root beer float ( vanilla ice cream), lol
@@hopefletcher7420 yes we went to A&W for hamburgers and rootbeer floats. One day took my daddy's Lincoln and dropped a rootbeer float down the drivers window.....those trays on the windows didn't help 😉
Mug is quite popular as well. It was a good competitor to choose. A&W, Barq’s, and Mug are by far the biggest brands.
Yet, personal opinion, Dad's is the best one as a drink. A&W does make the best floats.
@@anthonyhansel9175 Agreed Dad's is the best!
Don't forget Dog and Suds! 💜💜💜
@TurtleMom54 Oh wow I forgot about Hires have not had it in decades, can't even remember the last time I saw it in stores in my neck of the woods.
A&W on tap is best and then Dad's
This family makes my heart smile....
For your son~ try the orange soda with vanilla ice cream in frozen mug. It’s like a creamsicle. (Frozen iccecream in orange popsicle)
Dr pepper is 23 flavors in one. Originally used as medicine.
@@armybeef68 Dr Pepper was actually a concaine based cough syrup... back in the 1800's. Original Coca Cola was cocaine based as well.....
And originally from TEXAS!!!
Yep we got it hot when we had a bad cough.
@@armybeef68 you think people are bad when they haven't had their coffee
A base for powdered meds originally.
Love the dad's reaction with the Root Beer float! Haha...:oooh ya, ooh ya, that changes things. That changes things..." Love it. Great videos. Your family is so lovely.
The perfect rootbeer float: small chunks of good vanilla ice cream in a wide cup first, followed by a slow pour of cold rootbeer. It allows the rootbeer to crystalize on more surfaces of the ice cream. Delish!
YES! PUT VERY COLD ICE CREAM IN FIRST, THE ROOT BEER FREEZES TO CRYSTAL LIKE AND CHUNKY Frozen ROOTBEER AND CRUNCHY ICE CREAM...SALT IN THE ROOT BEER MAKES ICE CREAM & THE BEER COLDER! NEXT UP, GREEN RIVERS, BLACK CHERRY, AND NESBITT FLAVORS OF GRAPE AND ORANGE. I USE TO LIKE SUNKIST ORANGE, ESPECIALLY REAL ORANGES, BUT NOW SUNKIST TASTES LIKE BEAR ASPRIN FOR KIDS... CHEW ONE... THEN TASTE SUNKIST... SAME FLAVOR...BUT FANTA ORANGE TASTES LIKE REAL SWEET ORANGE FLAVOR! NESBIT IS 1/2 WAY BETWEEN THOSE TOO IF MEMORY serves me right. FANTA GRAPE IS LITTLE SWEETER BUT NESBIT GRAPE IS A NICE GRAPE FLAVOR, BETTER THAN FANTA'S OR THEIR STRAWBERRY FLAVOR. GRAPE Nehi another great old 1924 drink company. STORE IN SEATTLE Area HAS LOTS OF SODA DRINKS... Found it: ORCA SODA Wholesale, retro sodas, 100 Flavors! The brands of soda pop we all remember. | Producing vintage sodas, made with pure cane sugar. LOCATED IN MUKILTEO, WA 28m NW OF SEATTLE NEAR BOEING PLANT
orcabeverage.com/ ALSO....
Float-wise, I would recommend the following (the names are the ones I made up, so there is nothing 'official' here): 1) a "Cream Victoria", being a float made with a quality cream soda and a scoop of good vanilla ice-cream. 2) an "Orange Squared", being an orange soda with a scoop of orange sherbert on top. Both floats are best prepared in large glasses that have been chilled in a kitchen freezer (or picnic cooler) for five-to-ten minutes.
"Liquid Creamsicle". good orange soda of your choice with vanilla ice cream
Nothing beats an A&W root beer straight from the tap. It’s so damn good.
A&W for fresh, Barq's for at home. This is the way.
@@xiphos8219 this is the way
Yup..much better than bottled
Tom Wahls, Rochester NY Malted Root Beer absolutely demolishes A&W any day of the week
A&W is da best! Mug is not bad...
Ice cream first, then pour over the root beer. Sundays were ice cream float nights at my grandparents house when I was growing up. Any soda, any ice cream - everyone came up with their own combinations. Great childhood memory.
That sounds like a tasty fun old time !!!!
Definitely ice cream first then the root beer or other soda pop
Respectfully disagree. beverage first ice cream second.
Yes always ice cream first. It helps stop all the foam.
@@181charlie if you like a lot of foam then put the soda first but I didn't care for a lot of foam.
The root beer float is the greatest "go back to" treat if you don't have it on the regular. A reminder of how awesome it is each and every time and then wonder why you don't have it more often LOL.
true..I can only do a root beer float occasionally. but it's really good.
If you ever get the chance, try IBC Root beer in the glass bottles. My absolute favorite root beet ever, other than home made that you would get at Renaissance Fairs and Reenactments and things like that.
and their cream soda is THE BEST
@@camillep3631 I've actually never been a big fan of cream soda, but it is the best as far as cream sodas go
I grew up not far from an A&W restaurant that was still brewing their own root beer on site. It's always been something I've loved ever since I was tiny and got baby sized mugs. :) I'm so glad you liked it in floats!
And what was the main ingredient in their root beer for flavor?
The root beer in the A&W restaurants are really good!!
@@jotegg1276 A&W adds Vanilla to there recipe
@@jotegg1276 It's hard to point to a main ingredient because it was a blend of bark, spices, and herbs (most root beers are). I can understand why some folks find it medicinal because I THINK one of the things it usually has is licorice root, which is a common medicine ingredient. I was just a kid and it was a proprietary recipe anyway. :) So for me it's "root beer" flavor ;)
This will probably get buried but we need to get these guys vernors ginger ale.
Absolutely
Vernors is delicious; we drank that when I was in high school in Michigan.
Yes, Vernors!
YES! The best ginger ale ever!!
New Canada Dry Bold. It's the gingeriest.
Root beer floats are a staple all across the US, no matter what part you’re from. It’s like one of the few things that’s loved across the country. It’s a perfect summer snack
Just came across this video. Great video! I would suggest having water when you try different foods/drinks. The residue of the prior food/drink can effect the flavor of the next item you eat/drink.
My recommendation, because it is getting colder here in the U.S., hot Dr. Pepper.
Needed: Dr. Pepper and lemons.
Put Dr. Pepper in a sauce pan and warm it up. In a mug, put a circular slice of lemon. Pour hot Dr. Pepper in to the mug and enjoy a hot, lemony, Dr. Pepper.
Cherry Coke has always been my favorite. “Mexican” Coke is good, since it has cane sugar, instead of the high fructose corn syrup.
Yes, Mexican soda is 😋
I agree. Using sugar AND the glass bottles. Much better than a can or plastic. RC cola is a sad, sad little drink. People in Idaho drink it like it’s nectar of the gods
And MCDonald's Coke.
Canadian soda also uses cane sugar instead of corn syrup, it is a noticeable superior ingredient.
@@russellnobriga4766 you’re so right! The same reason I buy coke from Mexico. Glass bottles and real sugar
I want to try the Canada Dry Blueberry ginger ale!
They have a cranberry ginger ale as well and it is awesome!
I think the one they tried was blackberry ginger ale.
I’ve never heard of blueberry or blackberry ginger ale. I’ve tried the cranberry one and it is good. Oh, I have never tried any variety beyond cranberry. I haven’t even seen any of those. I MAY have seen an orange flavor once but didn’t try it. It seems like these companies come out with new flavors for a limited amount of time periodically or something. I never go to search them out so I guess I miss it when the stores carry them for a while.
The root beer float is like an activity! That was hilarious, the root beer float..An American classic!!
For a summer light refreshing treat, try an orange sherbert and Squrit or 7up float.
We put ice cream in first, then root beer for the foam!
Ooo I've not had a float in a long time. And I just made chocolate frozen custard, not vanilla. I would try it with Dr. Pepper since that's what I have.
French Vanilla, or homestyle ice cream is really good to use.
I laughed so hard. Towards the end of the video, the sugar was definitely setting in. I just love y’all! 😂🤣😂👍🏼
Meanwhile I’m here drinking a monster every morning and like 4 cans of coke a day plus maybe another monster if I need it. I must be immune to the sugar lol.
I just love that the root beer floats just made them forget about the video for a minute.
@@marvinhill4565 so true. This family is great. So fun to watch their hilarity. It makes my day! 😁
For that size of mugs, we would put 3 scoops of ice cream. But we would pour a little Root Beer in the bottom of the glass, add 1 or 2 scoops, then add more Root Beer. Also, use a long spoon and straw to eat/drink the float. Now I am craving one. LOL!!! Love seeing how you all aren't afraid to try new things. Stay happy!!
Sam was on that Root Beer Float like a Honey Badger! He was absolutely speechless!
Glad you guys like it. Back in the 1800's the general stores made homemade ice cream and of course they had root beer. So naturally the two were put together and the root beer float was born.
I love this family. They have so much fun doing these videos.
You guys are a delight to watch. Great family! Best from South Florida.
I'm 70 and my grandma always made her own root beer and i just didn't like it but everyone else loved it. I remember it had yeast in it, was very strong and very bubbly
It sounds like her recipe sprang from the old days when root beer was considered medicinal. Don't think I would have liked it either.
As far as Root Beer goes, you all should try a brand called Barq's, which is pretty popular in the Southern part of the United States. There is a Cherry flavored Dr. Pepper that you all should try too.
Cherry Dr Pepper gives me life!
Barqs root beer has added caffeine, which, in my opinion, ruins the flavor. Makes it harsh.
A&W is much better than Barq's.
@@suesaffel1411 But everything is better than Mug
Barq's Root Beer and A&W Root Beer taste better than Mug Root Beer. Root Beer taste even better as a root beer float.
I kind of want them to try a "purple cow" (grape soda + vanilla icecream), it's soo good
Or a "creamsicle" (orange soda + vanilla ice cream) ❤
Purple Cow is da shiznit!!
@@hislovenotwithstanding7727 Yessss that too 😍
Yesss, we called them purple cows too. Grapico + ice cream. Love them
Thats my first time hearing it called it that
The A&W restaurant in my little town was the last one in the US that still made their fresh root beer every day. They didn't use any of the premixed stuff. People would buy it by the gallons to take home. Sadly, they closed down a few years ago. Fresh root beer tastes totally different from what you get in the cans or bottles. Glad you all enjoyed the root beer floats! They're amazing on a hot summer's day.
Where are you from? Just curious, as I have a local A&W that used to do the same. It is still here, however. One of the originals.
That fresh made root beer was completely different. I loved it.
@@MrGary10k This was in Pueblo, Colorado. Does your A&W still make their rootbeer fresh from individual ingredients or do they now use a premixed version? I remember there were articles in various papers when ours closed down just because of the rootbeer. There's still an A&W restaurant in Colorado Springs, if I remember correctly.
@@Tam_Eiki I'll have to see about that. I haven't bought a jug in a few years. I do know what comes in my orders tastes as smooth as it always has. I have been to CO a few times recently! I did find an A&W in the suburbs around Broomfield recently, but it was a newer combo style store. I haven't gone there yet, but I'll have to look for the place in Colorado Springs you mentioned! Thanks for the heads up!
The original A&W in Lodi California still brews fresh root beer. You can still get growlers to-go there. When I used to live near Sacramento, I would go there quite often.
The Sarsaparilla and Root Beer are both made using Sassafras root. Try Old Dutch Birch Beer. Similar in taste but lighter. Also Dr. Brown’s sodas are high quality soft drinks. One that’s good but hard to find is Cheerwine. No wine but cherry soda.
Watching them try the Root Beer floats made me think back to my youth, and remember one of my favorite floats was called the Dream Float. It was Vanilla Ice Cream and Orange Crush or Fanta Orange soda, it tastes just like the Dreamsicle popsicle. I would hope they try that at some point because it will blow their minds as well as their socks off.
I remember floats made with Seven-up. Very good.
I’m not sure why, but my great grandmother called orange soda floats “goose eggs”.
Watching this family be happy and smile makes me smile like no other
At Christmas time cranberry ginger ale is really good
Christmas time is the only time I ever see Canada Dry Cranberry or Blackberry.
It is one of my favorite sodas
Really good when you add vodka or gin!!
I often buy the cranberry ginger ale when I see it. It seems to be year round at our supermarkets in San Antonio
😋😋😋
I was sitting through the entire thing waiting to see your attitude once you mixed in the ice cream. (you did not disappoint) Well done and I am happy that you enjoyed it. 😁
You now have a mission: to make root beer floats a "thing" in New Zealand! 😉
Right! I bet if they made a little drink stand for events like festivals and sold just rootbear floats people would go nuts for it and they'd sell out I bet. I couldn't imagine being the ONLY stand to sell that there.
Yes, but teach them to pour over not drop in.
@@Dilirium23 Yeah I was like huh? I always add the ice cream first then pour the soda over it :)
In the southern states here in the U.S., we call RC Cola and Moon Pies Champagne and Caviar. LOL
And a Peach Nehi makes it a Southern feast.
Peanuts and Coke make a cocktail too
Came to mention RC and Moon Pies as well.
I thought that was just a line in a song! It’s true? That’s great! Hahaha
I hadn't heard the "champagne and caviar" comparison, but RC and moon pies really are popular in the southeastern US.
I’m so glad you guys liked the root beer floats! We have whole restaurants based around them in America and it’s kind of a classic here so I loved seeing you guys try them!
I ❤ how you do things as a family. A lost art in America. Takes me back to what family values are all about. Keep up the great work. Every aspect is pure awesomeness. Thanks. A side note, sassafras oil was historically used as a medicinal flavoring in Britain, its colonies, and Europe. Thus, the medicine flavor most non Americans associate with the flavor. Cream soda was originally made at soda fountains using cream, vanilla, sugar, and carbonation.
American here. So sorry to hear about you and your family. 😢
Your reaction to the float is priceless. It can be addictive.
We love our "other natural flavors" over here in America.
Candycap: allow me to introduce myself.
Corn syrup? 😋
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It's usually apple. Look at any juice cocktails like Peach or Pineapple Mango. Almost every juice except for orange juice and 100% cranberry juice has apple juice in it, but sodas don't have to list that because their formulas are considered proprietary.
I have happy memories of going to A&W as a little kid. At the time (mid70s), it was a drive up restaurant. A server would come to your car, take your order, and then bring your order to your car on a tray designed to hang off your partially opened window. The rootbeer would come in a chilled frosted mug. You could also order a Brown cow, which was a mixture of milk and rootbeer.
Same! Our A & W was just a drive win - not a sit-down restaurant. You are in your car. I always got the foot long hot dog with mustard and pickle relish! Fun times!
We still have A & W restaurants in Wisconsin.
We still have a couple of the drive in's running in my area and one hosts an annual cruise night event for classic cars with games like holla hoop contests for the kids. Wish the servers still did the roller skates that would top it off perfectly.
Loved teen burger in a basket with a frosty mug! First place I ever had bacon on a burger. We also had a Dog n Suds for coney dogs. To this day, if I’m traveling and the rest stop has Dig N Suds root beer I have to buy one. I don’t drink soda anymore unless it an occasional root beer or cream soda.
It was the only burger chain in our smallish town when I was a little kid. Somehow, when you're a little kid, eating in the car is exciting. And root beer was their specialty. It was some years later that they started selling it in cans at stores.
So good to see you all have fun. We love these drinks ,desert so much too.
I remember going to A&W with my parents when I was a kid to get root beer floats. Good stuff.
In that frozen glass mug, mmm. Not sure about yours but I remember when they brought it to your vehicle...such great memories.
Right, the drive inn with outdoor seating. Nothing like going there on a hot summer night and having and A&W root beer float.
Memories
Mug is pretty big here as well. Its so weird hearing root beer tastes like medicine...we dont generally have sweet meds.
It tastes like medicine to them because many of the medicines they grew up with are flavored like root beer. Most of ours in the US get artificial fruit flavors like cherry, or, orange, or grape.
@@JustMe-dc6ks Root Beer includes wintergreen in its flavoring which is chemically related to aspirin so that's likely where the "medicine" taste they're talking about comes from.
Weirdly enough, I was born and raised in Atlanta and root beer tastes like either medicine or tooth paste to me, depending on the brand. The toothpaste I get, with the wintergreen in it, but I have no clue where the medicine association comes in from.
It is really similar to pepto bismol to me
They are all cherry or something along those lines.. and never done well.
"That was life changing!" Epic! If only root beer floats could solve the world's problems!
Haha have we ever tried? Sounds like you’ve hit on something
@@balkopublicschoolsmusiccha5404 Thanks! What do we need to do to get this trend going?
Sarsaparilla is the "Grandfather of Root Beer". It was the Root Beer of the ol' West and you can still get it in some of the ol' Western towns like Virginia City, Nevada.
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