i am from the netherlands and over here there regularly is no root beer, but some ingredients they put in root beer are a primal taste ingredient in medicine and toothpaste in europe
They should have tried Hank's root beer. That is a very smooth, buttery root beer and my Danish fiance thought it tasted like heaven. I could hardly pry him away from the bottles.
I like Barq''s but today I had a canned A&W root beer and it tasted of toilet paper and sweetener. The stuff they serve you in-restaurant is good but the cans are kind of gross.
I'm Irish and I love all three of those things, rootbeer a bit less because it has that medicine taste but it also kind of tastes like dr pepper to me which is great, not all of us think the same as facts
Very true. There are a lot of soft drinks that taste like complete crap unless they are cold. Even your standard Coke tastes 100 times better when its nice and cold. In fact maybe the real problem is they aren't pouring these over ice.
Big difference in flavor between warm, room temp and cold rootbeer for sure. I know that as we use mostly mint flavors in our toothpaste in Europe their toothpastes taste similar to RootBeer. That could be part of it too.
@@zen528 you need to learn to read entire statements before you respond to them. Im just going to assume that you didnt read the whole paragraph and your brighter than you sound.
TLDR: once you have enough of root beer you'll start to love it. Long version: As an Iranian, my aunt who lived in the US would come to Iran every 3-4 years to see my grandmother, my family and relatives. One of the things she brought for the kids (myself being one) as souvenirs were Dum Dums (American lollipops). For us Iranians it was exciting to discover new flavours in the candies we had experienced locally like blueberry, butterscotch etc. but one that really stood out was root beer. Literally my entire family hated those, so nobody ate them. But you know, you go through the entire box and in the end you'll have to eat the ones you don't like too. But nobody even touched the root beer flavoured ones, so I started eating those and slowly but surely I developed a taste for them to that point that they became my favourite flavour by the end of the box! Decades later, my grandmother, aunts and many relatives had passed away, I was travelling to Canada to go to a wedding and happened to stop at a Wendy's to get a burger and there it was, an actual root beer drink for the first time in my life! I ordered one and drank it (the flavour was very close to Dum Dums!) and man, it was nostalgia in my mouth. I had a few tears thinking about my grandma and auntie, but thanks to Root Beer, I'll remember them every time I pop one open.
I love root beer, and always have, but I did grow up drinking the stuff so I have a lot of wonderful memories connected to the taste of root beer, too. Have you ever tried cream soda? It is a vanilla soda, too, though a different vanilla, so you might like it, too. It isn't as dark tasting, but does have its own unique profile, like root beer does. I feel as nostalgic with that soda as I do root beer. I think Dum Dums makes that flavor, too, if I am remembering correctly. Both flavors always take me back to my childhood when my family lived in Florida. My aunt had a beautiful pool in her back yard and it was fully screened in, even overhead, and the yard was completely enclosed with thick privacy hedges and beautiful landscaping, so it felt like we were the only people in the world. The patio surrounding the pool had the most comfortable lounge furniture and grill area, and tropical plants and flowers everywhere, that made it feel more like a fantasy scene out of an old movie, than it did someone's back yard. My uncle was a hard worker, and was both a mail carrier and a police officer, but was a big kid at heart, so was a lot of fun, when he would have barbeques and play with us kids. When we moved out of state, we continued to go back down to Florida for vacations, and we would always take a big variety of canned sodas, root beer and cream soda always being included, and we would stay with my aunt and uncle. Now I cannot taste either of them without my mind going right back to their back yard barbeques in their heavenly back yard. My uncle has long since passed, and my aunt is now elderly, living with her daughter and her husband in Louisiana, and I never have the opportunity to travel anymore, so those memories are even more precious than ever to me, and I am so thankful that I have them! I rarely drink soda of any kind anymore, but I do, on rare occasions, drink one, and relive as many memories as I can, while I savor the flavor.
Wait a minute, reading these comments, I have to ask.... did you guys REALLY give them lukewarm root beer?? No wonder they hated it! All sodas are supposed to be cold, *especially* root beer.
In America, we don't usually add 'root beer flavor' to toothpaste and muscle creams and stuff, but in most other nations, that's their first/only exposure to the taste and scent of what we call root beer. So they only associate it with medicine, and we practically never do.
It's a tragedy that so many people don't like root beer because they associate it with medicine. There's nothing like a super cold root beer -- the combination of sweet vanilla with that herbal bite is so refreshing! Barq's is my favorite!! If you get used to the taste you can definitely tell the difference between them.
Seems a strange trend with the Irish, many dislike peanut butter, rootbeer, chocolate... ? I personally am not a root beer fan, I can drink it but it isn't something I would buy ever. I like many other sodas before root beer.
Both Peanut Butter and Root Beer are awesome. Occasionally, I like Mug root beer or Barq's root beer or grape soda (Welches or Crush) with pizza (thin crust, extra cheese, pepperoni, Italian sausage, green peppers and the purple onions).😋 • Mug Root Beer • Smuckers All Natural Peanut Butter, Chunky. 👍👍
Those people aren't drinking A&W root beer correctly... It is to be drank from a frosted mug and the can is to be ice cold before pouring. I don't know why... but drinking A&W from a frosted mug just makes it taste better.
Skythos A&W and the more difficult to find Dog ‘n’ Suds, which used to have quite a lot of drive-ins. The root beer at the latter is not quite as carbonated out of the tap- old-school taps, not modern machine taps.
AndyK304 I know... I used to live near one before the property was sold and the location became a McDonalds. A&W Root Beer tastes better, to me at least, than the brands available around here. Barqs has too much bite for my liking, and while I do like this other brand (which the brand name escapes me at the moment) that primarily comes in bottles... it is not carried by any stores close to my house.
Skythos I agree with you on Barqs for the most part, but I recall my first Barqs, the very cold can on a hot day. We have two Dog ‘n’ Suds in West Michigan, one in Muskegon and one in Montague. The only thing wrong is that they use those food service onion rings, while back in the ‘70s they dipped big, thin sliced in batter,
James McInnis Far as I'm aware 'To be drank' is the correct wording... and my Grammerly app agrees. But then again, grammar isn't my forte so... In any case... I stand by opinion of A&W Root Beer! :P
Warm, cold, they all taste like a victorian cure for tuberculosis. The reason you Yanks like it, is because you are descended from the insane of Europe.
I'm Italian and it's my favorite drink. Unfortunately you can't find it here in Italy... I tried it for the first time in Illinois on Route 66 years and years ago and from that moment I fell madly in love with Root Beer. It has a unique, ancient and very refined flavour. It was literally instant love! LONG LIVE ROOT BEER! ❤️
When I was stationed in Germany I took perverse pleasure in handing a root beer to a German and watching the ensuing hilarity. They hate it as much as I love it.
I was surprised to learn they didnt have the best soda anywhere in europe. Ive never been more nationalistic and patriotic for america than that moment.
@@devina8812 The chemical used in rootbeer that gives its smell and taste is only used in europe for things like medicine and mouthwash. We just cannot get used to the taste and 99 out of 100 europeans will gag when tasting it for the first time.
Agreed. Maybe they should take the same group of people and make them have root beer floats to see their new reaction. That would be really funny, especially the part where they watch someone put ice cream in the stuff and hand it to them. The looks on their faces would be priceless.
"This is vile! "It's so bubbly, cloying and happy. But you know what's truly frightening? If you drink enough of it you start to like it." "It's insidious!" "Just like the Federation" Quark and Garak ST:DS9
The cause is methyl salicylate (a less toxic substitute for the chemical 'sassafras albidum' originally used to flavor root beer and sarsaparilla)... many countries use the chemical to flavor medicines, and a subconscious association is made between the chemical and a material that is purely medicinal. A few countries (i.e. United States) do NOT use methyl salicylate to flavor medicine, and the association is never made for their population, allowing their minds to connect the taste with other culinary bitters (such as arugula, coffee and saffron).
I was just about to say that I think you need to have grown up with it... Never mind a root beer float; what a perfect way to ruin a perfectly nice scoop of vanilla ice cream. Blech.
I'm not surprised because I've seen a number of vids and 99% of Europeans don't like root beer. I find it bizarre. Apparently it's like Vegemite with the Australians.. No one likes it but them.
Well, I'm from Germany. I tried root beer and I loathe it. Seriously, it's one of the worst tastes I ever experienced. I still can't get over it. I still remember that horrible day eight years ago... when Americans talked about it, it sounded so nice! I was expecting so much! And it was just the wooooooorst taste ever. :(
I know the feeling. I remember when I've watched a couple of videos of Americans trying foreign candy and snacks, like the ones enjoyed by South Slavic nations. You see, over here in countries that were once a part of Yugoslavia, a peanut butter snack called "smoki" or "smokići" is as popular as chips. I must say that all of us found it bizarre and even shocking when Americans universally decided that they hate smoki. "How can you not like them!?!?!?! BLASPHEMY!!!!"
I have the feeling they're consuming these root beers at room temperature, which is how most beer is consumed by people from Ireland. The thing is, you DON'T DRINK ROOT BEER AT ROOM TEMPERATURE. It must be consumed COLD. And why did no one make these poor souls a root beer float?
Drapes Drapper come on man,everyone knows any town/city you go to has their own brewery and the fuckin lager is never cold, its straight up piss,warm piss,thank christ for Heineken!
I've worked in many bars and people always ask for the extra cold tap. Unless its ale where it comes as cold as it comes lol. But when it comes to lager never have i ever heard anybody mention the lunacy of drinking room temperature lager. If these people exist you should do gods work and refuse to acknowledge their existence. Heineken extra cold with the frosted glass is too satisfying.
actually in all honesty most of them are, but I got a 2 litre of A&W the other day from the store and was too damn thirsty to wait so I drank it warm...….. and it was actually kind of awesome. tried some others and they suck warm, but A&W almost tasted like chocolate or something when its warm, surprisingly. if you've ever been to an A&W restaurant and tried it straight from the keg where its incredibly frothy and fresh? i'd compare the way it tasted warm, to that taste. it was odd, but awesome.
Yeah, that one when they scrambled up people who drank coffe for the first time... Please, that was just bogus. BUT, root beer? I have never seen anywhere but in the US. And don't even think of introducing it in Europe (I'm sure they tried, unsuccessfully); this kind of tasty-but-foul thing is sth you have had to grow up with to enjoy. Every country has'em.
grytlappar I don't think finding people who haven't had coffee before is that unrealistic. I am in my twenties and besides a sip or 2 when I was like 8 I have never had coffee and I certainly have never had a latte or anything like that.
There's a saying: "To like peanut butter, you have to be born in America. To like root beer, your grandparents have to have been born in America." Sarsaparilla, anyone? ;-)
My GOD, why are they drinking it warm??? Who drinks soda pop warm??? You know for the most part they should change these videos to: What Irish People HATE about American Foods Today!
KBeez very funny..., but, actually, compared to other Europeans (yes, ya ARE), the Irish are some of the least guilty of this practice. The people in these videos just happen to be assholes... or is it arseholes? And for the record, most Americans I know do NOT like root beer.
So fun fact. Barq's Root Beer was developed and manufactured about 30 miles from where I live in Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi. When The Coca-Cola Company bought them out and moved production to Atlanta, Georgia, they had a hard time getting the flavor just right. They sent a team of scientific investigators to the old Mississippi plant and what they found is that the original Barq's was using polluted water out of the Biloxi river. People around me to this day still remember and prefer the original flavor to the new one.
@@Mugelbbub16 True, except marmite is fermented bullshit harvested from a dead bovine's asshole-- and Root Beer is the elixir of the gods. It is summer in a frosted mug. It's jizz on tits.
That was my first thought. Was it cold? I can maybe understand that they didn't really like it if it was room temperature. Most sodas don't taste nearly as good at room temperature.
Yeah I was confused because it seemed like he thought each one was supposed to be a completely different flavor. I'm sure an American would be able to pick up the subtle differences in each, but still it's all the same drink, there's not going to be radical differences.
Not all root beer tastes the same. Not even close. SO many different varieties. And pretty much all the ones they chose to sample were shitty. Virgil's was the best of the bunch, by far, but all the others in this video were uniformly craptastic.
If you try different colas you can tell the difference though. Never mind actual beer... LOL +Tacobell: Surely they have different recipes; a water bottle comparison? Gtfo.
I'm Texan and I've never been a fan of root beer by any means, but I do agree that IBC is pretty good. But even though I don't necessarily like root beer all that much, it's definitely not as bad as they all make it out to be in this video. Their reactions are way over the top and unnecessary. There's a reason root beer is as popular as it is, and that's because tons of people like it. I don't know, maybe I'm just annoyed by their ridiculous over the top reactions in the video.
I don’t drink soda but the only one I make an exception for is root beer. When you go to places that have it, you need to get an ice cold glass bottle of root beer. No ice, just straight from the bottle. It’s heaven.
So glad someone else thought if IBC! Their root beer is good, but their cream soda is divine nectar! lol Jones is a better mixer, but IBC straight is SOOOOOO good! :D
NoJusticeNoPeace Outside Ireland Guinness does taste like ditch water, but in Ireland it is fantastic. No bitterness, it's smooth and carmel like in flavor, the formula changes when it has to endure shipping, more's the pity.
aj gensel- As far as I know most Guinness sold outside Ireland and the UK isn't made in Ireland, they licence the recipe to a local brewer. For example here in Canada Guinness is made by Labatts.
I'm from korea, and I lived in America for three years when I was 11. I still remember when I had my first root beer at my friends birthday party. It was nothing like I've ever tasted before and made me gag. It was disgusting, and they had root beer candy too lol. I was shocked that anybody liked it. But as the years went buy. I started to like that strange drink. It's like, strange addictive taste that makes you wanna drink again and again although you hate it. Kinda like smelling your own fart. Anyway, root beer is a one of a kind drink, and it has it's charm.
I used to hate beer and its taste with all my passion when I was a kid,now I drink like 2 beer bottles a day,especially the black beer which contains 6-7% alcohol it tastes better
Because if your drink needs to be mostly ice cream to be nice, maybe it's not actually very good at all, and you don't want your ice cream ruined by a mediocre-at-best soft drink.
@ Paul Dennett A root beer float has a small scoop of vanilla ice cream in it. It's not a sundae with root beer poured over the top like caramel or hot fudge.
didn't realize rootbeer was such a acquired taste. toothpaste/ what the fuck? wats going on with your tastebuds irish folk ......coming from a irish guy who lives in canada
I certainly think it is an acquired taste. I believe root beer sucks, and cannot understand why anyone likes it. Perhaps I wasn't introduced to it early enough and gotten used to its flavor. The reason for that is likely when my parents first tasted root beer, they thought it sucked.
yes true! i just thought they were over exaggerating with the toothpaste part....I was never really raised on it myself, always tasted something like a coke and a dr pepper mixed for me. hardly toothpaste. lol
It tastes like that really mild mouthwash that they give you at the dentist/orthodontist after you get a filling, a flavour we're trailed from a very young age to not swallow
@@sub7se7en it could be a genetic thing. I know some people dont like the taste of broccoli because they were born with a gene that allows them to taste a certain chemical that makes the vegetable bitter.
I stopped drinking soda when I was a teen, but A&W root beer makes me nostalgic. I especially love those *A&W root beer candies* shaped like barrels!! 🍺
I am American.. And I can not Stand Root Beer...to me it's just to Sweet. Go Ireland..and Ban it from your Shores and if other Nations Like it ..i say put a stop to Trade with that Nation. Man how I Hate fucking Root Beer and Lawn Nomes..but that's just a Whole other Story.
The sweetness is the problem and not that it tastes like floor cleaner(Son, how do you know what floor cleaner tastes like? Listerine I think was developed as a general purpose disinfectant.)
Quark:"I want you to try something for me..take a sip of this" ( Garak:"What is it?") Quark:"A human drink..USA..it's called rootbeer"( Garak:"Ah I don't know") Quark:"Come on aren't you just a little bit curious? (Garak takes a sip.."it's vile!") Quark:"I know,its so bubbly,cloy,and happy..but you know what is really frightening..if you drink enough of it you begin to like it." Garak:". It's ... insidious .."
Henry Hancock ... What is funny is many of those Root Beer they tasted have very different tastes already and they could not taste the difference at all.
His pallet is not sophisticated. There is no other explanation. The other's could at least tell the difference, which there is . He would likely eat shit if they said it was chocolate pudding.
I use to like root beer but idk what happened maybe because there's more artificial stuff in it, that I don't like it anymore.... although when someone opens an IBC root beer it still smells good but I'm not risking it
JRSiebz Brown cow is used for a few different combos. I’ve read people using it for a root beer float that uses chocolate ice cream, and as a Coke or Dr. Pepper float using vanilla ice cream.
Lol, when the guy said that rootbeer was vile, it reminded me of a Deep Space 9 episode.Quark gets Garak to try rootbeer, and garak said "Its Vile!", and quark says "the sad thing is, the more you drink it, the more you start to like it. Just like the Federation"
Don't forget Big Red floats and grape pop floats. Honestly you can make floats with just about any pop/soda (where I'm from we say pop). Also, why not just use hard soda in a float for the "adult version".
You have the rootbeer float, the brown cow (Coke, Pepsi, Royal Crown), the white lamb (7UP, Sprite). I don't know if any others have actual names to them...
Root Beer is a special case and most people taste test it wrong. 3 Rules 1. Temperature COLD - think beer, the cooler the better but not frozen 2. A Frozen Mug 3. NO ICE Warm Root Beer is disgusting, if you're going to try it, do it right.
Only bad American watered down beers need to be as cold as possible. Good quality beers need to be cold but not as cold as Budweiser, Coors etc. need to be.
+Night of Emerald Dream, shocking how many people don't get what your saying, and think your talking about it like beer. People this is how you drink it.
The flavoring used in root beer is pretty similar to the flavoring used in a lot of European cough syrups. So suspect for them, this is what it's like for a lot of Americans that dislike "cherry" flavored stuff. The flavor is just too strongly associated with medicine.
Omg...I still hate that cherry flavoring crap that all the children's cold medicines seemed to use! So now it makes more sense why they'd all think root beer tastes like medicine. Thank you for the insight!
If Europe medicine taste like root beer, I'll be excited to take that medicine. When I was a kid, I had to take a type of cough syrup that had no specific artificial flavor and tasted like pure chemicals.
Evi1M4chine Woah, cool it there. I am just going off from the first guy who replied who said that flavoring that are used in root beer are similar to that to European cough syrups. No need to get triggered.
Kyle Furtwangler I'm not a drinker, but I had to try that this time I've come back home to Texas. It was fairly decent! They don't have it in Australia, though.
One of my favorite star trek scenes is quarks bar. Quark hands Garak a glass and pours a dark liquid into it and asks him to sample it. He does and recoils at it's flavor! " It's vile!" He scowls at quark. Quark says "I know, it's so cloying and bubbly and happy. " Garak immediately catching his drift. Garak wryly smirks "It's insidious." Quark looking mournful, says " you wanna know the frightening part?" If you drink enough of it, you'll tend to like it!" Just like the Americans!
A 'go to' thing to do when reacting to something new? not really. On this case. i have tasted atleast the A&W root beer and it does taste like some medicines and toothpastes.
I honestly don't think she was trying to troll you. It seems to me she was just sharing her opinion about what you said. You both have different opinions based on what you've experienced and that's the kind of diversity that makes comment threads interesting to read. Also sometimes comments seem childish because they are written by children and from the looks of it that's what she is. (Sorry if that's not the case Haley) Anyways, no disrespect intended I just wanted to add my two cents on the matter.
I'm 24 now and that photo is god knows how old so i guess you'd be correct looking at my picture Jo lol and no David i wasn't trolling, but i did find your first comment offensive to be honest and if you honestly believe i was trying you troll you then i'm not going to be upset at the second comment despite being offensive. All in my opinion of course so i do not know if you were trying to be offensive but i was really just pointing out that its not something we brits do despite you thinking so and on this case atleast that brand of root beer does taste like some toothpastes and cough medicine. Sorry for the confusion and perhaps upsetting you
FYI americans use different ingredients in our tooth pastes/ mouth washes from most European countries, so NONE of our medicinal stuff tastes like root beer. The connotation just isn't there for us.
BlueHeartXXX okay that actually makes sense! I was like "have they ever TASTED toothpaste?!" So confused on how they thought root beer tasted like medicine. 😂
BlueHeartXXX - If I had found a toothpaste that tasted like rootbeer when I lived in Germany, I'd still find a way to obtain it by the case here in the states. No idea what they're on about.
I'm kind of an odd duck. I can't stand A&W. I prefer Mug or Barq's, IBC if I can afford it. I think it's because A&W has too much vanilla flavor and I'm not a fan of vanilla.
1. Rootbeer is best served COLD. 2. A & W is trash 3. Virgils and Barq’s are personally the best. 4. That guy who shook the drink holding device or mug or can or whatever 😭
I feel personally victimized by this video. Root beer is amazing.
i am from the netherlands and over here there regularly is no root beer, but some ingredients they put in root beer are a primal taste ingredient in medicine and toothpaste in europe
Taylor Peppino yes girrrrl I love rootbeer
They should have tried Hank's root beer. That is a very smooth, buttery root beer and my Danish fiance thought it tasted like heaven. I could hardly pry him away from the bottles.
I like Barq''s but today I had a canned A&W root beer and it tasted of toilet paper and sweetener. The stuff they serve you in-restaurant is good but the cans are kind of gross.
I'm wondering if the problem might be the rootbeer isn't chilled? Cause it's best cold. In a frosty mug.
Well Ireland, you don't like peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches and you don't like root beer. I'm afraid we just can't be friends.
Joe Momma hahahahaha
top of the .. wait you don't like pb and j ... *shoots them*
Yeah their all dead to me as well.
Joe Momma ikr lmao
I'm Irish and I love all three of those things, rootbeer a bit less because it has that medicine taste but it also kind of tastes like dr pepper to me which is great, not all of us think the same as facts
"People drink this?"
Also Irish: *invented an alcoholic creamer to drink alcohol at all times*
They killed their taste buds
@@Fennily 😂😂😂
I’m a decent amount Irish and alcoholism runs in my family so I blame my ancestors
@@Fennily I think you're the ones who killed your taste buds lmao
If you mean Bailey's, it's was inveted by an Englishman to get rid of excess milk. There's nothing Irish about Irish Cream alcohol.
I’m from Ireland originally but growing up in America you come to realize how amazing root beer tastes
it tastes like diluted tcp antiseptic
Root beer is an acquired taste. Us root beer drinkers can taste the difference in every can or bottle
Edit: Thankyou all, for all the likes.
Sooo truthful
Bull Dog brand is the best😊
Exactly
"do you know what's really frightening? if you drink enough of it, you begin to like it."
a nigga dare insult my root beer
Was it cold? That affects the taste alot
Very true. There are a lot of soft drinks that taste like complete crap unless they are cold. Even your standard Coke tastes 100 times better when its nice and cold.
In fact maybe the real problem is they aren't pouring these over ice.
Big difference in flavor between warm, room temp and cold rootbeer for sure.
I know that as we use mostly mint flavors in our toothpaste in Europe their toothpastes taste similar to RootBeer. That could be part of it too.
Ron SmīcZ there’s no mint in root beer
@@zen528 you need to learn to read entire statements before you respond to them.
Im just going to assume that you didnt read the whole paragraph and your brighter than you sound.
Ice cold in a frosty cold mug that causes the root beer to freeze on contact with the glass is the proper way to drink it.
I've been drinking root beer all my life, and I know it has wintergreen in it, but I never would have thought of describing it as minty.
Go chiefs
@@saulgoodman2912 GO CHIEFS!
@@007robotchicken rip chiefs...
@@huhhuh364 Yeah, it was an unfortunate way to end a great season, but I'm happy we at least made it there.
Since I've grown up a bit I have noticed a bit of a mint flavor to rootbeer
TLDR: once you have enough of root beer you'll start to love it.
Long version: As an Iranian, my aunt who lived in the US would come to Iran every 3-4 years to see my grandmother, my family and relatives. One of the things she brought for the kids (myself being one) as souvenirs were Dum Dums (American lollipops). For us Iranians it was exciting to discover new flavours in the candies we had experienced locally like blueberry, butterscotch etc. but one that really stood out was root beer. Literally my entire family hated those, so nobody ate them. But you know, you go through the entire box and in the end you'll have to eat the ones you don't like too. But nobody even touched the root beer flavoured ones, so I started eating those and slowly but surely I developed a taste for them to that point that they became my favourite flavour by the end of the box! Decades later, my grandmother, aunts and many relatives had passed away, I was travelling to Canada to go to a wedding and happened to stop at a Wendy's to get a burger and there it was, an actual root beer drink for the first time in my life! I ordered one and drank it (the flavour was very close to Dum Dums!) and man, it was nostalgia in my mouth. I had a few tears thinking about my grandma and auntie, but thanks to Root Beer, I'll remember them every time I pop one open.
That’s actually a cool story. I’d send you some Root Beer barrels if I could!
What a surprisingly sweet story coming from such an unexpected place
I love root beer, and always have, but I did grow up drinking the stuff so I have a lot of wonderful memories connected to the taste of root beer, too. Have you ever tried cream soda? It is a vanilla soda, too, though a different vanilla, so you might like it, too. It isn't as dark tasting, but does have its own unique profile, like root beer does. I feel as nostalgic with that soda as I do root beer. I think Dum Dums makes that flavor, too, if I am remembering correctly. Both flavors always take me back to my childhood when my family lived in Florida. My aunt had a beautiful pool in her back yard and it was fully screened in, even overhead, and the yard was completely enclosed with thick privacy hedges and beautiful landscaping, so it felt like we were the only people in the world. The patio surrounding the pool had the most comfortable lounge furniture and grill area, and tropical plants and flowers everywhere, that made it feel more like a fantasy scene out of an old movie, than it did someone's back yard. My uncle was a hard worker, and was both a mail carrier and a police officer, but was a big kid at heart, so was a lot of fun, when he would have barbeques and play with us kids. When we moved out of state, we continued to go back down to Florida for vacations, and we would always take a big variety of canned sodas, root beer and cream soda always being included, and we would stay with my aunt and uncle. Now I cannot taste either of them without my mind going right back to their back yard barbeques in their heavenly back yard. My uncle has long since passed, and my aunt is now elderly, living with her daughter and her husband in Louisiana, and I never have the opportunity to travel anymore, so those memories are even more precious than ever to me, and I am so thankful that I have them! I rarely drink soda of any kind anymore, but I do, on rare occasions, drink one, and relive as many memories as I can, while I savor the flavor.
I loved your story so much, thanks for sharing it with us! I also LOVE root beer!!!
Thanks for sharing this man, actually a beautiful story, your loved ones are in my prayers!
Why weren't they ice cold?! Warm root beer is not good!
I actually like some root beers warm or rather room temp. Some are gross though like Barqs but I think Brownie Caramel Cream is good warm.
Exactly
sirMAXX true
The colder something is, the less flavor it has.
The Irish drink everything at room temperature except tea.
What the hell kind of toothpaste do they have in Ireland that A&W smells like toothpaste to them?? 😦
Wait a minute, reading these comments, I have to ask.... did you guys REALLY give them lukewarm root beer?? No wonder they hated it! All sodas are supposed to be cold, *especially* root beer.
Ive had it cold but it still tasted like toothpaste/ medicine to me
In America, we don't usually add 'root beer flavor' to toothpaste and muscle creams and stuff, but in most other nations, that's their first/only exposure to the taste and scent of what we call root beer. So they only associate it with medicine, and we practically never do.
I'm American, and I think the Dad's root beer smells and tastes like toothpaste. That's the only root beer I dislike.
How dare you, Dad's is the best!
For all of Americas faults, Im glad I was born here... for Root Beer alone. I love Root Beer.
But Root Beer is Canadian...
Glennski Wills root beer is the worst thing ever
MoodyHD: its definitely an acquired taste. Lol
Tusk: for real?! Thank you Canada! Oh! Canada 🇨🇦!!! I root for thee!
Yup, we've had root beer for much longer then the US, we also invented ginger ale, best brand is Canada dry
It's a tragedy that so many people don't like root beer because they associate it with medicine. There's nothing like a super cold root beer -- the combination of sweet vanilla with that herbal bite is so refreshing! Barq's is my favorite!! If you get used to the taste you can definitely tell the difference between them.
Barq’s is the best one no doubt!
Barq's was my go-to, but currently, IBC has me in a chokehold.
I can understand the dislike for peanut butter flavour in everything, but this disdain for Root Beer was shocking. Root Beer is awesome.
Root beer is rank.
Seems a strange trend with the Irish, many dislike peanut butter, rootbeer, chocolate... ? I personally am not a root beer fan, I can drink it but it isn't something I would buy ever. I like many other sodas before root beer.
@@eolsunder I mean I can understand not liking rootbeer and peanut butter but chocolate? Now thats just crazy talk.
@Sean Legghette Root Beer tastes like medicine at all temperatures.
Both Peanut Butter and Root Beer are awesome. Occasionally, I like Mug root beer or Barq's root beer or grape soda (Welches or Crush) with pizza (thin crust, extra cheese, pepperoni, Italian sausage, green peppers and the purple onions).😋
• Mug Root Beer
• Smuckers All Natural Peanut Butter, Chunky.
👍👍
Those people aren't drinking A&W root beer correctly... It is to be drank from a frosted mug and the can is to be ice cold before pouring.
I don't know why... but drinking A&W from a frosted mug just makes it taste better.
Skythos
A&W and the more difficult to find Dog ‘n’ Suds, which used to have quite a lot of drive-ins. The root beer at the latter is not quite as carbonated out of the tap- old-school taps, not modern machine taps.
AndyK304 I know... I used to live near one before the property was sold and the location became a McDonalds. A&W Root Beer tastes better, to me at least, than the brands available around here. Barqs has too much bite for my liking, and while I do like this other brand (which the brand name escapes me at the moment) that primarily comes in bottles... it is not carried by any stores close to my house.
Skythos
I agree with you on Barqs for the most part, but I recall my first Barqs, the very cold can on a hot day.
We have two Dog ‘n’ Suds in West Michigan, one in Muskegon and one in Montague. The only thing wrong is that they use those food service onion rings, while back in the ‘70s they dipped big, thin sliced in batter,
to be drank?
James McInnis Far as I'm aware 'To be drank' is the correct wording... and my Grammerly app agrees.
But then again, grammar isn't my forte so...
In any case... I stand by opinion of A&W Root Beer!
:P
So they had all the Root Beers warm, That is like them having a Milkshake that had been nuked in the microwave FFS
I usually like it about room temperature where I live, but everyone's different.
Well they're Irish, they had to fuck it up somehow.
Chime Rift you monster
Warm, cold, they all taste like a victorian cure for tuberculosis. The reason you Yanks like it, is because you are descended from the insane of Europe.
not all of it. when they shook up the Barq's, it didn't spew, so it would have been colder to do what it did.
I'm Italian and it's my favorite drink. Unfortunately you can't find it here in Italy... I tried it for the first time in Illinois on Route 66 years and years ago and from that moment I fell madly in love with Root Beer. It has a unique, ancient and very refined flavour. It was literally instant love! LONG LIVE ROOT BEER! ❤️
I always considered Brio Chinotto a root beer variant, and it is one of my absolute favorites.
@@hhiippiittyy You're right! Chinotto, like root beer, is also a drink with a great history. I'm happy that you like it! 😎
We'll trade for spaghetti my friend 🇺🇸 🇮🇹
@@proverbially_speaking5524 Happy to do it my friend! 🇮🇹❤️🇺🇲
Happy to hear a non-American say this! Hear hear!
When I was stationed in Germany I took perverse pleasure in handing a root beer to a German and watching the ensuing hilarity. They hate it as much as I love it.
Like a Finn sharing salmiak with an American? 😂
I was surprised to learn they didnt have the best soda anywhere in europe. Ive never been more nationalistic and patriotic for america than that moment.
@@devina8812 The chemical used in rootbeer that gives its smell and taste is only used in europe for things like medicine and mouthwash. We just cannot get used to the taste and 99 out of 100 europeans will gag when tasting it for the first time.
@@samok481 I’ve heard
Have you tried Not your father's root beer?
It HAS to be cold tho..if it ain't cold, it ain't worth drinking!
No soda is.
Incorrect. Original coke is designed to be drank at room temperature, because it was invented before refrigeration.
FoxyWhite yeah and it had cocaine in it. I think that you can drink anything at any temperature if it had cocaine in it.
T Roberts ??? Iceboxes existed
Because it was originally a medicine.
How do you make this and NOT give them a root beer float?
DOUBLE YES!!
Agreed. Maybe they should take the same group of people and make them have root beer floats to see their new reaction.
That would be really funny, especially the part where they watch someone put ice cream in the stuff and hand it to them. The looks on their faces would be priceless.
Jamie Senft Lol, you beat me to it, figured they'd give them one at the end.
How could they do this and not give them Sioux City Sarsaparilla??
Dammit, I was thinking the EXACT, SAME THING!!!!!!!!!!!! To make matters EVEN WORSE, they didn't even let them try IBC Root Beer!!!!!
"This is vile!
"It's so bubbly, cloying and happy. But you know what's truly frightening? If you drink enough of it you start to like it."
"It's insidious!"
"Just like the Federation"
Quark and Garak ST:DS9
I only come here to see them hate and overreact to things they aren't used to.
seriously
They always doing too much...
TheUltimateKIC Yeah like personal hygiene
it's not about not being used to it, it's objectively a nasty thing to drink
It's almost like you pinpointed the entire purpose of these videos. Does anyone have a cookie for our little champion here?
I never thought of root beer as being an acquired taste. Weird
TheCycloneRanger i hate it lol everyone thinks i'm weird
The cause is methyl salicylate (a less toxic substitute for the chemical 'sassafras albidum' originally used to flavor root beer and sarsaparilla)... many countries use the chemical to flavor medicines, and a subconscious association is made between the chemical and a material that is purely medicinal.
A few countries (i.e. United States) do NOT use methyl salicylate to flavor medicine, and the association is never made for their population, allowing their minds to connect the taste with other culinary bitters (such as arugula, coffee and saffron).
I was just about to say that I think you need to have grown up with it... Never mind a root beer float; what a perfect way to ruin a perfectly nice scoop of vanilla ice cream. Blech.
I also never really thought anybody hated root beer more than any other kind of carbonated soda.
Alex's theory is interesting though.
TheCycloneRanger every taste is acquired thats how we choose what we do or dont like to eat
There’s a certain amount of outrage watching someone dislike a&w
Barqs is better mane
Virgils is better it doesn’t taste like chemicals in a can
@@mazdaman2315 every thing tastes like chemicals
@@leviathan7234 oh really what about a brick?
@@mazdaman2315 even a brick everything is made of chemicals therefore every thing taste like chemicals
A&W root beer “That is muck” them fighting words up here son
I'm not surprised because I've seen a number of vids and 99% of Europeans don't like root beer. I find it bizarre.
Apparently it's like Vegemite with the Australians.. No one likes it but them.
right i thats what i consider root beer is american Vegemite. and as an american i love root beer
Well, I'm from Germany. I tried root beer and I loathe it.
Seriously, it's one of the worst tastes I ever experienced. I still can't get over it. I still remember that horrible day eight years ago... when Americans talked about it, it sounded so nice! I was expecting so much!
And it was just the wooooooorst taste ever. :(
lol
My lady is Russian, and she LOVES root beer. She would punch a unicorn in the eye for a frosty mug of root beer.
I know the feeling. I remember when I've watched a couple of videos of Americans trying foreign candy and snacks, like the ones enjoyed by South Slavic nations. You see, over here in countries that were once a part of Yugoslavia, a peanut butter snack called "smoki" or "smokići" is as popular as chips.
I must say that all of us found it bizarre and even shocking when Americans universally decided that they hate smoki. "How can you not like them!?!?!?! BLASPHEMY!!!!"
watching this video makes me want some root beer
Ice cold in a frosted mug!
Barq's FTW
same here...now i want some root beer so bad
kyle7412 me too
Yes, big frosty mug. Looks like they served it warm too.
I have the feeling they're consuming these root beers at room temperature, which is how most beer is consumed by people from Ireland.
The thing is, you DON'T DRINK ROOT BEER AT ROOM TEMPERATURE. It must be consumed COLD.
And why did no one make these poor souls a root beer float?
Chase Roush I don't know where you're getting your information from but nobody drinks beer at room temperature in Ireland...
Eoin English
I've heard that in a lot of places in europe alcohol is served room temperature.
Octavian Couldn't be more wrong.
Drapes Drapper come on man,everyone knows any town/city you go to has their own brewery and the fuckin lager is never cold, its straight up piss,warm piss,thank christ for Heineken!
I've worked in many bars and people always ask for the extra cold tap. Unless its ale where it comes as cold as it comes lol. But when it comes to lager never have i ever heard anybody mention the lunacy of drinking room temperature lager. If these people exist you should do gods work and refuse to acknowledge their existence. Heineken extra cold with the frosted glass is too satisfying.
In the words of Quark: "It's so bubbly, cloy, and happy. And the most frightening thing, once you drink enough of it, you begin to like it."
Just like the Federation.
Garak is disguised on this video when he described it as vile!!!
Ugh, Root Beer. It's definitely a love or hate kind of thing. That said, colder is better. Never serve soft drinks warm, never.
Foamy the Elephants Child I personally like my coke room temperature, brings out the sugar taste
OmniBass yeah but coke isn't root beer
Like licorice
charley starks I know
I /only/ drink soft drinks warm... rather room temperature. Cold drinks are annoying, especially with ice.
I wish they would have given them COLD root beers. It tastes way better cold.
Amen! They should have tried I.B.C. too, which my uncle convinced me stood for "It's Better Cold".
It was not cold?! Good lord.
actually in all honesty most of them are, but I got a 2 litre of A&W the other day from the store and was too damn thirsty to wait so I drank it warm...….. and it was actually kind of awesome. tried some others and they suck warm, but A&W almost tasted like chocolate or something when its warm, surprisingly. if you've ever been to an A&W restaurant and tried it straight from the keg where its incredibly frothy and fresh? i'd compare the way it tasted warm, to that taste. it was odd, but awesome.
I’m pretty sure it was cold
So it tastes better when you can't taste it as much? Great advertisement
I watch a lot of facts videos. It seems like the Irish have a fairly localized and limited palate...
Yeah, that one when they scrambled up people who drank coffe for the first time... Please, that was just bogus. BUT, root beer? I have never seen anywhere but in the US. And don't even think of introducing it in Europe (I'm sure they tried, unsuccessfully); this kind of tasty-but-foul thing is sth you have had to grow up with to enjoy. Every country has'em.
grytlappar Canada has root beer! But then again we're close to the US so
grytlappar I don't think finding people who haven't had coffee before is that unrealistic. I am in my twenties and besides a sip or 2 when I was like 8 I have never had coffee and I certainly have never had a latte or anything like that.
i know right, its like theyre on some fuckin island or something
Pot, kettle. Most americans have limited palates, too. Extremely limited. Like "I only like pot roast and boiled potatoes" kind of limited.
“Wow it’s looks exactly like the other ones”. Yeah it’s all root beer, it’s all gonna be the same color.
I think he's just lamenting that it's gonna be the same as the last one he didn't like.
There's a saying: "To like peanut butter, you have to be born in America. To like root beer, your grandparents have to have been born in America."
Sarsaparilla, anyone? ;-)
lexica510 Not really.
Root Beer taste nasty but Peanut Butter is the best especially Peanut Butter in Chocolate.
I really like this.
Root beer, Dr. Pepper, Mr. Pibb and Mountain Dew are crimes against humanity.
@@diddiaskew3084 I agree with Mr. Pibb, but don't go hating on the DP!
My brother and mom love root beer, I HATE IT. That's and cream soda. Do not like.
My GOD, why are they drinking it warm??? Who drinks soda pop warm??? You know for the most part they should change these videos to:
What Irish People HATE about American Foods Today!
Have you been to Europe? In the countries I have been to they serve very little ice cold.
@@michaelbrennan6123 then you must of went to some piss poor places.
I'm offended you called soda, "pop". You fucking savages I tell you
@@michaelbrennan6123 yes I live in Europe
@@SuperKOR246 I'm a savage from Ohio and we call it pop..lol
person : Here try this
Irish person : Wow this is really good
person : yeah it’s an American drink
Irish person : *spits it out dramatically*
KBeez lol right. Who the fuck doesn't like root beer
Jack Benimble I know right
^this channel in a nutshell
KBeez very funny..., but, actually, compared to other Europeans (yes, ya ARE), the Irish are some of the least guilty of this practice. The people in these videos just happen to be assholes... or is it arseholes? And for the record, most Americans I know do NOT like root beer.
Jack Benimble I don't.
So fun fact. Barq's Root Beer was developed and manufactured about 30 miles from where I live in Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi. When The Coca-Cola Company bought them out and moved production to Atlanta, Georgia, they had a hard time getting the flavor just right. They sent a team of scientific investigators to the old Mississippi plant and what they found is that the original Barq's was using polluted water out of the Biloxi river. People around me to this day still remember and prefer the original flavor to the new one.
Thats kinda fucked
Murica lol
add a scoop of ice cream
thats what i was hoping for
make it a float? That's the American way :)
Why do you think we like it?
root beer is disgusting in any form.
yep a root beer floats would be great
This is to Americans what Marmite tasting is to Australians. Neither understands how not everybody could love something that each considers so great.
absofuckinglutely agree.
Marmite? Ewwwww! Tastes like burnt transmission fluid smells!
Yea Root Beet Is Sh.t
Rose Vanterpool You're shit
@@Mugelbbub16 True, except marmite is fermented bullshit harvested from a dead bovine's asshole--
and Root Beer is the elixir of the gods. It is summer in a frosted mug. It's jizz on tits.
Brit here loves root beer but it's gotta be icy cold.
a frosted mugg helps too, where its cold enough to have ice slivers in it.
Mike Page, Warm root beer sucks :P
With vanilla ice cream.
@Mike Page, Here, here!
i actually generally prefer root beer less cold, i feel i can taste more of the flavor.....D the frosty mug is a nice touch, though.....)
this is not a mug moment
How could you not make them a root beer float.
das hasguns exactly what I said!!
Maybe then they would get it! !!!!
That's the only way I can drink the shit(e)!
das hasguns they did in another video
Chelsea Louise Cold root beer with a scoop or two of ice cream on top. It's quite loved here in Canada and I'm presuming in the US too.
Who ever sent this in should of said “serve ice cold”
That was my first thought. Was it cold? I can maybe understand that they didn't really like it if it was room temperature. Most sodas don't taste nearly as good at room temperature.
Nope, serve at room temperature.
@@ireallyreallyhategoogle ew no way lol
@@EsMum That's how i drink it.
Always drinking cold beverages is bad for you.
@@ireallyreallyhategoogle thats a myth
"It all tastes the same" ITS ALL ROOTBEER.
BriBriJen15 Ikr 😂😂😂😂
Yeah I was confused because it seemed like he thought each one was supposed to be a completely different flavor. I'm sure an American would be able to pick up the subtle differences in each, but still it's all the same drink, there's not going to be radical differences.
Not all root beer tastes the same. Not even close. SO many different varieties. And pretty much all the ones they chose to sample were shitty. Virgil's was the best of the bunch, by far, but all the others in this video were uniformly craptastic.
Eric L ok good thing they didn't try mugs tho I do love barqs
Sweet jesus, Mugs...that stuff is criminal.
Where's the mug
I am from London and I love Root Beer. ((I lived in the states for a while :) ))
When I studied in London I couldn't find rootbeer anywhere.
seraphyn22 i am from the United States and i don't care
"they all look the same" No shit sherlock they are all ROOT BEER just different brands.
Right? It's like would they say that if they tried different bottled water brands too?
Tacobell1384 I've never tried root beer, but I suppose that they expected variety in looks like real beer?! I don't know :-)
If you try different colas you can tell the difference though. Never mind actual beer... LOL
+Tacobell: Surely they have different recipes; a water bottle comparison? Gtfo.
I could imagine if we gave them lemon-lime soda and Sprite, they'd be like "WHAT THE FUCK THEY'RE ALL THE SAME, WHY?"
Ohhhh SHIT!!!!!!!! Hire's Root Beer!!!!! Now, that's one I haven't heard in a long, long, LONG time!!!!!! I think my mom started me off with Hire's.
I'm Dutch and I love root beer, IBC and A&W are my favourites.
Sadly I can't buy IBC over here, so I can only drink it when I'm in the US.
i like Boylan's root beer here in nyc
I'm Texan and I've never been a fan of root beer by any means, but I do agree that IBC is pretty good. But even though I don't necessarily like root beer all that much, it's definitely not as bad as they all make it out to be in this video. Their reactions are way over the top and unnecessary. There's a reason root beer is as popular as it is, and that's because tons of people like it. I don't know, maybe I'm just annoyed by their ridiculous over the top reactions in the video.
I don’t drink soda but the only one I make an exception for is root beer. When you go to places that have it, you need to get an ice cold glass bottle of root beer. No ice, just straight from the bottle. It’s heaven.
You should have let them try IBC root beer too. And I bet they don't like birch beer or cream soda either.
good cream soda is a gift from the gods.
I think Hank's is superior to IBC, but I'm not sure how readily available it is as it's based in Philadelphia. IBC is probably second to me, though.
I like Boylan's red birch beer and IBC root beer but I suspect the Irish would not care for either.
So glad someone else thought if IBC! Their root beer is good, but their cream soda is divine nectar! lol Jones is a better mixer, but IBC straight is SOOOOOO good! :D
yobhsiFehT lol what u be mixing 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍼🍼🍼
Guinness tastes like ditch water and bile to me, so I guess we're even.
NoJusticeNoPeace that is a VERY unique description
that is a very accurate description
NoJusticeNoPeace Outside Ireland Guinness does taste like ditch water, but in Ireland it is fantastic. No bitterness, it's smooth and carmel like in flavor, the formula changes when it has to endure shipping, more's the pity.
I do agree. I never liked Guinness much, but when I drank it in Ireland it sort of agreed with me...
aj gensel- As far as I know most Guinness sold outside Ireland and the UK isn't made in Ireland, they licence the recipe to a local brewer. For example here in Canada Guinness is made by Labatts.
I'm from korea, and I lived in America for three years when I was 11. I still remember when I had my first root beer at my friends birthday party. It was nothing like I've ever tasted before and made me gag. It was disgusting, and they had root beer candy too lol. I was shocked that anybody liked it. But as the years went buy. I started to like that strange drink. It's like, strange addictive taste that makes you wanna drink again and again although you hate it. Kinda like smelling your own fart. Anyway, root beer is a one of a kind drink, and it has it's charm.
The problem is that where America uses Cherry flavoring for cough drops, Europe uses the base of root beer.
Cool
I used to hate beer and its taste with all my passion when I was a kid,now I drink like 2 beer bottles a day,especially the black beer which contains 6-7% alcohol it tastes better
🤣
@@Stevarooni now I know why they all say it tastes like medicine
From the UK and root beer is my favourite soft drink. I love it.
How do you not like root beer you animals
I hate root beer was born in England
Because it's disgusting.
I'd put it this way, my brother's and I don't like it. However all my nephews and nieces and cousins born in the USA, love it.
Yuckkkkkkkkkkkk you can have it lol.
ripplesnake it's something american like. Like I like Steak and Kidney pie. To me it tastes like mouth wash.
I’m British and RootBeer is hands down my fav fizzy drink
Auction Evo dude don’t be a asshole
Auction Evo HE DIDN’T FUCKING DO THAT, DID HE?
@@EvoVFX U WOT M8? Don't say that about British people. One of my closest friends is a Brit!
WHY DIDNT THEY GIVE THEM A ROOTBEER FLOAT???!!!
Because if your drink needs to be mostly ice cream to be nice, maybe it's not actually very good at all, and you don't want your ice cream ruined by a mediocre-at-best soft drink.
How dare you! Root beer is best drink.
@ Paul Dennett A root beer float has a small scoop of vanilla ice cream in it. It's not a sundae with root beer poured over the top like caramel or hot fudge.
Allison Sulouff cause they hate them
Allison Sulouff that's what I was about to say
@3:10 "I think you're just adapting to what root beer tastes like"
Garak voice: "It's insidious"
didn't realize rootbeer was such a acquired taste. toothpaste/ what the fuck? wats going on with your tastebuds irish folk ......coming from a irish guy who lives in canada
I certainly think it is an acquired taste. I believe root beer sucks, and cannot understand why anyone likes it. Perhaps I wasn't introduced to it early enough and gotten used to its flavor. The reason for that is likely when my parents first tasted root beer, they thought it sucked.
yes true! i just thought they were over exaggerating with the toothpaste part....I was never really raised on it myself, always tasted something like a coke and a dr pepper mixed for me. hardly toothpaste. lol
Maybe they have different flavored toothpaste in Ireland? Rootpaste lol
It tastes like that really mild mouthwash that they give you at the dentist/orthodontist after you get a filling, a flavour we're trailed from a very young age to not swallow
@@sub7se7en it could be a genetic thing. I know some people dont like the taste of broccoli because they were born with a gene that allows them to taste a certain chemical that makes the vegetable bitter.
looks like they're drinking it hot. PUT ICE IN IT!!!
Or, in a frosted mug... nearly food porn
Or better yet a soup of ice cream
I was thinking the SAME thing
Art a
Or put the bottles and cans in a fridge....
Who thinks root beer is served warm the producers are idiots!!!
Did you even chill it before drinking?
That what i was thinking they look like room temp, Root Beer has to be Cold very cold.
Oh jesus I feel bad for them if they didn't have it chilled, that's the only way to drink it.
They should be drinking these out of chilled glass mugs.
im an american drinking root beer for the first time while watching this video and root beer tastes amazing
I fucking love root beer...
jimboa20 Same
I'm literally drinking an A&W root beer while watching this. Y'all got some weird tastebuds. FYI, Irish on both sides of my family.
Literally same. Except 2 months later
literally
Bro same but its 3 am
I like banks and virgils
only my dad's side is irish lol but yeah same
I stopped drinking soda when I was a teen, but A&W root beer makes me nostalgic.
I especially love those *A&W root beer candies* shaped like barrels!! 🍺
Ooh or a root beer slushie. They should try one of those.
C*Stereo OMG! Thanks for taking me back! Those were so good!
C*Stereo the barrels were the absolute best part of trick-or-treating! Damn... I start going out for Halloween again
Anyone remember A&W cream soda? It was caramel colored and friggin delicious.
+steveyj75
Yes, I do remember that soda! Is it discontinued, I wonder?
Mug root beer >>
A & W Root beer is the best
Out of all the cheap options yes, but nothing beats those gourmet ones.
Yeah definitely out of the easy to get ones but sioux city is the best I've ever had.
ew
Not true
Nah, IBC is tops.
Irish People: "We hate Root Beer!!" Me: "Yeah well... You all sound like Sinead O'Connor, so take that!"
Kevin Ewing someone can't take a joke.
I am American..
And I can not Stand Root Beer...to me it's just to Sweet.
Go Ireland..and Ban it from your Shores and if other Nations Like it ..i say put a stop to Trade with that Nation.
Man how I Hate fucking Root Beer and Lawn Nomes..but that's just a Whole other Story.
i'd take that as a compliment no matter how offended i am by this video
The sweetness is the problem and not that it tastes like floor cleaner(Son, how do you know what floor cleaner tastes like? Listerine I think was developed as a general purpose disinfectant.)
Kevin Ewing somebody’s potatoes haven’t been growing!
Hands down root beer is my favorite\ go to fizzy drink. I enjoy sprite and 7up on occasion. But nothing will ever top a nice ice cold root beer.
Root beer is my most treasured drink. I love it!
Quark:"I want you to try something for me..take a sip of this" ( Garak:"What is it?") Quark:"A human drink..USA..it's called rootbeer"( Garak:"Ah I don't know") Quark:"Come on aren't you just a little bit curious? (Garak takes a sip.."it's vile!") Quark:"I know,its so bubbly,cloy,and happy..but you know what is really frightening..if you drink enough of it you begin to like it." Garak:". It's ... insidious .."
PwnishR thank you for this
Babylon 5 is a better show😁
I love DS9. Lol
Best DS9 quote
I don't understand how he kept expecting the same type of drink to have a wildly different flavor every time.
Henry Hancock ... What is funny is many of those Root Beer they tasted have very different tastes already and they could not taste the difference at all.
They're idiots with very bad palettes.
His pallet is not sophisticated. There is no other explanation. The other's could at least tell the difference, which there is . He would likely eat shit if they said it was chocolate pudding.
Paul Walsh you made my day with that comment, that is too true
As someone who loves root beer and have tried all of those in the video, I can assure you they taste very different
Definitely a difference in cultures showing here. We Americans, in general, LOVE this shit. lol
also birch beer
+Emma ~ So true!
And sarsaparilla! Yummo!
nah root beer sucks.
I use to like root beer but idk what happened maybe because there's more artificial stuff in it, that I don't like it anymore.... although when someone opens an IBC root beer it still smells good but I'm not risking it
You know what's really frightening? If you drink enough of it, you begin to like it. It's insidious.
Root Beer tastes best when it's saturated in vanilla ice cream. FYI
Chelsy Reed FY I already knew that
Chelsy Reed MUG doesn't need ice cream to taste good.
Lol.😂 I love root beer. Especially with vanilla ice cream ♡
That's a float.
brown cow ;)
JRSiebz
Brown cow is used for a few different combos. I’ve read people using it for a root beer float that uses chocolate ice cream, and as a Coke or Dr. Pepper float using vanilla ice cream.
Alucard Helsing. It's still root beer
Lol, when the guy said that rootbeer was vile, it reminded me of a Deep Space 9 episode.Quark gets Garak to try rootbeer, and garak said "Its Vile!", and quark says "the sad thing is, the more you drink it, the more you start to like it. Just like the Federation"
I had to scroll for 5 minutes to find this comment...
hope it was worth the effort, nugs
YES! Brilliant scene.
Oh my gosh I loved that scene! Quark was like my favorite Star Treck character of all time, he was hilarious!
Quark was hands down the best character ever written for Star Trek
People who don't have MUG as their favorite will never be Chads
Next Irish People try Soda Floats : Root Beer, Cream Soda, Orange Soda
Adult Version :
(Coke & Bailey's Irish cream over ice cream )
* ice cream
* Shot (or) 2 of Bailey's Irish cream
* 1 can coke
* straw
Add a shot or two of Jagermeister to the adult version for an adult root beer float.
Don't forget Big Red floats and grape pop floats. Honestly you can make floats with just about any pop/soda (where I'm from we say pop).
Also, why not just use hard soda in a float for the "adult version".
Most of the non-Americans I've mentioned floats to refuse to even consider having them.
You have the rootbeer float, the brown cow (Coke, Pepsi, Royal Crown), the white lamb (7UP, Sprite). I don't know if any others have actual names to them...
jack daniels root canal
*vanilla ice cream
*Jack Daniels Honey
*Not your fathers root beer
Drinking root beer while watching this
Javier tacos suck.
Javier, you know you're not supposed to eat Ben gay right?
I love this comment 😂
Like a boss bro
Oh shit, I just realized... is root beer the American Vegemite?
yup
Less yeasty, more rooty.
No because a majority of Americans like root beer, whereas a majority of Australians hate Vegemite.
Hedgpig I wouldn't say the majority of Aussies hate vegemite, plus we have root beer here it's just called sarsaparilla
We have Sarsaparilla here as well it tastes nothing like Root Beer.
"It smells like a broken home". Literal lmao
Root Beer is a special case and most people taste test it wrong.
3 Rules
1. Temperature COLD - think beer, the cooler the better but not frozen
2. A Frozen Mug
3. NO ICE
Warm Root Beer is disgusting, if you're going to try it, do it right.
Only bad American watered down beers need to be as cold as possible. Good quality beers need to be cold but not as cold as Budweiser, Coors etc. need to be.
Root beer is not actual beer.
Night of Emerald Dream but sir, it's a soda...
+Night of Emerald Dream, shocking how many people don't get what your saying, and think your talking about it like beer. People this is how you drink it.
Night I've lived overseas, & most other countries don't drink their beer, or soda, as cold as we do here.
root beer is the single greatest soft drink ever! Barqs root beer
♥Patreeky! Nice pic :o)
How..? How do they all hate it? These Irish people are broken, ya gotta get new ones.
The flavoring used in root beer is pretty similar to the flavoring used in a lot of European cough syrups. So suspect for them, this is what it's like for a lot of Americans that dislike "cherry" flavored stuff. The flavor is just too strongly associated with medicine.
Meh, I still love cherry medicine flavored things. I'd sure as hell love sassafras flavored medicine!
Omg...I still hate that cherry flavoring crap that all the children's cold medicines seemed to use! So now it makes more sense why they'd all think root beer tastes like medicine. Thank you for the insight!
If Europe medicine taste like root beer, I'll be excited to take that medicine. When I was a kid, I had to take a type of cough syrup that had no specific artificial flavor and tasted like pure chemicals.
Evi1M4chine Woah, cool it there. I am just going off from the first guy who replied who said that flavoring that are used in root beer are similar to that to European cough syrups. No need to get triggered.
As a Root Beer fan myself I can understand how its a unique flavor and can take a bit of getting used to but once you do you will love it so much.
“We don’t like the smell or taste of Root Beer”
Yet, you enjoy the urine and yeast smell and taste of beer. 🤦♂️
That's the cheap shit, Irish, Belgians, and Germans have a lot of craft beer diversity and you're more likely to find something to like.
I was expecting Not Your Fathers Rootbeer to be at the end.
Kyle Furtwangler I'm not a drinker, but I had to try that this time I've come back home to Texas. It was fairly decent! They don't have it in Australia, though.
Kyle Furtwangler NYF is the best of the alcoholic root beers. "Best Damn Root Beer" and 'Coney Island Root Beer" taste awful. i love NYF
Kyle Furtwangler yeah, me too
IBC, Mug, Virgils, and A&W are my favorite brands of Root Beer.
You have a good taste in root beer
Mug moment
Bad taste. This post was made by barqs gang
One of my favorite star trek scenes is quarks bar. Quark hands Garak a glass and pours a dark liquid into it and asks him to sample it. He does and recoils at it's flavor! " It's vile!" He scowls at quark. Quark says "I know, it's so cloying and bubbly and happy. " Garak immediately catching his drift. Garak wryly smirks "It's insidious." Quark looking mournful, says " you wanna know the frightening part?" If you drink enough of it, you'll tend to like it!" Just like the Americans!
I think I need to try some Irish toothpaste and/or cough medicine if it tastes like root beer!
A 'go to' thing to do when reacting to something new? not really. On this case. i have tasted atleast the A&W root beer and it does taste like some medicines and toothpastes.
I honestly don't think she was trying to troll you. It seems to me she was just sharing her opinion about what you said. You both have different opinions based on what you've experienced and that's the kind of diversity that makes comment threads interesting to read. Also sometimes comments seem childish because they are written by children and from the looks of it that's what she is. (Sorry if that's not the case Haley) Anyways, no disrespect intended I just wanted to add my two cents on the matter.
I'm 24 now and that photo is god knows how old so i guess you'd be correct looking at my picture Jo lol and no David i wasn't trolling, but i did find your first comment offensive to be honest and if you honestly believe i was trying you troll you then i'm not going to be upset at the second comment despite being offensive. All in my opinion of course so i do not know if you were trying to be offensive but i was really just pointing out that its not something we brits do despite you thinking so and on this case atleast that brand of root beer does taste like some toothpastes and cough medicine. Sorry for the confusion and perhaps upsetting you
FYI americans use different ingredients in our tooth pastes/ mouth washes from most European countries, so NONE of our medicinal stuff tastes like root beer. The connotation just isn't there for us.
BlueHeartXXX okay that actually makes sense! I was like "have they ever TASTED toothpaste?!" So confused on how they thought root beer tasted like medicine. 😂
BlueHeartXXX - If I had found a toothpaste that tasted like rootbeer when I lived in Germany, I'd still find a way to obtain it by the case here in the states. No idea what they're on about.
+bandwagon240 SAME. Fucking root beer toothpaste? I'll actually start brushing my teeth again every day if I get my hands on some of that!
Let's first discuss your brushing habits man...
And I feel bad for only brushing my teeth ONCE a day lol
Irish People try Root Beer Floats/
we love root bear and sassperilla in the states!
Yes that is the only way I like Root Beer. LOL
Team Sesh how?
jordan fink they really missed out on the best way to enjoy Root Beer
I was going to suggest the same thing :D
So the world can be split in two categories: Those who don't like rootbeer, and those who have put a man on the moon.
IBC. They needed IBC Root Beer.
Jim Henson, IBC ice cold ftw.
That Virgils stuff is great, one of the best I've had. They need to drink these cold.
I was going to say I'm mad they didn't get ibc
They needed MUG.
Yyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it taste like medicine? damn you guys are lucky our medicine taste like shit at least yours taste like root beer
TheSinisterEyes1 hahahahaha! Nice
TheSinisterEyes1 there is actually an old fashioned toothpaste that tastes like root beer and hot mentol.
Next time they should have them try Buckley's, bet they'll never say something tastes like medicine again.
Their medicine must taste GREAT then. xD
MissUrsaMinor Wrong.
they actually prefer the Barq's? yuck. Give them the A&W with vanilla ice cream, man! ROOTBEER FLOATS ROOTBEER FLOATS ROOTBEER FLOATS!!
They did and they still hated it.
I don't mind Barq's, but it's absolute shit when it compares to A&W
I'm kind of an odd duck. I can't stand A&W. I prefer Mug or Barq's, IBC if I can afford it. I think it's because A&W has too much vanilla flavor and I'm not a fan of vanilla.
Dude I’m eating a root float rn!
@@VaiderGaming Then they dont really know what really joy is or what they have had joy with is terrible I must say.
1. Rootbeer is best served COLD.
2. A & W is trash
3. Virgils and Barq’s are personally the best.
4. That guy who shook the drink holding device or mug or can or whatever 😭
*mug
@@garrett4299 was it a mug? i couldn’t see lol ty
A&W is literally my favorite, haha. Sad y'all didn't like it (
Alex Stanley same! A&W is by far the best root beer ever!😍
Alex Stanley I thought they would love it. I don't think I've ever had a bad root beer.
Lindstant Karma sorry fam, but mug is better
itseffinsexxitime I mean, root beer is amazing no matter what, I'd drink any.
It's got that frosty mug taste.
Yay! They liked Barq's!
The artificial one. XD
my favorite too! I felt personally outcast when they put a&w for the first one
Barq's is the best. It hits your tongue so hard
my fav
MildlyEmo dad's uses real sugar :p
dad's
barqs
AW
Im not American, this was my reaction when i first drank root beer in the states:
"This shit is weird....I LOVE IT!"
Rootbeer is fking delicious, I don't know why most Europeans don't like it. Love you though, from Canada, cheers!
I didn't realise it was a thing until this video. I was really shocked when none of them liked A@W