And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Those root beer floats were awesome. There was a A&W less than a mile away from where we lived, but visits were rare and far between. We were of humble means.
We hosted an exchange student (Argentina) back when our kids were in high school. She has worked for a number of years in New York in finance and I consider her to be my "semi-daughter".
Anyway, she'd been with us for 6, maybe 7 months and one day she asked me "Is root beer, beer?". We laughed a bit at the missed-in-translation idea that root beer is a soft drink, and does not contain alcohol.
She then asked "What is this 'Dr. Pepper' that I see everywhere, and what does it taste like?"
Stopping at A&E was a serious treat, and a vanilla rootbeer float was mandatory. There was a drive thru A&W near our house, dad would order a huge bag of cheeseburgers and another of fries, for every one, the floats came in huge wax paper cups with lids and large straws and long spoons. Serious good eating. Totally awesome. Seems like another world now.
Back in the day, NO SOFT SERVE ICE CREAM. Two scoops of real ice cream. The cold root beer froze the outside of the ice cream into a shell. After eating half the ice cream, we mixed it into the root beer and drank the mixture. Real root beer. Real vanilla vanilla ice cream. Not the junk they have today.
The go-to for my 4 kids and for my 9 grands.
ReplyDeleteDaleC in Idaho
been a long time, maybe 40 year
ReplyDeleteOne left here in Clark County Nevada,,just outside of Vegas
DeleteReminds me of Johnny's hot dogs in Buttzville, N.J.
ReplyDeleteThose root beer floats were awesome. There was a A&W less than a mile away from where we lived, but visits were rare and far between. We were of humble means.
ReplyDeleteWe hosted an exchange student (Argentina) back when our kids were in high school. She has worked for a number of years in New York in finance and I consider her to be my "semi-daughter".
ReplyDeleteAnyway, she'd been with us for 6, maybe 7 months and one day she asked me "Is root beer, beer?". We laughed a bit at the missed-in-translation idea that root beer is a soft drink, and does not contain alcohol.
She then asked "What is this 'Dr. Pepper' that I see everywhere, and what does it taste like?"
azlibertarian
YUMMY!!!
ReplyDeleteServed at the car on a tray that hung off the window. Rare treat but I haven't forgotten even though it was 60 plus years ago.
ReplyDeleteStopping at A&E was a serious treat, and a vanilla rootbeer float was mandatory. There was a drive thru A&W near our house, dad would order a huge bag of cheeseburgers and another of fries, for every one, the floats came in huge wax paper cups with lids and large straws and long spoons. Serious good eating. Totally awesome. Seems like another world now.
ReplyDeleteThis place back in the day was Money--we have one left here in Southern Nevada
ReplyDeleteBack in the day, NO SOFT SERVE ICE CREAM. Two scoops of real ice cream. The cold root beer froze the outside of the ice cream into a shell. After eating half the ice cream, we mixed it into the root beer and drank the mixture. Real root beer. Real vanilla vanilla ice cream. Not the junk they have today.
ReplyDeletejust made my wife drool ! she loves root beer floats.
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