• Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5 hours

    Help, this is getting out of hand!

    I’m surrounded by glasses filled to the brim with MUG Root Beer!

    I keep porn myself more glasses, but I don’t drink em. Can’t stand the shitty taste.

    Now my porn addiction keeps em coming, I can’t stop it!

    Soon, I will be crushed under the weight of all this MUG Root Beer and will die a horrible death.

    I need to get out … … although porn one more couldn’t hurt …

  • FrChazzz@lemmus.orgEnglish
    9 hours

    Where my birches at?

    By this I mean supporters of the superior beverage known as Birch Beer.

  • melfie@lemmy.zip
    18 hours

    Kind of ruins it for me that sassafras was banned in the 1960s for its carcinogenic properties and now all root beer is made from artificial sassafras. I stick with ginger beer myself.

      • melfie@lemmy.zip
        16 hours

        I usually get Fever-Tree ginger beer, which lists ginger root in the ingredients with no artificial flavorings. That being said, I wouldn’t put it past any company to lie about ingredients after learning about, for example, studies showing products claiming to have avacado oil actually contain other types oils.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16 hours

      it was? huh. i used to brew my own root beer (like ten years ago, not in the 60s) and i probably still have a bag of sassafras bark laying around somewhere.

    • brian@programming.dev
      14 hours

      interestingly only the bark and its oil are banned. you can still buy the leaves as gumbo file since they don’t have the oil in them. they don’t taste like root beer though

    • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
      17 hours

      IBC in the original glass bottles with the non twist caps were my jam before the turn off the century. Only one deli in the area sold it and we could pretend it was a beer.

      I’m sure if I tried it today it would be mid at best, but probably better than Barqs or MUG.

    • pebbles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17 hours

      Barq’s is easily the best. IBC is the worst it is just sugar water with barely any flavor.

      • ceenote@lemmy.world
        15 hours

        Frankly, MUG, IBC, and Barq’s are all just a blur of unflavorful to me. Barq’s just hides it behind a shitload of carbonation.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      14 hours

      I assume you prefer syrupy root beer to crisp carbonated root beer, because my list is basically the opposite.

      • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        9 hours

        Trader Joe’s, Nixie organic, Waterloo, Polar, not necessarily in that order. Nixie is probably my favorite, especially the organic lime ginger one.

        LaCroix can go fuck off. Not a fan of Spindrift either. I like Spindrift’s tastes, but they are ass with the carbonation. Carbonation is my #1 reason I drink pop, kombucha, or sparkling water.

        • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
          8 hours

          I love carbonated drinks,but the bitterness is usually overpowering for me. I cannot stomach most of the brands.

  • ZeroCool@piefed.caEnglish
    1 day

    I’m more of an IBC Root beer kinda guy, but to each their own.