IBC is quite nice, as root beers go. Although they are the ones who finally convinced me that there is such a thing as too sweet, and its name is cream soda.
I'm a big fan of the IBC root beer, and their's is the only cream soda I actually like. It also makes tremendous ice cream floats.
Usually DX is right about everything, but I just don't like Barq's. It doesn't have the creamy goodness of an IBC or Abita. Plus, I seem to recall hearing that they're caffeinated, and that's just wrong.
I said nothing about Barqs. As noted above, I prefer IBC. I don't drink a lot of Barqs because, as you've heard, it is caffeinated.
I do remember one character in Steinbeck's Cannery Row, or possibly Sweet Thursday, attempting to make a beer milkshake and being appalled with the results, but somehow stout has a whole different vibe.
I've yet to read the books, but the scene appears in the movie version of Cannery Row, one of my all time favorite flicks.
As long as the root beer is Barq's. The only decent-tasting root beer ever.
I beg to differ. 1919 is Da Bomb. (Does Yum have that, Hec?
Also, how much do I love Root Beer World?
Abita rocks. And it's totally killing me that a few months back Haagen-Dasz had a special edition extra-creamy and dense vanilla bean ice cream that is now impossible to find in the Bay Area. I had one single float with that ice cream and Virgil's special edition (not the stuff you get at Trader Joe's, which is itself quite good, but an even more boutiquey Virgil's that comes with a ceramic cap with a rubber stopper), and it was so good it durn near kilt me.
As long as the root beer is Barq's. The only decent-tasting root beer ever.
Is there no Stewart's in your world?
Not merely the bottle, mind you, but the stand.
Sighhhhh
Dear Duke University,
Kick this fucker out of school, NOW.
Sincerely,
Humanity
Juliana, thank you for that Root Beer World link--it has Root Beer Tapper, one of my all-time favorite arcade games!
marks post to find link when I go home...
Root beer floats are among the best things ever invented.
I just wanted to repeat the rightness of DX.
Kick this fucker out of school, NOW.
I hadn't seen this particular detail of the story yet. Fucking fuckity fuck fuckers.
Kick this fucker out of school, NOW.
What a disgusting little piece of shit. Doesn't this worm have a mother, sisters, grandmothers, any women in his life at all? How could anyone attain the age of majority and be able to talk about half the human race with such joking, violent contempt? I feel incredibly naive, but I literally can't conceive of the kind of mind that could make jokes like that. And that's even before I think about the actual assaults.
