August 6 National Root Beer Float Day

[nitrofd]

I tried some of the hard root beer at the pizza place (they didn't have ginger beer, which I wanted to try). I like the non-alcoholic stuff better, but that's just me.

The way I am right now I have two 12 packs of diet A&W Root Beer and one 6 pack of the hard root beer.different items to have with different things.

 

[diane]

My second runner-up for root beer is Mug Old-Fashioned Root Beer - another San Francisco treat! They had the most hilarious ad campaign back in the day - your animal training minute. One favorite: Here is your alligator training minute of the day. Slowly get on your alligator. He may not notice. Give the command, "Giddy-up!" If he does not giddy-up, giddy-off...and pour yourself an ice cold glass of Mug Root Beer...

 

[Legion Para]

Happy National Root Beer Float Day!

 

[nitrofd]

Time to bump the thread as today is August 6th.National Root Beer Float Day.

www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-root-beer-float-day-august-6

 

[EJ Zander]

At the end of the 19th century, Frank Wisner invented the first root beer float. He was gazing out his window at night in Cripple Creek, Colorado and was inspired to float a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of his glass of root beer. It became known as a "black cow".

Today root beer floats are much enjoyed. One of the best can be bought from A and W root beer. So let's celebrate and have a root beer float today. Sounds yummy to me.

Cool, Its also my wife's birthday today. I wont say how old she is except that she is younger then root beer and me.

 

[nitrofd]

Being that a Root Beer Float and a black cow are the same thing I thought we should bump this thread.

 

[nitrofd]

Root beer float day so it is time to bump.

 

[captaindrew]

One of my favorites, I like a Brown Cow, coffee ice cream and root beer. A ice cream stand by my folks in NH blends the Brown Cow into a coffee root beer shake, it's the first place I stop before I even get to my folks.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

I never had the pleasure of a root beer float, but I do like ice cream and root beer, so I'm sure combined they would be delicious!

Many years ago the one here was turned into a Chinese restaurant and there's no more close. Another I miss from when I was young is Arctic Circle. Their chicken wearing a cowboy hat just got to me! Good food, especially their fish and special sauce. I think theirs was the Original! Maybe I'm just old but it does seem that the fast food back then was tastier and prepared with more care. I got one hamburger just the other day from Burger King where they'd put the meat part of the bun in one side of the container and the lettuce and tomato part of the bun in the other side and slammed it shut! What a mess...

I wholeheartedly agree! The last time I went to McDonalds I ordered the Big Mac meal, the whole sandwich was such a sloppy mess that like your Burger King sandwich was clearly just slapped together in a very haphazard manner with not a care in the world. My fries were limp and greasy. Really does put one off of enjoying fast food. I will say Wendy's is now my favorite as the patties are not invisible, the chili is tasty as well as hearty and who doesn't love a Frosty?

 

[diane]

Has anybody watched The Founder? Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc. Anyway, Ray Kroc wanted cheap but nice - how to get people to eat a fifteen cent hamburger? So he set high standards for cleanliness, professionalism, was a strong believer in no matter what your job is you do it the best you can. He had a limited menu, medium quality ingredients and an excellent smiling staff who put your burger meal together rather than slapped it together! His dime and a half burger was much better than his successors' sawbuck and a half slop-the-hogs...meal? It was a microcosm of middle America - Mom would approve of his kitchen, Dad would like the respect and courtesy, the kids liked the burger.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3un5f6qLi_k

 

[Bob171]

First - I have to say that everyday is Root Beer Float day for me

As for the film "The Founder", that one slipped by me. Thanks for the review - I will see if I can find it on Netflix or Amazon. Sound like my kind of movie.

 

[diane]

First - I have to say that everyday is Root Beer Float day for me

As for the film "The Founder", that one slipped by me. Thanks for the review - I will see if I can find it on Netflix or Amazon. Sound like my kind of movie.

Oh, that wasn't a review! I haven't seen it - just wondered if anybody had - the rest was what Ray Kroc figured out would work...and did it ever! That was the day of the fast food restaurant for sure - KFC, Baskin-Robbins...who made a good root beer float back then, by the way. (See what I did there? Got it back on track! )

 

[Bob171]

I did a little research and came upon this little bit of history.

The Great American Root Beer Float was created on a bitter cold night in Deer Honey, Wisconsin on January 16, 1895. As the story goes, Gunther Kanthaben, a simple farmer, was sitting in his log cabin and was about to enjoy a stein of homemade root beer when a prankster (most likely that hooligan kid Clyde Burncycle who lived at a nearby farm) heaved a ball of frozen milk through Gunther's window which plopped with great precision into his beverage. The impact created a frothy concoction which Gunther consumed (being a frugal man who abhorred wasting anything – even a ruined stein of root beer) and the rest is history.

Makepeacenotwar, Steve (May 1957). "History of the Root Beer Float and Other Fizzy Treats". Historical Society of Carbonated Beverages

 

[Legion Para]

 

[nitrofd]

You are a day early.

 

[donna]

These are good any day too.

 

[nitrofd]

These are good any day too.

We need a shout out for all those old A & W roadside stands.

 

[mofederal]

I do like the A &W Rootbeer floats. A &W's are everywhere again. Right now there are more of them in operation than there ever were back in the day. You see them in combo with Long John Silvers. I did like the old stands, and I do miss them. We still have a few Dogs and Suds here and there, and I thought they were gone.

 

[JOHN42768]

Root Beer Rocks

 

[Yankeedave]

I do like the A &W Rootbeer floats. A &W's are everywhere again. Right now there are more of them in operation than there ever were back in the day. You see them in combo with Long John Silvers. I did like the old stands, and I do miss them. We still have a few Dogs and Suds here and there, and I thought they were gone.

There is something good if A and W's are on the rise