Where are all my friends? Come on in and lets get comfy by the fire!

[Hippie Bowman]

Monday again already? Make it awesome!

 

Peace!

[Jameson2001]

Happy Monday!  I'm with Hippie everyone start singing their favorite James Taylor tune to make it a great day.  Thank you JT for sharing your incredible gifts to all of us over the years.  And as a bonus for us in Minnesota today it is way warmer in the Carolina's so happy my mind is going there today😊 

 

[Josephine Carissa]

*waving*

On this lovely Monday morning we may all need some extra caffeine : )

Best Regards,

Josephine

[Madelaine McMasters]

Oh look, a river of root beer!...
 

Happy Monday, Kids!!!

[Dillon Levenque]

Okay, I like root beer as well as the next person (long as the next person's not you) but that's just wrong. You put that river back right now!

[Madelaine McMasters]

20 minutes ago, Dillon Levenque said:

You put that river back right now!

Make me!

Plplplplplplplplplplplplpl!!!

[Clover Jinx]

Thanks kids, I needed this today!

❤️

[LittleMe Jewell]

4 minutes ago, Clover Jinx said:

Thanks kids, I needed this today!

❤️

[Rhonda Huntress]

40 minutes ago, Clover Jinx said:

Thanks kids, I needed this today!

❤️

Group Hug!

[BelindaN]

I've never had root beer and I have no idea what it is...........

[Rolig Loon]

It's like sarsparilla, only rootier.  And not beery. 

[MoiraKathleen]

2 minutes ago, BelindaN said:

I've never had root beer and I have no idea what it is...........

If you're going to have a carbonated non-alcoholic* drink, root beer is the best (much better than the colas).  It's especially good with vanilla ice cream (together in a glass as a root-beer float).  That's my description of it anyway...  Maddy may have a different or better one.

* I think I saw a "hard" root beer in a store last summer - I can't imagine root beer with alcohol in it, but you never know, it could be good 

[Dillon Levenque]

I'd heard (and apparently Wikipedia heard the same source) that root beer was invented by an American druggist. It was (still is, sometimes) made from sassafras or sarsparilla. In the version I heard the motivating factor was to find a substitute for regular alcoholic beer, and thus to reduce the amount of ruckus the local working men caused.

In a way, it's kind of fitting that it's become the beverage of choice for a woman that causes more ruckus than a legion of thirsty coal miners.

[LittleMe Jewell]

6 hours ago, BelindaN said:

I've never had root beer and I have no idea what it is...........

It's nasty stuff - don't let them fool you

[BelindaN]

I won't be trying it anytime soon! I'll stick to wine........😁

[Madelaine McMasters]

What root beer is depends on who brews it. I've had some that was so heavy on the vanilla that it could almost pass for cream soda and some that was so minty you'd think you were swilling Pepto Bismol. At its best, it's sweet but you otherwise can't figure out what's in it.

Remind you of anyone?

...looks for her blowtorch while you all work up your answers.

Happy Tuesday, Kids!!!

Edited December 4, 2018 by Madelaine McMasters

[Madelaine McMasters]

7 hours ago, BelindaN said:

I won't be trying it anytime soon! I'll stick to wine........😁

...pushes you off a cliff.

(I am not a one trick devil.)

[Madelaine McMasters]

11 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

It's nasty stuff - don't let them fool you

...drops a piano on you.

 

[Rolig Loon]

Root beer is best served over vanilla ice cream, as a float.  In a much younger phase of my life, I was a partisan of Dad's root beer, but was converted to A&W when I moved to the midwest in the 70s.  These days, my doctor frowns on such things, so I indulge only on special occasions like the 4th of July, when it's also fair to have a bratwurst with sauerkraut.  It's my meager nod to patriotism.

[Madelaine McMasters]

In a bid to preserve my three working neurons*, I don't drink alcohol. I also live in Wisconsin, which holds the top spot for binge drinking in the US. This contrast has been the source of endless wonderment about me over the years, and that's been additional incentive for my teetotaling in the form of root beer. My oppositional nature shows up everywhere. I'm also fond of taking simple ideas and driving them into the ground.

*A euphemism for my childhood best friend being killed by a drunk driver who ran up on the sidewalk and hit both of us from behind.

Edited December 4, 2018 by Madelaine McMasters

[Love Zhaoying]

17 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

In a bid to preserve my three working neurons*, I don't drink alcohol. I also live in Wisconsin, which holds the top spot for binge drinking in the US. This contrast has been the source of endless wonderment about me over the years, and that's been additional incentive for my teetotaling, in the form of root beer. My oppositional nature shows up everywhere. I'm also fond of taking simple ideas and driving them into the ground.

*A euphemism for my childhood best friend being killed by a drunk driver who ran up on the sidewalk and hit both of us from behind.

Root beer is cool because Snoopy drinks it, too. *Edit* Do you also drink Sarsparilla?

Edited December 4, 2018 by Love Zhaoying

[Madelaine McMasters]

4 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Root beer is cool because Snoopy drinks it, too. *Edit* Do you also drink Sarsparilla?

Yes, Snoopy is another reason to like root beer. Many micro-breweries make brewed sodas like root beer, sarsaparilla and birch beer, and I'm always happy to see what they've conjured up when I visit one. Sarsaparillas are as varied in flavor as root beers and can easily be confused.

I agree with Rolig that A&W root beer is pretty good. I make myself a little pizza every Saturday evening, which I wash down with diet A&W root beer, sometimes in a float.

[Love Zhaoying]

11 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

Yes, Snoopy is another reason to like root beer. Many micro-breweries make brewed sodas like root beer, sarsaparilla and birch beer, and I'm always happy to see what they've conjured up when I visit one. Sarsaparillas are as varied in flavor as root beers and can easily be confused.

I agree with Rolig that A&W root beer is pretty good. I make myself a little pizza every Saturday evening, which I wash down with diet A&W root beer, sometimes in a float.

My favorite as a youth was Sioux City Sasparilla. The can had a cowboy entering a saloon’s swinging doors on one side, and stumbling out drunk on the other side. An excellent image for youthful soda drinkers.

[Rolig Loon]

15 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I make myself a little pizza every Saturday evening, which I wash down with diet A&W root beer,

It seems a shame to drink root beer and then remove 90% of the taste by replacing the carbohydrate with fake sugar.  My doctor might approve of your choice, grudgingly, but if I am going to allow myself a root beer -- especially with ice cream -- I might as well have the whole experience.  Damn the torpedos.  Full speed ahead.

[Jameson2001]

Just now, Rolig Loon said:

Damn the torpedos.  Full speed ahead.

  Happy Tuesday!  Here you go Rolig, the best root beer out there

And, even throwing in a delicious Root Beer Float recipe😊  Love RBF's!