I respectfully disagree. I’d rather have one of these than an actual root beer.
this post was submitted on 30 May 2024
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Them fightin' words. Root beer is the best coke.
Root beer is the best coke.
What in the deep south is this
Lol some of us like root beer
I was objecting to calling root beer coke lol
If it's fizzy, it's coke around here, you must be one of those soda or pop people I've heard about
What, you don't like your liquorice drink?
sassafras
There's a concept called "learned food aversion", which is just a fancy way of saying when people eat something and get sick shortly afterwards, people tend to avoid that food in the future. It makes sense from a survival perspective. If our ancestors ate a berry that was poisonous, they'd stop eating that berry.
This can suck as well though. If you eat your favorite food and then get sick from something else, then you can naturally start to not like your favorite food any more.
As a result, when patients are about to start chemotherapy, doctors might give them something like root beer flavored candy. That way, cancer patients will associate being sick with root beer candy rather than whatever they had for lunch that day.
Aww, that's kind of sweet. Good looking out, docs.
You can dip it in the ashtray for extra flavor.
It tastes like grandpa!
He said the ashtray, not grandpa's urn...
Grandma uses the same jar for both..
I don't know if I've had this brand but I did always enjoy a root beer tootsie pop
Edit: wait a second, I'm misremembering. However I distinctly recall the chocolatey flavour of those pops seperately from the memory of the root beer ones. Maybe I did have the ones pictured in OP. Or maybe they changed the available flavours?
Guess someone remembers Kojak
Do you remember how Telly Savalas held and puffed on his cigarette as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the 007 film from 1969, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"? The man made choices, man.
I wonder if the lollipop was because Telly was trying to quit?
that is in fact the official lore on the lollipop, Sevalas was trying to quit the cigar habit.
Or Gintama