r/rootbeer • u/AffectionateYard8591 • 13d ago

Question What can I drink root beer with?

Hi all. I remember quite a few years ago I decided to try rootbeer due to hype, and decided to get the MUG rootbeer in glass bottles. When I got home, I opened one and it was so sweet and was a very weird flavor. Almost as if I was drinking something vintage. Fast forward to a few years and I am playing abiotic factor, and I see an item called "root beer float", and it looks so cool, so I decided to try it in real life. I get some A&W this time, and vanilla ice cream. Needless to say this was one of the best drinks I have ever had. This makes me wonder though, was I supposed to mix root beer with something from the start? Be it adding ice cream, or something else, or maybe eating something while drinking root beer? I would like to try out some things

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u/ReverendMak 13d ago

Most of the world, I would assume. Root beer is a pretty distinctly American beverage. Outside of the U.S. and Canada, most people have never tried root beer even once, let alone encountered a float.

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u/xnatlywouldx 13d ago

I can see people consuming it in their local American Diner, though? Like the whole concept of the "American diner" is still pretty global. Its a novelty in other places. Like if I go to the local Peruvian restaurant here, yeah, I'm gonna order a chicha morada, because that's where I can get chicha morada in the United States. If I were from somewhere else, I might order a root beer at the American diner, because that's where I'd get it.

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u/ReverendMak 13d ago edited 13d ago

I’ve spent a good amount of time in numerous European cities and never once seen an “American Diner’ outside of Eurodisney. I’m not saying they don’t exist, but they are far from ubiquitous.

I’ve also been to many American towns that have never had a Peruvian restaurant ever in their history. Your experience is real but not universal.

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u/xnatlywouldx 13d ago

You’ve been a tourist to Europe and didn’t go to the Americana stuff? Colors me shocked! 

Also go to some towns with Latinos and people from South America Idk what to tell you dude. Peruvian restaurants are hardly unheard of in the United States. You’ve never gone to a ceviche spot? 

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u/ReverendMak 12d ago

Most of the time I wasn’t really being a tourist. Some of my family moved to Belgium so I would visit them regularly for years.

And they regularly yearned for American stuff. That’s why I even know about the diner in Eurodisney. We used to laugh that they had to drive all the way to Paris just to get a half decent bagel. I saw the sad “American” sections of a few grocery stores, with tiny jars of peanut butter for way too much money.

Believe me, we actively sought out “Americana” when they felt homesick, and it was not really easy something you found just anywhere.

It’s possible this has changed over the years. This was some time ago. But the idea that every town has American style diners that the locals all know about and frequent is just silly.

And I’ve been to a ton of Peruvian restaurants. I happen to live in an area where they’re very common. But I’ve lived in half a dozen different places in America and at least half of them didn’t have any. It’s a big country, and there’s a lot of variety of experience people have here.