Who remembers these as a kid?
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BuddytheReow
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They always seemed like a good idea and tasted great, but always made too many bubbles when I put the ice cream in and it overflowed. Every. Single. Time
Mentaltossflycoon
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I'm with you on the turkey and cranberry. No hate, just neither improved the other to me. Best one at a time. I'd say fruit and meat isn't my jam but al pastor is definitely my jam.
Mentaltossflycoon
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I remember these from like 2 weeks ago.
GizzWizzKing
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Add a frosty mug and a crazy straw to turn that party up to eleven!
spi
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put the ice cream in first
Betty Wont
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With Mr Pibb.
drgonzo1969
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Gimme some of them tiny corn dogs with the "cheese"sauce" to go with them root beer floats and 8 year old me is in heaven.
jhaneyzz
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You, sir, are demented...
jhaneyzz
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That's half the fun!!!
derevaun
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Same here--first time I saw a full-on A&W restaurant I thought it was a sick joke. Coke floats are nice, but there isn't plain vanilla ice cream around except for apple pie season.
Is this what you had before or after instead of a Cigarette???
Alan W
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I grew up in New Orleans, where Barq's was the local Root Beer. We had all sorts of floats, purple cows, the works.
But there was always something special about stopping at an A&W, on a road trip, as a kid, with my parents. Pretty sure there was curb service, where generally cute teens are the servers. Everything was slushier, and a good bit sweeter. Mix that in with the exotic sense of "road trip" and I remember them with great fondness. In my shop, in San Francisco, there would usually be one or two uncomfortably hot weeks in the shop. We'd have an afternoon break, very often (by popular demand) root beer floats.
But there was always something special about stopping at an A&W, on a road trip, as a kid, with my parents. Pretty sure there was curb service, where generally cute teens are the servers. Everything was slushier, and a good bit sweeter. Mix that in with the exotic sense of "road trip" and I remember them with great fondness. In my shop, in San Francisco, there would usually be one or two uncomfortably hot weeks in the shop. We'd have an afternoon break, very often (by popular demand) root beer floats.
vigilante398
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I still have root beer floats regularly. I have a bottomless sweet tooth so I consume loads of soda already, makes sense to throw some ice cream in there. Also my wife grew up in a place where root beer floats don't exist, so they're still kind of a novelty to her. It's been a couple weeks for us though, I should probably grab some root beer and vanilla ice cream after work tomorrow.
Feral Feline
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BROWN COW!
Coke = Black Cow
Grape = Purple Cow
etc...
Hadn't had that for decades but recently introduced my niece and nephew to them.
