And maybe not quite as much but around Pittsburgh as well. 
Now head north-east to the Endless Mountains and its all Birch Beer.
This. It beats root beer floats all to hell.
Is it a regional drink?
He could have meant Pittsburg, Kansas.
I think the formulas may be different. In Thailand, we did not care for the canned A&W, but the stuff in the A&W shops tasted completely different, much better.
Two goes and still you failed to render “every day” correctly. No sarsaparilla OR root beer for you. :mad:
That’s where I was going but I guess I should have gotten the state name, at the least, into play. :smack:
Could have been Pittsburg, California.
I’ve never had root beer, but maybe that should be next on my list of things my daughter should see what it tastes like ;). Ginger beer I’ve had (as often as possible) Ginger’s a root, right?
Is root beer liquorice-like? I thought the Sarsaparilla had a rather liquorice taste, but my two liquorice-loving family members swear not. The ingredients list gives me no clue here, since it’s all carbonated water, sugar, and E-numbers
Maybe you could use it like Coke to remove rust stains at the bottom of the dunny.
Apart from that, I’ve got nothin’. It’s not fit for human consumption, and god knows how it ever got invented into a soft-drink.
Damn it, i knew that looked wrong. So much for trusting in spell-check.
Maybe spell-check in based in Kansas or California?
I think that is one of Donald Sobol’s Two Minute Mysteries. I remember the story too.
Sarsaparilla is very popular in Taiwan. Here’s a commercial: hey soong sarsaparilla - Bing video
What’s a dunny??
I was about to offer that Sarsparilla is relatively popular in Australia before noting where you were located. :smack: Curious to know which brand you bought?
As to other uses? Why, Drink it up! I love a nice Sarsparilla, my personal favourite is the Bundaberg brand. I miss it, along with many other foods from home. 
If you didn’t like Sars, don’t bother trying Root Beer, they are similar enough that whatever you found offensive in the Sars, you will similarly dislike in root beer.
The place to take a slash, the toilet. 
AHA!
At least two and possibly all three of the Mandarin teachers at my kids’ primary school are Taiwanese. End of term present …
Anybody ever pronounce it as spelled, sar-sap-a-rilla? I did, once.
Yes. When I lived in New Zealand I found that ginger beer was much more popular than it is in the US. Of course in the US ginger ale is very popular, but I think the taste isn’t as strong as typical ginger beer.
I was going to say that I don’t find anything in common with liquorice, but I see that the Wiki page on root beer includes it as one potential ingredient. But I don’t think that most of the ingredients the list are typically found in root beer.
Root beer was originally made from sassafras root. However, I see that Barq’s, one of the more famous brands of root beer, was originally flavored with sarsaparilla rather than sassafras.
I have occasionally had birch beer, flavored with birch bark, which also tastes very much like root beer.
Ginger beer and Root beer taste nothing at all alike.
Some root beers and some sarsaparilla and even some birch beer do taste alike. Quite sweet, with yes, a little licorice.
Birch Beer, like Sarsaparilla, seems to me to be a Pennsylvania thing, at least in the northeast. I can get Birch Beer in central PA, but not much further east than that. Root Beer, on the other hand, is available everywhere.
Any reason for that, aside from local taste, and the ambition of retailers to satisfy that?
I get birch beer all the time here in NJ. I think I have some in the house right now.