My great-grandmother was a strong prohibitionist, to the point she wouldn't even try root beer because it had the word "beer" in the name. My grandfather (her son, also prohibitionist, but less picky about names of drinks) tricked her into trying root beer by telling her it was sarsaparilla. She loved it!
This was a good video. The audio is good as are the clips used. I liked the joke and the "deep rooted" pun near the beginning. I hope you see success with your channel. I also saw the spam video and that was good as well.
@@FoodHistoryBites I used to really like Hires root beer, but it's disappeared. I've heard the company was bought by Schweppes, Etc., makers of A&W root beer... and discontinued. Do you know if this is true, and if the Hires recipe (or a close counterfeit) might be available for home use?
The FDA "found it carcinogenic" at about the same time they found saccharine and cranberries carcinogenic. It was later determined that "putting rats in a cage, and daily injecting them with 10,000X the average daily intake" of damn near is carcinogenic. So they walked back saccharine and cranberries. However, the main ingredient in sassafras, safrole, is a necessary precursor in the production of MDMA. So sassafras was NOT walked back, so we could use "food safety" as a pretext to keep a drug precursor out of every grocery store.
@@bob_._. Hence why I find the "drug precursor" angle to be far more plausible. They could walk back safrole, as they have for many other substances...but they'd really rather not.
I use sassafras in my homemade root beer, along with sasparilla, cherry bark, and a few other things. I sometimes add a little yeast and naturally carbonate it (yea, alcoholic)
Years ago I bought tea bags of sarsaparilla from a health store. It tasted like nothing. Absolutely devoid of any hint of flavor. Bad, old, wrong component? A while later I found Pappy's Sassafras tea. That definitely has a strong flavor. I've tried various bottles labeled as root beer and sarsaparilla, it seems to be different words for the same general thing. So basically I have no clear idea what sarsapaparilla itself tastes like.
On your map of the US, you didn't show Frostop Root Beer for Ohio? Shame on you! Shame! Shame! Shame! (and what is that Ohio soda you show? I've never seen it and I've lived in several regions of the State.)
Sarsaparilla is so fun to drink!
My great-grandmother was a strong prohibitionist, to the point she wouldn't even try root beer because it had the word "beer" in the name. My grandfather (her son, also prohibitionist, but less picky about names of drinks) tricked her into trying root beer by telling her it was sarsaparilla. She loved it!
This was a good video. The audio is good as are the clips used. I liked the joke and the "deep rooted" pun near the beginning. I hope you see success with your channel. I also saw the spam video and that was good as well.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@FoodHistoryBites I used to really like Hires root beer, but it's disappeared. I've heard the company was bought by Schweppes, Etc., makers of A&W root beer... and discontinued. Do you know if this is true, and if the Hires recipe (or a close counterfeit) might be available for home use?
Have seen a recipe online, try any of the food tv sites, they will usually have something close@@ReggieArford
DID YOU KNOW?: Root beer was originally made with sassafras, but it was removed in 1976 after the U.S. FDA banned it because it was carcinogenic.
The FDA "found it carcinogenic" at about the same time they found saccharine and cranberries carcinogenic. It was later determined that "putting rats in a cage, and daily injecting them with 10,000X the average daily intake" of damn near is carcinogenic. So they walked back saccharine and cranberries.
However, the main ingredient in sassafras, safrole, is a necessary precursor in the production of MDMA. So sassafras was NOT walked back, so we could use "food safety" as a pretext to keep a drug precursor out of every grocery store.
Duh. That's what it said, in this video.
They still use sassafras but remove the safrole. And it MAY be carcinogenic... to lab mice... if they're given insanely huge amounts.
@@bob_._.
Hence why I find the "drug precursor" angle to be far more plausible. They could walk back safrole, as they have for many other substances...but they'd really rather not.
I use sassafras in my homemade root beer, along with sasparilla, cherry bark, and a few other things. I sometimes add a little yeast and naturally carbonate it (yea, alcoholic)
Years ago I bought tea bags of sarsaparilla from a health store. It tasted like nothing. Absolutely devoid of any hint of flavor. Bad, old, wrong component?
A while later I found Pappy's Sassafras tea. That definitely has a strong flavor.
I've tried various bottles labeled as root beer and sarsaparilla, it seems to be different words for the same general thing. So basically I have no clear idea what sarsapaparilla itself tastes like.
On your map of the US, you didn't show Frostop Root Beer for Ohio? Shame on you! Shame! Shame! Shame! (and what is that Ohio soda you show? I've never seen it and I've lived in several regions of the State.)