Root, Root, Root For The Home Team
Okay so you like remember when I told you about the ice cream that came with root beer swirled in?
Well I was at the grocery store stacking the doughnuts (it’s kind of a long story, but basically there were doughnuts and I… well, it gets boring after that) and as I was leaving I saw these bottles in the little fridges at the end of the checkout lanes and apparently they also sell A&W root beer that comes with melty ice cream swirled in it. That’s right. You can now walk into a store and buy a premixed root beer float in either solid or liquid form.
Of course, an actual root beer float isn’t solid or liquid. It’s kind of a mixture of both. I bet the reason A&W is making root beer-laced ice cream and ice cream-laced root beer is that they’ve got two different teams working on a true prepackaged root beer float and they’re like approaching the problem from different angles. I bet the next thing we see is some kind of root beer float paste or colloidal gel or something. That’s still pretty far from the goal, but can you imagine the possibilities? In the future we may actually be brushing our teeth with root beer floats squeezed out of a tube. And that’s to say nothing of the benefits to our nation’s astronauts, who have been stuck up in space for decades with nothing but those wafers of dehydrated neopolitan from the museum gift shop.
Personally, I’m holding out for some kind of aerosol spray. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have time sit around and eat root beer floats all day.
How about it, A&W scientists?
~Ariella Rasputin Wallflower
September 9th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Oooohh, like when you squeeze toothpaste and there’s different but separate colors, like white and blue? They could package rootbeer in one part of the tube, and ice cream in another, and when you squeeze it out is when they’d mix up…Oh the possibilities!
September 9th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
@Kittae:
I’m sorry but that suggestion is patently absurd. If Science could have given us ice cream in a toothpaste tube, they would have done so during the Cold War as a means of demoralizing the Communists.
Obviously, the breakthrough is going to be combining the Root Beer & the Icecream into a stable suspension that can stay unrefrigerated for an indefinite period.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:13 am
OOOK!!!
All of the above, please! The more root beer floaty-type things there are, the better. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
October 27th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Rootbeer floats are teh awesomesauce.
But, well, how about other floatish consumables? There must be other things that, when mixed with icecream and carbonation approach wonderdom.
Yes, they called me mad…mad!
…and upon extensive/expensive experimentation…
Ice cream and cream soda, not too shabby, but gets a little blah.
Ice cream and tonic water…ehhh, worth trying?
Ice cream and Dr Pepper…maybe with chocolate ice cream?
Ice cream and cherry coke…with black cherry icecream. Worthy.
Ice cream and beer (in this case, brought to you by Yuengling-America’s oldest brewery!)…the sweet creaminess of the icecream melds compellingly with the sharp-bitter hops flavour, into a feast for the discerning alchoholic who’s also got a weight problem, plus–it’ll get ya drunk!
Cheers.
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