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JackDanielsU | 22:32 Thu 24th Nov 2005 | Food & Drink
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Did they used to have this in McDonalds in the UK, or was it just wishful thinking.


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Not wishful thinking, they definitely did sell it here.
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Probably wasn't popular enough here to continue selling it. I remember thinking it tasted ok, but was a bit like mouthwash! Don't know if there's a Sainsbury's near you (as in the previous post) but you can buy it online here:


http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/

At Disneys Magic Kingdom went on the Century Carousel ride (or something like that) where they said that root beer was just sarsparilla with a new name. Walt can't be wrong can he?
Sainsbury's (boooooooo!!!) have just changed the recipe to include phenylalanine a sweetening chemical that I will not touch. I managed to find a couple of bottle of the old stuff on the shelf, but I'm all out of root beer now, I found some really nice stuff, imported from the US, I think it was called Hansen's but just the once, never saw it again, good value too 24 330ml cans for �8. If anyone knows wher I can get more please let me know, cheers.

Yes they did. The supermarket versions are poor. There is a website some were offering imported drinks incl rootbeer.



The Selfridges foodhall has A&W.

I can remember drinking this at McD's many, many years ago - it must have been on a visit to London in the late 70s/early 80s. It was vile; and it must have been very vile indeed for me to remember this so vividly after so many years.


And no, this is not sarsaparilla "by any other name".
Sarsaparilla: good (if it's the real thing). Root beer: bad.

I remember Mcdonalds root beer. Loved, it, tasted vaguely like Germaline.
I mean tasted like the smell of Germaline, which of course I have never eaten.
You can buy rootbeer in cases from costco for about �4 for 24 cans. Can't remember the manufacturer, but it was organic and sugar free. And about twenty cans went in the bin. Yuk.

I have seen "real" alcohol for sale in McDonalds abroad.


Beer and Wine in Belgium and France for example.


could you explain what that chemical is please NEWDAZZLER and why you won't eat it?
The common denominator between rootbeer and germolene is Winterfresh (a herb i presume-like mint). In the states you can get really nice winterfresh chewing gum that makes your breath smell of germolene. The uk version is nothing like as strong - winterfresh must be an american thing!

Crisgal; look at this site


http://www.sweetpoison.com/phenylalanine.html


Aspartame is a sweetener used in a lot of drinks these days. My daughter who is asthmatic tends to have problems with this sweetener as do I; it makes me feel sick and gives me a headache very quickly.



Isn't that the stuff that tastes like Germolene?

I remember them them doing it years ago.


There is a fast food place in Glasgow that is half KFC and half A&W I think its a burger place, they sell it in big frosted pint glasses and its excellent. Don't know if they have one down your way though but its worth a try.

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