Root Beer v Dandelion&Burdock (Taking Sides if you will)

I have never knowingly seen a burdock growing in its wild state.

I don't think I've ever had root b33r.

I'm American and grew up on sarsaparilla, birch beer and root beer. There's nothing better than Root beer and pizza or onion rings. However, my Scottish friend can't even be in the same room with me when I drink the stuff as it makes her nauseous to even smell it! She claims that it smells like mouth wash or a trip to the dentist: has something to do with the clove smell. We have nothing similar in America in dentistry, so I assume it's something U.K.

Also, I wonder if Americans have a broader ability to eat strange foods than U.K. citizens. She swore I'd never like Irn Bru, which I took to immediately and which we import by the case. Also, she won't eat mushy peas, haggis or bean and toast, which I adore.

Regarding butter and buttercups, I grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota where we had plenty of buttercups in the pasture, but we always used dandelions under the chin to determine if we liked butter. No rubbing was involved.

How on Earth is root beer revolting or disgusting? Root beer is delicious and great for pouring over good vanilla ice cream as a tasty dessert-y treat! Root beer is fantastic along with a good burger and onion rings. Root beer is great for refreshment on a hot summer day. Hurrah for root beer!

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also what everyone else sensible said about buttercups

D&B = Refreshing chip accompaniment of the gods

(incidentally there are only three soft drinks you can have with fish and chips and they are: D&B, Vimto and Irn Bru)

Where I'm from, we did the Liking Butter Test with both dandelions and buttercups. Dandelions also gave us ammo for a game where you flick the heads off at others.

dandelions are a diuretic - so i suppose if you drink too much dandelion tea you MIGHT wet the bed if you're too lazy to get out of it.
ON THE OTHER HAND - drinking that there dandelion and burdock that you buy in the shops nowadays won't do NUFFINK - because there isn't any dandelion OR any burdock in it.

boring (or perhaps not boring, depeding on your perspective) fact of the day: dandelion and burdock are both traditional herbal remedies, which work well if used in conjunction with one another - hence the derivation of the drink.

personally, though, i have to say i prefer VIMTO.

Root beer with white rum tastes *exactly* like the pink mouthwash that you get given to rinse your mouth out by every dentist in Britain.

another reason that root beer is classic is that once when i was very small my family went to the root beer stand, one of those drive-in places with girls on roller skates as your waitress. and i saw a monkey there! dressed like an organ grinder. my parents tried to explain that he was just visiting, but for many years that was my favorite restaurant because it was the place with root beer *and* monkeys.

actually, i prefer mcdonald's HiC orange drink to root beer. mmmmm. tastes like youth sports leagues.

I have never tried Dandelion and Burdock. Don't think there's really any way of getting that product Stateside... hm. Ok, having just perused the list of available beverages from our local British store (there are a lot of those throughout the U.S.) and they don't have it. I will have to check out this one specialty market locally to see if they carry it and if they don't, I'll just have to wait until I can visit the UK again to try it out.