WORST root beer of all time

[Archae]

I know, copycat, but I used to treasure A & W root beer.
We used to buy it in gallon jugs from the A & W restaurants.

Nowadays it's nearly as bad as store-brand root beer. Blech.

[bicentennial_baby]

1. I *loved* the A&W restaurant!

We'd go when I was a kid, they did car-side service! :bounce:

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. A&W used to be restaurants?

[mike_c]

4. yep....

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Hmm that almost looked familiar. Maybe I saw one when I was a little girl

[hippywife]

5. Yep.

With coneys, burgers, carhops, etc.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. coneys?

[hippywife]

9. Chili dog? n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. Really? That's a new one on me. :^)

[hippywife]

13. Which one?

Coney or chili dog? Or both?

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Coney as a name for a chili dog?

[hippywife]

16. I grew up in Ohio

and that's what they were always called as far as I knew for the longest time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island_hot_dog

Called that down here in OK, as well as chili dog at some places.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. I've always lived in rural Maine, so I don't know a lot of the other regional names for

things, let alone the fact that A&Ws had restaurants. (Although I swear that seems familiar to me. Unless I am mixing them up with Bonanza.)

[hippywife]

20. Only Bonanza I've heard of

was a steakhouse like Ponderosa, neither very good. Is/was there a place up there with carhops called Bonanza?

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. It was a steakhouse place. No carhops that I can recall. The only carhop place I know of around here

is Fast Eddie's. But then I have never seen it, just heard of it in passing. So it might not even be a carhop place after all.

[hippywife]

22. Well we're at least talking about

the same chain then. And we both like Barq's. ;)

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. LOL True

[Highway61]

23. Your not wrong

A & W did have restaurants...there used to be one in South Portland....
BTW...have you ever been to "Fat Boys" drive-in on Old Bath Rd in Brunswick?....talk about going back in time. Food is great and they have a "sock hop" every summer.

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. Aha! then there is a chance I either saw one or stopped at one on my way out of state as

a munchkin.

I have not been to FatBoys. It sounds wicked cool but Bangor is my nearest large town and I don't think we have one of those kinds of things up here. (Well, Ellsworth is equidistant and certainly growing by leaps and bounds, but it's still no Bangor.)

[hippywife]

3. MUG.

The worst I've tasted so far.

[SPKrazy]

8. I know what you mean

A & W rocked when you could go to the drive in and get it in a frosty mug :9

and their burgers and fries, :9

much better than anything I can think of now

:shrug:

[Taverner]

11. A&W wen't downhill when they switched from cane sugar to HFCS

In fact, most soda did...

[THUNDER HANDS]

12. Barques is pretty bad

I think that's how you spell it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Now see, I kinda like that one

[hippywife]

17. It's spelled Barq's and I actually think

it's one of the better ones.

[derby378]

19. You mean there's a such thing as BAD root beer?

I pretty much like them all. A&W right out of the tap, Barq's, Mug, XXX, etc.

If you get a chance to drink XXX Root Beer, you really must. It's Dr. Pepper's own brand of root beer, but for the longest time they've only sold it in select restaurants because of competition on the grocery store shelves. I love XXX Root Beer.

[Highway61]

24. Forget root beer...Ya haven't lived

Until you've had Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer...yum

[GenDem]

27. Fanta

God awful root beer!



Best root beer is home-made right down the road from me at a place called Tom Wahls. They serve it up in a frosty mug.