For my ninth birthday party, my parents let my friends and me set up a four-square court in the dining room (we used masking tape to mark off the squares). They also honored my request that instead of cake, we have large root beer floats, served in tall glasses with lots of vanilla bean ice cream for dessert. To this day, I have a very soft spot in my heart for the root beer float. I am something of a purist, believing that only the best root beer and hard scooped ice cream should be used (none of that soft serve stuff for this particular concoction). This is why I am feeling very wary of the new flavor of soda that A&W has recently released. They call it "a creamy blend of rich A&W and ice cream flavor" and claim that is replicates the taste of a root beer float without the work or hassle of the traditional version.
I think I prefer my root beer float to come with a bit of work and hassle and don't really think that this all-in-one version would satisfy my occasional float craving. What do you think? Would this tempt you?
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1-14-2008 @ 10:45AM
slashfood_com said...
My wife tried some yesterday. Neither of us liked it much. It tasted like extra-sweet, fairly flat root beer.
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1-14-2008 @ 10:50AM
Blu-Sam said...
Don't take that bottle. Stick with old-way, it's still great.
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1-14-2008 @ 11:32AM
Lindsey said...
My favorite part of a root beer float is when the ice cream and root beer are so cold that the root beer kind of freezes and forms a crust. Mmmmmmm. I don't think you could duplicate that with the bottled stuff!
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1-14-2008 @ 11:36AM
Nicki said...
If you ask me, it's just not the same if you can't find bits of undissolved/unmelted ice cream floating in your glass! :P
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1-14-2008 @ 1:08PM
Allison said...
I'm immediately suspicious of any thing labeled as "flavor," especially ice cream flavor! What yummy chemical do you think they use to create that? Stick with the real stuff.
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1-14-2008 @ 1:43PM
Adriane said...
The best part of an ice cream float [to me] is not even really the taste-- it's that creamy texture you get combined with the crunchy melded frozen bits. mmm
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1-14-2008 @ 3:19PM
Bernie B said...
Doesn't appeal to me, although I do love the old fashioned label.
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1-14-2008 @ 3:58PM
Fash said...
Gross.
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1-14-2008 @ 4:12PM
Jason said...
My wife and I split a bottle a few days ago. She liked it, saying it tasted like a float with flat root-beer (yes, she prefers it flat) and melted ice cream. I thought it was disgusting, and tasted nothing like a yummy root-beer float. Stick to the real thing.
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1-14-2008 @ 6:12PM
Janis said...
This sounds just awful:(
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1-14-2008 @ 8:59PM
Claire Walter said...
Reminds me of that peanut butter and jelly product pre-combined in one container.
Claire @ http://culinary-colorado.blogspot.com
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1-15-2008 @ 2:22PM
john said...
This is just as bad as the beer bloody marys, that is coming out.
John
to me its like,in the supermarkets, you can now buy
sliced,diced,carrots, celery, etc, etc
the worst i think is the sliced mushrooms, i mean how laze can we be, wouldnt you rather wipe your own mushrooms, to clean them and then slice the way you like them. come on
John
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1-22-2008 @ 7:55PM
Shatner Shoes said...
I tried one at a local store. Didn't care too much for them. Tasted sort of mediciny. The Sunkist one is much better. What is up with the website? WWW.FOLATS.COM?
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1-25-2008 @ 3:11AM
Melissa Iris said...
I would love to try this!
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1-28-2008 @ 6:37PM
Dennis Hall said...
Saw A&W Root Beer Float today for the first time. Saw the price and put it back where I got it. For $3.00 a bottle you can keep it!!!!!!!
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2-09-2008 @ 6:24PM
Jennifer Brown said...
Don't waste your money!!!! These are disgusting. I had to choke down the rest of my bottle, so I didn't have to pour the money down the drain! At $7.99 for a four pack, the four of us that each had one, hated them.
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2-18-2008 @ 3:26PM
Nancy Farkas said...
Good si it is not just me! I loved the sunkist one. That one tasted like I was drinking an actual float. But the Root Beer one? It was nasty. It had an odd taste to it. I thought at first that maybe I had eaten something that made it taste funny. So I tried it again at another time without eating something first. It was still nasty! How can the orange taste better then that? I usually hate orange flavored soda but this one was really good. The Root Beer one? Not so much. But since I paid so much for a 4 pack I too feel I have to drink them. I hate to pour money down the drain!
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2-21-2008 @ 4:21PM
Rick said...
Unfortunately, the idea sounds far better than the end result. This stuff may be the most hideous-tasting concoction of all time. I agree with one reader, it tastes like sickeningly sweet flat root beer. I also think they are way off on the mareketing hook. People who really want a float aren't going to mind going to a little effort to make the real thing. A root beer float is proabably the last thing on people's minds when they're on the run. Trust me, take the time.
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2-21-2008 @ 5:59PM
Rick said...
How did something this terrible ever make it past the consumer test group? Obviously, they must have had some positive feedback before reconfiguring the assembly line, produce the bottles, labels, marketing campaign, etc.
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3-23-2008 @ 12:44PM
PJ said...
Disgusting, it really sucks a lot. I actually tried to call the number on the bottle for comments cause I couldn't stand more than one sip.
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