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root beer
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Princeton's WordNet
root beernoun
carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs
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root beernoun
A beverage, most often a carbonated soft drink made from a combination of vanilla, cherry tree bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark, nutmeg, anise, and molasses among other things.
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Root beer
Root beer is a sweet North American soft drink traditionally made using the root bark of the sassafras tree Sassafras albidum or the vine of Smilax ornata (known as sarsaparilla, also used to make a soft drink, sarsaparilla) as the primary flavor. Root beer is typically but not exclusively non-alcoholic, caffeine-free, sweet, and carbonated. Like cola, it usually has a thick and foamy head. A well-known use is to add vanilla ice cream to make a root beer float. Since safrole, a key component of sassafras, was banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1960 due to its carcinogenicity, most commercial root beers have been flavored using artificial sassafras flavoring, but a few (e.g. Hansen's) use a safrole-free sassafras extract.Major root beer producers include PepsiCo, Coca-Cola Company, Dad's, Keurig Dr. Pepper, and A&W.
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root beer
Root beer is a sweet carbonated beverage, traditionally made using the root of the sassafras tree and/or sarsaparilla vine, but now often made with artificial flavors. It is primarily consumed in North America and is usually brown in color, non-alcoholic, and can be used to make a root beer float when combined with vanilla ice cream. However, some variations of root beer can be alcoholic, depending on the brewing process.
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Root beer
Root beer is a carbonated, sweetened beverage, originally made using the root of a sassafras plant as the primary flavor. Root beer, popularized in North America, comes in two forms: alcoholic and soft drink. The historical root beer was analogous to small beer in that the process provided a drink with a very low alcohol content. Although roots are used as the source of many soft drinks throughout the world, often different names are used.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of root beer in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of root beer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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We have one of the last orange roofs left, we have a lot of people ask for the root beer floats. ... People love the fried haddock and clams, like it used to be.
I would venture to say everyone I know who drinks alcohol has had [hard root beer]by this point, as far as the popularity goes, it’s pretty simple: It tastes pretty good. It tastes like root beer, only with alcohol that you can’t really taste anyway.
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