Taiwanese root beer float?

[Andrew0409]

I tried the Sars and Xiao Mei ice cream float myself. It’s not good this way. I like both by itself but not together. And I like root beer floats from the US.

[SuiGeneris]

Costco sells A&W Root Beer 24 cans @ 17nt each

[fanglangzhe]

@fumarole

There is a reason they do not taste the same - sarsaparilla and root beer are different drinks

Interesting, I also thought before they were the same which I now know is wrong. They do taste similar to me though. Haven’t had a hey song sarsaparilla since the 1980s.

Sarsaparilla Vs. Root Beer

[Taiwanguy]

@BHL4life

then i tried a can of root beer at a taco place here and i found out root beer is just hei song sarsaparilla.

This is just not true. Root Beer and Sarsparilla aren’t even close to tasting the same. There is a vanilla-y sweetness to root beer that sarsparilla just doesn’t have.

[Andrew0409]

Sarsaparilla taste like Dr Pepper with more bite and without the cherry flavor.

[DrewC]

@Andrew0409

Sarsaparilla taste like Dr Pepper that a bird has shat in.

FIFY

[Andrew0409]

I like sarsaparilla. I also like root beer. Nothing wrong with either.

[BHL4life]

For me as someone with no bias it tasted like a less interesting hei song assparilla. Ginger beer beats both of them!

[Taiwanguy]

@BHL4life

For me as someone with no bias it tasted like a less interesting hei song assparilla. Ginger beer is beats both of them!

Um… Okay. I wholeheartedly disagree. Hey Song is fine, but it just isn’t root beer. They’re completely different to me.

Did you have an American-made root beer? or did you have one of the “root beers” that are made in Taiwan? Because the Taiwan ones taste like sarsparilla to me. I don’t think they are true root beers.

[Taiwanguy]

@Andrew0409

I like sarsaparilla. I also like root beer. Nothing wrong with either.

I like both, too. I prefer root beer, but sarsparilla is fine. They aren’t at all the same though… and every “root beer” that I have seen that’s produced in Taiwan is actually sarsparilla. There are no true root beers made in Taiwan.

[Andrew0409]

@Taiwanguy

I like both, too. I prefer root beer, but sarsparilla is fine. They aren’t at all the same though… and every “root beer” that I have seen that’s produced in Taiwan is actually sarsparilla. There are no true root beers made in Taiwan

You’re exactly right. If you consider them the same, you’re bound to get disappointed. I also prefer root beer if I had to choose.

[lostinasia]

Something I think we’ve forgotten: root beer can be quite varied! A few times in North America I’ve had traditional styles, and they doesn’t taste much like A&W or Dad’s anyway. The Taiwanese Hei Song stuff doesn’t taste the same as A&W to me, but both of them are quite different from what people apparently thought of as root beer a century back.

I dunno, maybe Hey Song : A&W = Taiwan Beer : Carlsburg. But I’ve also had “craft beer” equivalents of root beer that were, if not necessarily better, a lot more interesting and made A&W taste kind of pointless. (A&W is still really good for floats!)

[Andrew0409]

Yeah, I’ve had some root beer that i thought was gross.