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The ice cream float was invented by Robert M. Green in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1874 during the Franklin Institute's semicentennial celebration. The traditional story is that, on a particularly hot day, Green ran out of ice for the flavored drinks he was selling and instead used vanilla ice cream from a neighboring vendor, inventing a new drink.
Nothing gets better than a glass of refreshing root beer with a few scoops of creamy vanilla ice cream on a hot summer day. It all began in Colorado back in 1893, when Frank J. Wisner, owner of...
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 called sarsaparilla) as the primary flavor. Root beer is typically, but not exclusively, non-alcoholic, caffeine-free, sweet, and ...
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The world's largest root beer float was created in 1990, when Barq's Root Beer cooperated with a Pick N Save grocery store in Dekalb, Illinois by mixing 1,500 U.S. gallons (5,700 L) of Barq’s root beer with 1,000 U.S. gallons (3,800 L) of vanilla ice cream in an above-ground swimming pool. [11]
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Two flavors were available, A&W Float and Sunkist Float. The purpose of the concept was to mimic the flavor of an ice cream float of a given soda . Thus, the A&W flavor was intended to taste like a root beer float , while the latter is comparable to an orange creamsicle or Sunkist float.