Root beer.

Known for being tasty.

Famous for being American, Canadian, maybe Mexican.

Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why root beer is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there, folks.

Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone. I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden, Katie.

Yes.

What is your relationship to or opinion of root beer?

I like it, but I never see no roots in there.

Yes, I like it, and I had never truly questioned the root name or anything or known what it's flavored after or anything.

So it was exciting to find out.

Yeah.

It was good.

I think I've become more of a root beer snob as an adult. Like I don't go for the fountain, just sort of fountain mug root beer anymore. It's got to be more artisanal.

Yeah. I'm also not a big rope beer float person. So I actually don't have it a lot anymore. But as a kid, I had it more. Yeah. No, same. Love ice cream. Love root beer. Keep them separate.

And I also, like, in reading about this, as I understand it, root beer is considered gross by like most countries outside of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. So, yeah. I'm really excited to tell folks outside of those three countries about this.

What's going on? I've been through this with both cream soda and root beer with Italians.

They don't understand it. I'm like, but you like Coke. And they're like, yeah, but that's

Coke. It's like, but that's, why wouldn't you like root beer then? Rupeer and Coke are similar, but Coke is worse.

Okay. I'm glad you have experience with this. And I also think cream soda is gross, but I think I'm weird.

Yeah. Yeah. It's like too what it is.

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