What is the flavor of root beer?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
A lot of people like root beer! But it’s kind of hard to describe, right? It’s really got a unique taste. We asked Ashley Rose-Young, a historian from the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History, to help explain exactly what the flavor of root beer is, and share a little of the history behind this yummy drink.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:03.4 | Answering those questions that make you go. |
| 0:08.3 | Uh, um, um, um, um, um. |
| 0:11.8 | Um, um, um, um, moment of um comes to you from APM studios. I'm Anna Weggle. |
| 0:26.0 | Um. |
| 0:28.0 | Hey, welcome to the soda shop you. What can I get you? |
| 0:35.0 | Ooh, good question. I want something refreshing. |
| 0:39.0 | Hmm. And sort of bubbly. |
| 0:41.0 | Hmm. But not too bubbly. |
| 0:44.0 | I see, I see. |
| 0:45.2 | Well, how's about a good old-fashioned root beer? |
| 0:47.4 | Would you believe I've never had rip beer before? |
| 0:50.3 | Huh. |
| 0:51.3 | How could you not? |
| 0:52.3 | I just don't even know what it tastes like. |
| 0:54.0 | Well it tastes like the first pitch-thorneer at your favorite team's ball game. |
| 0:57.0 | Right as the sun is highest in the sky and the breeze is as warm as bathwater. |
| 1:01.0 | Hmm, I'm not really a sports fan. |
| 1:04.0 | Okay, okay, well then it tastes like the last dance at the sock-hop and Jimmy finally |
| 1:08.8 | asked you to dance after stealing glances you're away all night and at long last the anticipation is over as you |
| 1:14.8 | shake your saddle shoes to the rock and beat. I mean I'm really more of a solo dancer. |
| 1:20.3 | A solo dancer I see well what about kicking your shoes off and walking through the grass on the first warm day of spring? |
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