Out of curiosity: trying to find out how well-known root beer is outside North America

[pervognsen@mastodon.social]

@rygorous I've had root beer by accident in the US when a drive-thru got my order wrong and it was fucking disgusting, especially when I wasn't expecting it.

[humus@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pervognsen @rygorous Something like that for me too. Tried it once, didn't like it.

[floooh@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pervognsen @rygorous I know it from a visit to the US in the late 90s, kinda okay-ish IMHO, just a sacrilege to call it 'beer'. Just noticed it last week again in my local 'supermarket' in south-east Germany near the cola and lemonade brands, no idea how much they're actually selling though.

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Humus @pervognsen I mean, to me the association is always "tastes like cough syrup", but as a kid I _liked_ the taste of cough syrup, so...

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@floooh @pervognsen beer is just the "brewed" part.

personally, ginger beer >> root beer >> malzbier though. Malzbier is not _awful_, but I'll pass. Root beer is to me a pretty average kind of soda - not the best, not the worst. Ginger beer is really good

[mk@bsd.network]

@pervognsen @rygorous this is probably why Guybrush could use it to defeat Lechuck.

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mk @pervognsen I don't know man, I mean root beer can kill ghosts, but say Mountain Dew can kill live human beings and needs someone stocking true resurrection to fully bring you back

[akharyto@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rygorous I tried it once when American friends visited us in Sweden and I thought the kids would probably like it

[dominikg@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rygorous @floooh @pervognsen
Do our get Bundaberg ginger beer now in Germany?
I'm used to it because ya Australian, but I've seen it appearing everywhere in Warsaw.

[mk@bsd.network]

@rygorous @pervognsen and honestly, imagine being resuscitated, having to live knowing the fact that you drank MD.

Instant DNR.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rygorous i liked to feed it to visiting foreigners to troll them, but the last time i did my visitor really liked it and then was sad to discover you can't get good root beer in europe, and now it feels too mean for a prank