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Postby golf » 2009.01.21 (01:23)

Me and my girlfriend have been disagreeing on this for quite a while. She insists that you're supposed to let the ice cream melt in with the root beer and drink it all together, and the spoon is there to facilitate that. I say that they give you a spoon so that you can eat the ice cream as you drink the root beer, instead of waiting for it to mix all together.

How do you consume a root beer float, and what do you think is the best way to do so?
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Postby PALEMOON » 2009.01.21 (01:31)

i'd have to side with your girlfriend on this one. i stir it around a ton.

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Postby ToeFaceKiller » 2009.01.21 (01:44)

I'm with PALEMOON and your girlfriend on this one, golfkid. Dear god that sounds so good right now.
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Postby Izzy » 2009.01.21 (01:48)

I prefer Coca-Cola floats.
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Postby LittleViking » 2009.01.21 (01:56)

A root beer float contains three unique foodparts. The ice cream at the top, mostly unaffected by the root beer below. The root beer at the bottom, blissfully unaware of its creamy invader. And the mixture around the surface of the root beer where ice cream and soda have become one, a texture thick enough to scoop up with your spoon yet viscous enough to drink through the straw. It's not root beer with ice cream on the side, and it's not a milkshake. It's served the way it is for a deliciously deliberate reason.
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Postby sheganican » 2009.01.21 (02:17)

well hold on now, a root beer float is meant to have 3-4 big scoops of vanilla ice cream in a tall glass with root beer poured in to fill in all the extra space. this gives the ice cream a unique, almost crunchy texture (you'd have to try it yourself). I'm with golf kid. stirring fuses the two tastes together completely, and while they're supposed to be eaten together, they should have their own significant shapes and textures that compliment each-other. Obviously.


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Postby TribulatioN » 2009.01.21 (02:23)

I take a spoonful of root beer, and spread it on the ice cream, then eat up the parts that get covered. Repeat till ice cream is almost done. Then stir it in. So looks like I'm in between.
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Postby otters » 2009.01.21 (02:32)

I eat the ice cream and drink whatever root beer ends up in my spoon.
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Postby wumbla » 2009.01.21 (03:09)

I agree with golfkid (you should have made a poll)
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Postby smartalco » 2009.01.21 (20:54)

I mostly agree with suki, however

I normally let it melt just a little, then eat quite a bit of the ice cream, leaving a few gumball sized chunks that you randomly eat when you drink the root beer, making it, 103% delicious
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Postby a happy song » 2009.01.21 (21:18)

LittleViking wrote:A root beer float contains three unique foodparts. The ice cream at the top, mostly unaffected by the root beer below. The root beer at the bottom, blissfully unaware of its creamy invader. And the mixture around the surface of the root beer where ice cream and soda have become one, a texture thick enough to scoop up with your spoon yet viscous enough to drink through the straw. It's not root beer with ice cream on the side, and it's not a milkshake. It's served the way it is for a deliciously deliberate reason.
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Postby MattKestrel » 2009.01.21 (21:53)

Izzy wrote:I prefer Coca-Cola floats.
I prefer iced coffee floats, but I always use the spoon to eat the ice cream with. Birds-of-a-feather.
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Postby Rose » 2009.01.22 (00:00)

I'm siding with golfkid. I don't stir them together. You really should have made a poll.
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Postby ninja143 » 2009.08.20 (18:40)

Well then dont go to wendy's they /mix/ them together :-P
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Postby SlappyMcGee » 2009.08.20 (19:47)

ninja143 wrote:Well then dont go to wendy's they /mix/ them together :-P
Twat. Check post dates.
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Postby otters~1 » 2009.08.20 (20:36)

Golfkid was right, for the record. Good use of "Twat."
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Postby ninja143 » 2009.08.21 (15:14)

SlappyMcGee wrote: Twat. Check post dates.
Im not going to stupe to your level, even though I want to call you a jerk, /I/ am going to be nice about it. and say im sorry but you didnt have to read/open it. so kindly deal with it and get off my back, please.
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Postby Ampersand » 2009.08.21 (17:38)

ninja143 wrote:
SlappyMcGee wrote: Twat. Check post dates.
Im not going to stupe to your level, even though I want to call you a jerk, /I/ am going to be nice about it. and say im sorry but you didnt have to read/open it. so kindly deal with it and get off my back, please.
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Postby Yoshimo » 2009.08.21 (21:20)

I usually pour the rootbeer over some scoops of icecream, drink the rootbeer after a /small/ bit of stirring, then eat the remaining, mushy, delicious icecream left at the bottom.
I generally try to keep the icecream in tact, though, instead of mixing in to the root beer.
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Postby yungerkid » 2009.08.22 (01:15)

I eat them entirely separately. Entirely. I like root beer. And ice cream is ok.

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Postby scythe » 2009.08.22 (01:41)

Ampersand wrote:
ninja143 wrote:
SlappyMcGee wrote: Twat. Check post dates.
Im not going to stupe to your level, even though I want to call you a jerk, /I/ am going to be nice about it. and say im sorry but you didnt have to read/open it. so kindly deal with it and get off my back, please.
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Postby Sondrigal » 2009.08.23 (00:08)

I think the root beer makes the ice cream taste better, but the ice cream makes the root beer worse. I would eat the ice cream with the spoon.


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