Every place I’ve ever been that has a soda dispenser where you extract your own soda has an option for root beer. (I suppose you could call it The Root Beer Option.) The consistent thing about it is that it ALWAYS comes out insanely foamy. You have to wait a minute or so for the foam to die down before you can finish pouring your cup. It doesn’t matter which brand of root beer it is – Barq’s, Ramblin’, A&W, whatever – it ALWAYS foams up like no other soda does. I don’t know why this is, but over the course of my lifetime as a root beer aficionado, I’ve come to accept it as just being part of the nature of Rootbeerdom.
Well, guess what – at our snack bar, the root beer comes out without this foaminess. I have no clue why this is, but I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know. I would like to think we don’t carry some non-standard root beer, but I have to admit I feel kind of dirty giving someone a root beer that doesn’t have the Excessive Foaminess.
