/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19005687
Root beer is notorious for using mint and sometimes licorice as an ingredient. Some asians are put off by that because they drown all medications in such flavorings, and are forced to go to school or work unless they're in the hospital, so it just tastes like misery.

>>18870877
The Japanese hatred for modern medicine causing them to miss out on foreign foods as well is damned funny.

>>14047926
But those make terrible ice cream floats, Anon!

It's the one thing Americans love that the rest of the world almost universally hates.
Mostly because they use wintergreen in their medicine and toothpaste.
Give me a good root beer float any day and I'm happy.

>Thinking Masochism Cider is better than Oliet Bangs

I SHIGGY DIGGY

Apparently the wintergreen in root beer is a major ingredient in toothpaste and cold medicine in Asia and Europe.
The only exception is Okinawa, since American troops imported A&W and the natives got used to it.

>>7741719
Foreigners have odd reactions to Murrican Root Beer.
In Japan, it smells like a popular cold remedy, so people don't like it.