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Root Beer Float Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Jul 062026

A little while ago I was shopping at Walmart and saw this in a center display. I had heard about these before on Swagbucks survey I’d taken about a month earlier about branding. This is part of a America 250th birthday flavor series where they have some commemorative “American” flavors to celebrate the big 250. I of course, had to try it. Not only because it’s root beer float flavor, but because I generally love Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Without milk, you can taste a sort of root beer extract flavor that doesn’t really mix well with everything else, but when you add the milk (making the whole float part), it really does have a subtle root beer float flavor mixed in there. I quite enjoy a cinnamony root beer float. So this was actually a treat and I had a bowl every day until it was gone. My kids like it too. It’s definitely worth grabbing a box this July if you haven’t already.

100 Year of A&W

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Dec 152021

Last year my wife gave me this wonderful book for my birthday (I know, I’ve taken forever to write about it). 100 Years of A&W as released in 2019 as a celebration of, 100 years of A&W. At first I thought it would be a history book, but it’s actually more like a museum in a book. There’s not a chronological timeline of events, and they even say they didn’t want that, but there are photos of restaurants, root beer mugs, and advertising through the years, coupled with anecdotes from old employees and fans, which is actually sort of better honestly. It’s more a coffee table book, one you can just open to a random page and see pictures of uniforms throughout the years, or read the short memories of car hops who met the loves of their lives on the job, or see pictures of old menus. It’s a fabulous addition (edition?) to any root beer collection or anyone who just loves A&W root beer and all it stands for in American history. So if you don’t have it yet, I highly recommend getting a copy.

Ass Kickin’ Root Beer BBQ Sauce

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Oct 202021

Ass Kicking Root Beer BBQ Sauce

Back in 2020, before my kitchen got broke and needed to be replaced, I bought this and some other condiments off of Amazon. Then my kitchen got dead and I had to wait some ages while it got fixed (much nicer at least) before I could get a nice rack of ribs and give this a try. Thankfully the best by date is still another 6 months out. Ass Kickin’ was originally a hot sauce, using a teenager type pun (of which I approve) by having an ass, kicking. My kids sure like it cause they love this story called Brighty of the Grand Canyon, it’s about an ass named Brighty, anyways. This is very mild, no heat at all, which is good I guess but kind of off brand. But what do I know. Anyways, we made some ribs and gave this a shot.

By itself this isn’t very good at all. The flavor is acidic with tomato and also really dark and smoky but the flavors aren’t balanced. You can’t really pick out the root beer but I didn’t really expect that since the sweet spices of a brew would mingle and be lost. When cooked on ribs the flavor improves quite a bit and the ribs with it weren’t bad, but there are many more BBQ sauces I’d rather have on my ribs.

So yeah, I’m not really a BBQ sauce expert to describe how it should be, but I know what I like and this isn’t it. I couldn’t imagine dipping anything in this sauce which is one of my favorite things to do with BBQ sauce. I like the consistency of this much more than the Sprecher sauce but the flavor is worse. Maybe it’d be better if it were spicy. I don’t know. Either way, avoid this please.

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