sarsaparilla

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Anyone remember sarsaparilla pop.used to have it delivered by corona great on a hot summers day with one of those small blocks of ice cream dropped in. funny how the older you get the more you crave things from your childhood.

[Trickyvee]

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No but my mum has often mentioned it from when she was young. What did it taste like?

[sweep]

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Sort of like a stronger version of root beer and definitely a love or hate thing.Barr also made it and was often sold in chip shops well into the 80s. i suspect it was more of a northern thing.

[HG]

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OOh yuck! I had forgotten all about it, thanks for remminding me (not hehe), that was awful stuff!

[stuckinthe80's]

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I loved it! You can still get the hard boiled sweet version in some shops.

[Trickyvee]

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mmm well I like root beer so I probably would like it

[n3llyo]

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as a kid used to go to a market in east street (S.E. london) on a sunday morning there was a man who would walk around with a barrow and sell baldwins sarsaparilla cordial in bottles or sell it by the cup either hot or cold there was nothing nicer then a cup of hot `sasparilla whilst walking around the market in the rain.
still get bottles of it now funny enough sarsaparilla and root beer are the only things i know i can keep in my fridge without my kids nicking `em as they insist they both taste like cough syrup or mouthwash

[junnja]

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I always thought the canned stuff 'SASS' tasted like bubblegum. Loved it!!

[Richard1978]

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I had a bottle of Mawson's Saparilla recently, slightly odd taste but nice once I got used to it.