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    Quote Originally Posted by Ser Clegane

    The strange way you can get addicted to an actually horrible beverage like rootbeer
    Rootbeer is the key to U.S. power.

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    Ice Hockey,movies and Jack Daniels.
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    The BoSox.
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    Cinncinati Bengals...and the people, there always so nice to us englishmen, dunno why, we used to be their tyrants
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    Quote Originally Posted by Goofball
    The BoSox.
    Hating the Yankees nationwide is also a pretty swell thing we do.


    Except for those idiots from the Bronx who can't even name the last short stop who played before Jeter.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Proletariat
    Hating the Yankees nationwide is also a pretty swell thing we do.


    Except for those idiots from the Bronx who can't even name the last short stop who played before Jeter.


    What? The Yankees are the greatest baseball team since the dodgers left Brooklyn! HOW DARE YOU!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pindar
    Rootbeer is the key to U.S. power.
    The scary thing is - after I overcame my initial disgust I really started to like this stuff - no visit to the US without having an obligatory can of rootbeer.

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    Family Guy
    The Simpsons
    The Internet
    Computers
    My American family members
    Good American food
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    Have you ever been to an A&W Rootbeer fastfood place? They have some good rootbeer, but they are few and far between and the food isn't so good. I'd recommend Crackerbarrell for a frosted mug of rootbeer and some better food than A&W. They are pretty common too, there's always one at major exits on the highway. Now have you ever tried birchbeer? I think its a New England thing.
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    The porn industry.

    How sensitive to cold they all seem to be ("how cold is -25C?").

    How they just don't understand that Bob 'n Doug MacKenzie were not an honest representation of Canadian culture.

    Florida Death Metal.

    Side note: Is A&W really an American chain? I have an inkling it was started in Canada, for some reason...

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    Quote Originally Posted by NeonGod

    Side note: Is A&W really an American chain? I have an inkling it was started in Canada, for some reason...
    From the A&W website:
    One hot day in June of 1919, in Lodi, California, an entrepreneur named Roy Allen mixed up a batch of creamy root beer and sold the first frosty mug of this delightful beverage for one nickel. Now, seventy years later, A&W Root Beer is the world's number one selling root beer and is still made fresh daily and sold at hundreds of A&W Restaurants.
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    Fair enough, but Canada keeps Harvey's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skomatth
    Have you ever been to an A&W Rootbeer fastfood place?
    I have not tried that one yet - but I will keep it in mind for the next time I visit the US and need my "rootbeer-fix"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ser Clegane
    I have not tried that one yet - but I will keep it in mind for the next time I visit the US and need my "rootbeer-fix"
    Try dumping some icecream into that rootbeer. Oh yeah!
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    On topic: outer politics , maybe , because they are good at strengthening their country ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nelson
    Try dumping some icecream into that rootbeer. Oh yeah!
    Ah, the mighty Root Beer Float. A&W serves those too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ser Clegane
    I have not tried that one yet - but I will keep it in mind for the next time I visit the US and need my "rootbeer-fix"
    Damn A&W is good. They don't have those in Germany?
    I'm screwed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaiser of Arabia
    Damn A&W is good. They don't have those in Germany?
    I'm screwed.
    At least I have not seen it yet...

    BTW, of course I expect you to eat the local food if you come here

    But you will also find lots of Italian food in all price categories

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ser Clegane
    The scary thing is - after I overcame my initial disgust I really started to like this stuff - no visit to the US without having an obligatory can of rootbeer.
    A sound policy.

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    thanks I forgot about:
    root beer and guns
    Two of my favourite things.

    I just spend Sunday shooting lots of guns in the middle of nowhere.

    No Rootbeer though :(

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    Nasa
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    -The blue plate lunch special at a good southern grocery store or gas station for $4.00
    -Family Guy, South Park, The Venture Brothers
    -Sweet tea and lemonade
    -Severe late afternoon thunderstorms
    -NCAA Basketball
    -Fried catfish on Fridays
    -Cheap books
    -Lots of attractive and smart female international graduate students

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    All the pointless political parties (the Scorched Earth Party,,, nuff said)

    Why do you hate Freedom?
    The US is marching backward to the values of Michael Stivic.

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