Venerable and uniquely delicious UK spin on ginger/root beer/sarsaparilla!
This historic UK stuff (google it for history) is both unique and fantastic (and though carbonated is not "soda", if you please -- it's a "botanical brew!"). You either relish the "bitter herbs meet cola meet ginger ale meet root beer" flavor or you don't, but I do and greatly regret it's discontinuance at the local fine foods market. It may be like Chef Rick Bayless's Frontera "two chiles" salsa -- far the best item in their product line, but not the best selling (apparently ConAgra dropped it when Bayless sold out).  You owe it to yourself to try this marvelous, no-holds-barred concoction at least once!! Also, *do* read a library copy of Euell Gibbons' scarce hippy-era classic, "Stalking The Wild Asparagus", for foraging/prep data on both burdock (a.k.a. Japanese "gobo", a common US "weed") *and* dandelion  -- plus chicory root, for good measure!....
Rating: 5 stars