LoyalTubist wrote:I think you can buy some root beer extract. Hire's used to produce it. I think McCormick Seasonings puts it out now. That would be worth trying. (And I could get it sent here.)
Not the real stuff--lots of substitute flavoring, sadly.
There are some real sassafras root beers around though--just not distributed out here.
At any rate, if you're interested in brewing your own:
A few years ago my daughter got me one of those cookbooks to tell you how to make things you normally have to buy. One of the items in it was Coca-Cola. It didn't call for Kola Nuts. Instead, it called for 12 No-Doz tablets!
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MartyNeilan wrote:Not exactly chili dogs, but this place is the place in NJ. Frank O knows what I am talking about.
Deep fried hotdogs in urban New Jersey (go figure!) with the best homemade relish ever, and onion rings - really just strips and pieces - the size of a yorkbrunner. My grandparents used to bring me there since I was a toddler, and it was one of the top destinations for all the local high school students.
I took my southern wife up there once and she loved it, she always asks when we are going back.
FWIW, I did the Skyline thing one time and was less than impressed.
HOLY CRAP! RIPPERS!!!!!!!!!!
I remember them from the high school days (pre-vegetarian)
they were pretty nasty (you can prob.figure out why they are called rippers) http://www.fart-sounds.net/
but then again, at 3am anything will do (esp. because that was my before my non-drinking days too!)
