floats
i have always liked root beer floats. i haven't had very many in the past 20 years. there are two problems. first is corn syrup. it's not too hard to find ice cream made from real sugar. haagen daas and breyers are available in most grocery stores. root beer made from sugar is a lot harder to find. the last drink of the stuff i had i made myself. the second problem is the sugar rush. i guess when i was young i could just absorb a massive sugar spike. now it really makes me feel kinda yicky. and one must worry about how many times one can do such a horrible thing to one's pancreas before it melts. my family has a history of diabetes on both sides. wee. so anywho, this impending diet got me thinking. i could make sugar free root beer. i don't mean sugar free in the sense that it has artificial sweetener. i mean sugar free in the sense that there's no sugar at all. it's just carbonated water and root beer flavor. then make a sugar free root beer float with real ice cream. definitely something i'll have to try before the diet starts.