Today, May 16th is a pretty important date in soft drink history! For it was May, 16, 1866, Root Beer was invented by Charles Elmer Hires.

Root beer is probably my favorite soft drink. I remember being a little boy, so many years ago, and ordering a beer, and laughing saying it was a root beer. Root beer was always good for burping. But no one can burp like Cameron Diaz

 

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