Root beer Floats

Root beer and ice cream

Summer treat, a root beer float

My siblings and I share special memories of root beer floats.  We rarely had soft drinks, which we called “pop,” when we were growing up.  But on those especially hot, humid Minnesota summer days, my mother would treat us to root beer floats.  We’d always drink them from clear glasses (real glass, not plastic).  And we always drank them outside on the “island,” a plot of grass encircled by our driveway.  I’m sure this was an outside activity because the root beer had a tendency to fizz up and spill over the tops of the glasses as it was poured over the vanilla ice cream.  I still love root beer floats!