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Alyallen · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:55 am Post subject: Daejeon COSTCO and Root Beer?

I've never been to that Costco and was thinking of buying root beer to make root beer floats for my English Camp students. Question is...Do they sell root beer at Costco?

Thanks,
Alyallen

peppermint · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:05 am Post subject:

Doubt it. Every Korean I know who's tried root beer hates it, says it tastes like cold medicine. Why not just do coke floats instead?

Alyallen · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:09 am Post subject:

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

Root Beer!

Alyallen, why did you have to bring that up? I have't drank that stuff in over 4 years and almost forgot about it. Laughing

Well my mom still sends me red and black licorace in the mail, and she also brought me ketchup and dill pickle potato chips when she came to visit a few months age; so I guess it's not that bad.

But root beer! Root beer floats!

Alyallen · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:28 am Post subject:

genezorm · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: Mokpo

root beer is the bomb

lsrupert · Joined: 27 Aug 2006

I had a friend in the army buy rootbeer for me so that I could make floats for my students, and they loved it. I let some older students (high school age) try it without ice cream, and all but one loved it. He said it tasted like a candy bar. lol
What the kids didn't like was applesauce. I made it for them, and for the most part, they didn't like it. They didn't like how it looked, but when they tried it, some liked it. Oh well, more for me and the other teachers. The Korean adults liked it!
Oh, another funny one was stuffing. We had an American Thanksgiving dinner, and I made some stuffing from scratch. When I took it in, they asked if it was dog food. Once they tasted it though, they absolutely loved it. If I remember correctly, there wasn't one bit left!

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

Dr. Pepper is a decent substitute.

Alyallen · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:03 am Post subject:

SeoulShakin · Joined: 05 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

I went to Hong Kong with one of my Korean friends and her brother. I found some A&W root beer there, and they both HATED it. They also hated my salt and vinegar lays stax. Oh well, more for me!

Coke floats are a much safer bet, and it's much more readily available than root beer is. I've only seen dr. pepper in cans... that's a lot of cans to buy! I think coke is the best option for school anyway.

butlerian · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Location: Korea

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

HapKi · Joined: 10 Dec 2004 Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

Alyallen · Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:43 am Post subject: