AUG 6, 26.. ROOT BEER FLOAT.. FRIENDS OF BILL..
A nice NATIONAL TODAY Holiday..
National Root Beer Float Day 2026 falls on Thursday, August 6th.
A few “Tid Bits”..
1876 – the year when root beer was invented.
16 – the number of roots and herbs that root beer is made of.
3% – the percentage that root beer makes up in America’s soft drink market.
1960 – the year when a key ingredient of root beer, the sassafras root, was banned by the FDA.
Root Beer producers stopped using sassafras in commercial root beer because studies in the 1950s and 1960s showed that safrole—the main natural oil in sassafras—caused liver damage and cancer in lab rats. This led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban safrole in mass-produced foods and drinks in 1960.
#1 – the ranking of A&W as the leading root beer brand in America.
Unlike some NATIONAL TODAY Holidays, there is not a whole lot on their website.
https://nationaltoday.com/national-root-beer-float-day/
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Friends of Bill..
We published a short Post over on our other website about how we two met on this day in 1992. If you are interested, please click onto the below link.
https://aaphotoshere.blogspot.com/2026/08/aug-6-26-how-we-two-met.html
There you have it.