interesting.
Wish I could smell it.
As an aside, a friend just brought me a present from Canada... a packet of Dave's Root Beer Tea...
and if you know your Root Beer History, that is an interesting full circle, at leat in a mobius sortof way.
Well, I don't know what to say.
It wasn't sassafrass, but I thought the flavor was a pretty good approximation.
(On the A~F Scale maybe between C+ and D+)
It is curious... the lable says Sarsaparilla essence, extract or something-
(it is not in front of me now), but what I found interesting is that it said "Made in Vietnam".
I was there a few years back and was delighted to discover a Vietnamese root beer, Xaxsi or Saxsi, well I can't recall the spelling now- I could check if necessary anyway it is pronounced sort of like "SAUCE-She"; its an unusual taste, more like current root beer than sassafras tea, but still unique and quite drinkable!
The Canadian Root Beer Tea might (?) have contained some Sassafras, but not much.
It did taste kind of nice... I suspect the cinnamon was Vietnamese based on looks, taste and oh yea, the "made in..." lable.
There are a lot of wierd things in the tea as well... some very tiny red flowers, dried mik or something like that, etc.
I haven't looked for the site, but i was told it is available on line.
humm that taste might have been crsated... (improved upon) using a Lorran's oil type sassafras flavor and the other additional materials... I don't know.
It is dangerous to speak of flavors long seperated in time!
Why can you not say if the Pappys you bought tasted like sassafras or not?
Is it borderline?
ok, I checked and the tea is called "Root Beer Float Tea"...
Contains:
Cinnamon, black tea, white chocolate, sarsaparilla, safflower petals, natural flavouring*.
Contains milk and soy
you can read a review at
http://sororiteasisters.com/2012/12/08/organic-root-beer-float-from-davids-tea/
The reviewer said it tastes like root beer, but I would point out
I would place it closer to sassafras tea than root beer.
Perhaps it depends upon how thinly you draw the line.
(If you decide to order some, could you let me know?)