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Rat Bastard

Root Beer

      "Tastes like a son of a bitch"  (far left bottle)

"It's us against them"  (middle)

"Makes you feel like something you're not"  (near left)

"spread your lips and ingest"

Skeleteens/Eat Me Foods, Los Angeles, California

("Left in the bottle for Skeleteens/Eat Me Foods at a factory somewhere in Los Angeles...  we don't have a phone or even a pager anymore.")

        Certainly among the most fun of root beer slogans, there are a number of different Rat Bastard bon mots to choose among; we have found at least three.  Unfortunately, their attitude towards the world ("It's us against them") may have lapsed over into their root beer making.

Review

        Faint nose.  Grassy initial taste, grassy middle.  I'm trying, but I can't get much more than grassy (roots growing upward?).  Not very sweet, even, just grassy.  Wintergreen aftertaste.  Small bubbles.

Luke's Numbers (7/4/03)

Ingredients:   "All this stuff made it through the hole..."  Carbonated water, fuctose [sic], natural and art. flavors, citric acid, molasses, jasmine, dong quai, caffeine, ginseng, mad dog weed, skull cap, yohimbe, gingko biloba, gotu kola, golden seal, echinacea, African capsicum, reishi, shiitaki and cordyceps, caramel color, sodium benzoate.

Acquired:  Beverages and More, San Francisco.

Available:  Beverages and More, also online.  Presumably in stores in the Los Angeles area, too.

Links:

        Skeleteens homepage.  On the bottle, it instructs, "Ask your real dad how to find our site."

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