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National Root Beer Float Day 2025
Cool down your 🌞 Summer 🔥 Hump 🐫 Day with a classic dessert beverage. Today is National Root Beer Float Day, and you don’t have to twist my arm at all.
Frosty Mug
So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer. ~Corra May Harris
As Kelly loves to say, beer… root beer.
I like floats of all kinds, but I think a root beer float is the absolute best of all possible floats.
There’s something magical about the combination of the sweet, spicy root beer with a scoop or two of creamy vanilla ice cream.
I remember Laverne & Shirley drinking milk & Pepsi, a classic combo, but root beer and vanilla ice cream are still better.
It’s a marvelous sweet treat at any time of year.
The chilled root beer with a cool few scoops of ice cream making a thick head of foam is a splendidly chilly 🌞 Summer 🔥 treat.
Even so, it’s the sumptuous spice of the root beer and creamy comfort of the vanilla ice cream that makes it an even better treat for my 🍂favorite of all seasons🍂!
All About The Float
The History Behind The Root Beer Float
Ah, yes, that season approaches with joyous alacrity and I’m totally here for it.
Either way, now or later, I am more than happy to consume root beer floats whenever I may.
I’m also looking forward to a return to cocoa season and Pumpkin 🎃 Spice goodies.
What Exactly Is Root Beer? And Why Is It Called “Beer”?
Either way, I’ve been a busy little bee 🐝 for quite some time and I’m not only looking forward to 🍂Autumnal🍂 and Christmastime goodies, but also to some serious R&R. 🍯
Sure, I have my weekends, holidays and the occasional random reprieve, but I’m on a hard churn cycle at this time.
It’s fine. As long as I’m able to see the back of it in a few more months, we’ll all be in good shape.
If not, there’s still my No Monday Policy that takes effect in October.
God willing, I’ll be a full time writer eventually and I won’t have to worry about taking time off.
Writing is restorative to me, so it doesn’t feel like work.
DS9 Garak drinks root beer (The Way of the Warrior)
Dessert In A Glass
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible. ~A. Alfred Taubman
Ohhhhh, marketing is not my forte.
Some people are good at it, but I’m not one of them.
Positioning is certainly a big part of it.
It’s easier to sell ice to someone in a warmer climate than to someone who can get it for free right outside their door.
Also, books have their seasons. Unless you hit some kind of evergreen zeitgeist the way that Harry Potter or Game of Thrones has, you’ll need to find your ideal audience and serve them quality stories in order to keep them buying.
Of course, there’s always merch. If your story is merch-worthy, you’ve opened another form of revenue from your efforts.
Action figures of the Sentinels? Certainly a possibility.
Sentinels jerseys like those worn by Claudia and Tanda? I’d love to see those walking around a Comic Con for real.
Foxfire Blaze bars? This is where you seek partnerships with people who have their own specialties to help supply your fanservice.
Even the books themselves, paperback, hardcover, large text, library bound editions, audiobooks, graphic novels, box sets?
The possibilities are endless, but I’ve got to finish the series first…
That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for some rice pudding…