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Mexray
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It depends on the time of day...
Breakfast, Pacifico over Corn flakes...
Lunch, Pacifico con Tacos al pastor...
Lunch, 1/2 hour later, Pacifico - Ballena, right out of the ice chest.
Dinner, Pacifico con Limon - oh yes, and a nice juicy Tri-Tip roasted all day in the slow-cooking smoker...
Bedtime, cookies and warm Pacifico - YUK! Maybe just a shot of Tequila will do!
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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roundtuit
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Johnny Red wiith a twist Mulege Carne Asada on the sid
Almost Baja
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rpleger
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Root Beer float, spun up in a blender.
Richard on the Hill
*ABROAD*, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to
be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
-- Ambrose Bierce, _The Enlarged Devil\'s Dictionary_
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Diver
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You guy's are killing me !!!
I haven't had a beer, shot, soda, milk, ice cream, float or any of the deliciousiosities you have mentioned in over a year.
Damn ***#*#*###* acid reflux !!!
Gatorade and Tumms make a really silly party drink !
And old guys always look stupid with Maalox mustaches !
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jrbaja
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Diver
maybe if you stopped reading these message boards your stomach wouldn't be so nervous.
Let's see, messing with the masses or root beer float. (more on that later!) Root Beer Float!!
Now, a root beer float cannot be blended! It needs to be in a frosted mug with scoops of vanilla. Then, the root beer is poured slowly over the
ice cream and where the root beer forms a crystal on the ice cream, this is what you are lookin for. The absolute best reason for one of these
delicacies.
Apologies to those unable to participate but with enough description, you may just be able to taste it!
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Diver
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Jr, I asked the doctor about that but he said that leaving my wife wouldn't help either !
And although I hate to start any controversy;
Personally, I think filling an icy mug about half way with icy cold root beer and then ever so gently, dropping in a few large scoops of ice cream
helps maintain the highest level of inate carbonation therefore increasing the percieved level of flavor and allowing for a greater volume of audible
after-float floculation. I may not be able to drink them, but I have a great memory !
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jrbaja
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Gad sakes
I think you are spot on with the technique!
But, (that other guy) you know, the one who  blends is hopefully paying attention!
Truly sorry about your limitations! Thank goodness gracious for the memories!!!!
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Diver
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You're the one that likes polls......
Blended or stirred ?
Personally, I think blending a root beer float would be worse than blending the tequila floater into a rocks Marguarita. I (used to) prefer to stir my
own at my own speed !
You've probably heard of the Guinness beer float ?
A few years back we brewed a porter that had a creamy fine foam you could write your name in. It was amazingly rich from the chocolate and roasted
chilis we added among other things. Imagine a scoop of your favorite coffee, vanilla or chocolate ice cream floating in that mug !
Ah, the memories.......
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pokey
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Pacifico with clamato juice, limes and tabasco sauce 
Keep Mexico weird
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bajajudy
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Pokey
Finally finished those nasty MGD, eh?
Pacifico, nada mas fina.
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PacO
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Beck's
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pokey
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| Quote: | | Finally finished those nasty MGD, eh? |
Yep there done I've been so lazy this week that I haven't got off my a$$
to hit an ATM. Smart and Final takes Visa so I was getting beer there. Thus the MGD. After cleaning the truck I found something like a hundred
pesos in change scattered on the floor, in the glove box, tucked in the seat etc etc. Grabbed my new found loot walked down the street to the
nearest Pacifico store bought some ballenas and headed back home.
40 oz's to FREEDOM!! (to quote bajaddict's oh so quotable phrase)
Keep Mexico weird
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Eli
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Yerba buena, yerba buena, camomille, es todo, ni modo. It is tasty and soothing though, so I shant complain.
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Ken Bondy
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jr we have a serious disagreement here
at my age I may be the first North American on the board to have tasted a root beer float. At the old corner drug store soda fountain where I
discovered and popularized them, about 60 years ago, they would first moosh a small amount of vanilla ice cream down in the bottom of one of those
long tall soda glasses. Then they would fill the glass to within a few inches of the top with root beer. Then they would plop in two scoops of
vanilla ice cream, and squirt in about a half-inch of carbonated water to foam everything up. Any other method of making root beer floats is, well,
making something else.
++Ken++
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Diver
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Uh oh, more controversy coming !
I see that I must finally blow my cover.
I am a former employee of Mayberry's Ice Cream Parlour and have worn one of those red and white straw hats, along with the apron, white shirt and
candy striped vest (we're talking mid '60's here Ken). I have served many a "kitchen sink" (16 scoops of your choice of ice cream and 10, 1 oz
toppings; "If you can eat it, you can have it !"
Yes, you could say that I am/was a professional soda JERK.
As such, I can attest to Ken's method for the old fashioned float or flavored soda water.
I do, however, re-confirm my personal/professional preference for the method I stated earlier.
Feel free to u2 me for any other specific ice cream questions.
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Ken Bondy
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Failure to disclose
Diver's post made me realize that, in stating my disagreement with jr about root beer floats, I failed to disclose that I too have professional
experience. My opinion does not just come from speculation, I know what of I speak. Between my 2nd and 3rd year of high school (summer of 56) I
worked the night shift at the Carnation Fountain Restaurant at the corner of Laurel Canyon and Victory in North Hollywood, CA. As such, I was also a
professional soda jerk. As a professional I made hundreds, perhaps thousands of root beer floats. And chocolate sodas, milk shakes, malts, sundaes,
banana splits, and other ice cream delicacies. Don't mess with me about products from soda fountains. I know the specs for root beer floats, dammit.
I also worked the grill, anybody want to challenge me about frying protocol? Just trying to keep the contentious nature of the board going in the
best way I can.
Regards to all,
++Ken++
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Diver
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Ok, ok....don't get excited old man !
I know when I've been trumped; my butt was just out of diapers in '56 !
You guys probably made your own ice cream with real milk from real cows back then !
Your apparent failure to disclose, apparently also includes a younger Ken the diver photo. Or does the water make gray hair look darker ?
I'm a former PADI divemaster/instructor from Florida. I've been in your kelp beds a few times and deep snorkeled baja a few times but I mostly dove
the southeast Florida coast, the north/central Florida caves and the Carribean; how about you ?
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Ken Bondy
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Diver, the hair is considerably whiter now, but actually that picture was not taken that long ago. I took that picture of myself in about 60fsw in
Grand Turk (on scuba) after a humpback whale trip in the Silver Banks about ten years ago. I have deteriorated considerably since then. I was born
in 1940 so it's the ugly 65 now. OTOH, the big social security checks are about to start rolling in so it's not all bad. Please take a look at my
photos at http://www.kenbondy.com, I think the best times in my life have been underwater.
++Ken++
PS forgot to say that I am impressed with your credentials. Would be fun to dive with you someday. I still get out on the CA boats a few times a
month.
[Edited on 7-4-2005 by Ken Bondy]
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jrbaja
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Alright alright
Sounds as if we have a couple "real" jerks here. And let me specify "soda"before one of the coop groupers take it personally.
Now, the real question is, where does one find a soda fountain between Rosarito and San Bartolo? We have a new 50's diner here in Rosarito but, my
canned A&W and Thrifty vanilla makes a better root beer float!
It's good to see that some of us have a taste for one of the finer things in life ! I used to look forward to the trips home from Havasu because I
knew I would be nursing a float from the A&W in Parker across the desert.
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bajajudy
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A&W....carhops on roller skates with root beer floats on their trays. yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummy
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