• @idiomaddict
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    414 hours ago

    Root beer used to be commonly mildly alcoholic (.5-1%). We made traditional root beer in my AP bio class in high school, and weren’t allowed to drink it because of the alcohol

    • @over_clox
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      414 hours ago

      Damn, how they gonna have you make a consumable product in class and not even allow you to taste it?

      • @idiomaddict
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        412 hours ago

        The teacher was pretty cool, so I feel like she would have let us try it, but I’ve never met a science teacher who doesn’t have a viscerally negative reaction to the idea of eating something made in a lab. Honestly, the alcohol was probably an excuse

        • @over_clox
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          212 hours ago

          Fair enough, teacher basically covering her own ass. Still, it couldn’t be any more alcohol than a sip of cough syrup just to taste it…