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Favorite Food Origins You Never Knew & Why The Internet Creates So Much Outrage In People

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The History of Root Beer

root beer is a generic term for a drink made with lots of different flavorings, usually some sort of a root. It was super popular in the United States for a long time until Sassafras was outlawed. The main chemical in Sassafras, which is saffral, apparently caused cancer in laboratory rats and it was banned. And the other interesting thing about root beer is that it's pretty much only found in the US.

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