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Why is root beer beer?

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Modern root beer is a soft drink that retains the word "beer" from an earlier time when it was indeed an alcoholic beverage flavored with various roots such as sarsaparilla, ginger, and licorice.

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soft drink traditionally made using the root bark of the sassafras tree Sassafras albidum

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