When life imitates blogging

I wrote the Papergreat post about Frostie Root Beer nine years ago, and it's been a pretty popular post over the years, generating a lot of interesting comments. But, until this past weekend at the Safeway in Florence, Arizona, I had never seen a bottle of Frostie Root Beer in the wild!

Now I can drink some of the ephemera I've written about, which is weird sentence to type. But don't hold your breath waiting for me to start tracking down and eating some of the gelatin mold dishes that have been mentioned in the past.

Meanwhile, around the Twitters...

My earliest memories of going grocery shopping with my mom was looking for Frostie Root Beer. We almost never saw it & drank a lot of Dad’s Root Beer which was good, but it just wasn’t the same. Today, I came across Frostie Root Beer & I had to buy it. Anyone else remember it? pic.twitter.com/o6kPPKNxmu

— ɠιɳα 🌻 (@Never2OldFor1D) February 9, 2021

Soda review: Frostie Root Beer. The 1st flavor is like a cream soda due to the vanilla then the root beer flavor kicks in. Best vanilla root beer & one of the best root beers period. Grade A. #soda #sodareview #rootbeer #frostie #frostierootbeer #frostiesoda pic.twitter.com/cvnPVthnQ2

— Mike Vance (@baggerv03) August 17, 2018

Somehow, it always feels like the right time for a Frostie root beer. How do you like to enjoy a Frostie -- over ice cream, over ice or right out of a glass bottle? #Frostie #RootBeer pic.twitter.com/zxdWha6LDD

— Excel Soda (@ExcelBottling) August 9, 2018

I remember Frostie Root Beer vividly. It was about the only kind my mother bought as a kid growing up in Jackson, TN. I didn’t know it was still around.

— George Phillips (@Oilpressureblog) June 1, 2018

Someone broke into my car last night.. Jerk got away w/ $6.57, my sunglasses, 5 bottles of Frostie root beer, & the volume knob of my radio.

— Spencer Dorhout (@SpencerDorhout) March 31, 2015