Drinking Very Old A&W Root Beer Compared To New Product

[@NewEnglandWildlifeAndMore]

Hey everyone! Welcome to Old food saturday. I hope you enjoy this week's video, more videos coming throughout the week and next Saturday I will post a Thanksgiving special video, thanks for watching and have a great night

[@rimfire2642]

I know aspartame breaks down over time. Esepcially in sunlight. Buy a couple diet 2 liters and store one in a dark room for a year, and put the other one where it's in sunlight for part of a day. Might be intersting to tst a few of the different sweeteners.

[@OkraBlossomOk]

Awesome! Can't wait! 😊

[@calex9398]

Have an awesome night!

[@peoplethesedaysberetarded]

Hey, friend! 👋🏻

[@davidetienne9404]

What part of The States are you from? I like your accent and am genuinely curious.

[@jendagesse4524]

Love the furby on the side

[@pauled8no1]

One key difference you overlooked when looking at the ingredients is that the new one has two sweeteners in it: asulfame potassium (sold under brand name Splenda) as well as aspartame. The old one had only aspartame. That might account for the taste difference. Splenda is sweeter.

[@Indiskret1]

I saw that too. Personally I prefer the combination to the single Aspartam-variants, tastes more natural to me (shouldn't use the word natural, anyways) and many drinks of today use both. At least in Sweden. They tried introducing Stevia (even Coca-Cola did that) but that was a complete flop. Many thinks it tastes metallic. No such problem with Acesulfam.

[@statementleaver8095]

Old One advertised as DIET = ASS-PART-A-ME New One advertised as ZERO SUGAR = SWEETNER & ASS-PART-A-ME Sodium had a difference in milligrams/% due to 365-364 capacity Bubble reaction due to preservation packaging on can Seal......Different Gas used.

[@pauled8no1]

@@Indiskret1 I totally agree with you!

[@holysab7]

True but Splenda is sucralose, acesulfame potassium is a different sweetner

[@Kachanoid]

yankees never understand how good is basic cane sugar

[@snowballil3133]

Dads rootbeer is my favorite

[@computerkid1416]

A slight clarification: The "Zero" line didn't necessarily replace Diet, it depends on the soda. It might have with A&W, however, with the case of other sodas like Pepsi or Coke, the "Diet" and "Zero" lines are two different variations, with the "Diet" line being more traditional, whereas "Zero" is attempting to taste more like the regular cane sugar version.

[@DolphinOfFire]

Yep, diet coke and zero sugar tastes different from each other, and I actually prefer the taste of the diet coke. In the case of red bull zero sugar and diet have different sweeteners. One uses aspartame and the other has aspartame and sucrolose

[@Experis-iq6vs]

I don’t know why I love old food Saturdays so much, there’s just something about them. 😂

[@timscott281]

you're not alone there.. its fascinating and nostalgic

[@RockCity1111]

This Man needs protection. We must keep him safe for old food Saturdays !!

[@ChristopherIsIT]

Try hanging your mugs upside down to minimize the amount of particulate from dust and house settling. This, along with through rinsing before use, will minimize questionable particulate in drinks you're testing. Anyway, love your conent! Keep it coming!!!

[@IchliebeHunde58]

It always amazes me how you get your hands on this “ancient,” “vintage” products to make these videos. Very interesting and one of my favourite channels. It has to be the least likely channel to be interesting that is actually VERY interesting. Thank you much! 👌💎

[@LSnium]

This guy need more recognition man Hollywood now days can’t touch this man.

[@avgrim7729]

He needs his own cable show!!!

[@mgratk]

@@avgrim7729 Nah, tv is all garbage. Post is too good for cable.

[@johnsix2764]

Love this - me and my son love and watch all your videos! Plus, I’m a huge fan of A&W.

[@AlexGamer343]

Me empezaron a gustar mucho tus videos, increíble, vine a aprender cosas tan simples que no se me habían ocurrido como lo del interior de las latas, esa cubierta de plástico se rompiera o algo así, muy buen contenido, directo, sin decir tanta tontería, saludos desde México

[@mgratk]

Post, FYI: high alkalinity is as dangerous as high acidity.

[@simple-human-being]

Good point, in some cases it's actually more dangerous

[@roybarnes-thewildlifeman1855]

Impressive! Your consideration for the environment and animals is commendable mate. Well done. I’m in Australia and your videos are very entertaining!

[@sunnihunny]

Many MANY years ago, old drink bottle lids.. the kind that had to be popped off with a can opener.. were lined in cork! And there was a promotional thing going on at one point where there were dimes imbedded underneath the cork! Something I haven't thought about in a looong time😊

[@BananaJonesMom]

I can’t find anything about them putting fines inside the cork?

[@sunnihunny]

Dimes. Yes it was a thing. Perhaps it was only local. This would have been in the early 1960s. The reason I remember it so distinctly is because a family member owned a motel. Their son, my brother and I would spend hours digging cork out of drink caps from the soft drink machine lid drop box. And yes, we found dimes! Sometimes few.. Sometimes many.

[@billlevins7460]

you have been making such great videos lately. We really enjoy these.

[@DeadBeatHotShot]

Old food Saturday is what’s up

[@connielaws1674]

Great video! First, I love Old Food Saturday! Second, I’m now craving root beer!😂 I remember NutraSweet coming out on the market in the early 80’s. The old cans look like maybe early 80’s from the way the nutrition facts look on the can. I used to drink diet soda and I remember NutraSweet had such a bad aftertaste. Love the packaging of course! Thanks for sharing!❤

[@opaldix]

I tried A&W's Zero Sugar Root Beer a few weeks ago and is now my new favorite soda.

[@Mr4..]

Post (don't know your real name) I know you get this alot but I just wanted to say thank you for your efforts on these videos. And if you see this I want you to know that you help me every day battling with depression, but all your videos unclogs, camps, hikes and general vlogging. It's a shame I'm in the UK as I would absolutely would love to go out on a camp in your wildernesses. Thank you 🩵.

[@lorig4871]

Oh i love those , they have snoopy

[@bobbibuttons8730]

Hi from Scotland. I love your videos. They really are so educational to me as we don’t have a lot of the products here. Imo the old suds/foam looks a lot creamier than the old one. I wonder how much of the strange taste is down to the degradation of the aspartame. I must admit I hate that stuff being in almost everything now and I’m so allergic to it.

[@silvialatoni2277]

The stuff could be dust of your Glass cups because they tend to collect dust when you have them out without rinsing them before use.

[@RockCity1111]

He uses them quite often so I wouldn't think it's that. But your are correct 😊

[@JLEXUS]

You are wild. I like wild. (Just my two cents: you should have a palette cleanser in between before drinking the new one AND you should literally test the drinks first before you drink them!!! lol)

[@sneugler]

It seems they used a recipe closer to the traditional method of root beer with some licorice root inside. As a huge fan of the flavor, glad to know it used to be similar to the modern "artisanal" root beers.

[@LordSluggo]

I got diagnosed with the Beetus this year so I had to give up soda. Diet A&W is the only diet soda that almost tastes normal if you're not paying attention

[@dt564]

I'm sorry to hear about your beetus

[@hematinohematino5518]

Sunkist orange soda zero sugar is pretty normal tasting too, I'm in the same boat with the beetus but two years ago and that's my go to.

[@nitroxylictv]

Zero sugar citrus green tea tastes literally identical to normal green tea especially limpton, if thats your thing. I think it has to do with the sour citrus flavoring cancelling out the gross bitterness of aspartame and sucralose. Also zero sugar Canada Dry is pretty good.

[@jimdarhower4945]

I agree with the root beer and Sunkist. Zero sugar sprite/7up are both pretty good. Zero sugar cherry 7up is real good.

[@peoplethesedaysberetarded]

Revisit Coke Zero, Pepsi Zero, Dr Pepper Zero once you are weaned off of sugar. They taste really great in actuality, and you haven’t been able to taste them for what they are during your sugar-addiction phase.

[@stellamaggard3669]

Too bad you didn't have some vanilla ice cream. To make some root beer floats. Always interesting ❤❤❤

[@filmandphoto11]

The new one looks to include Quillaia Extract that does not appear in the old one

[@beckstairs]

The sodium changed .

[@toebarsrealm3773]

Fun vid, thanks! Now if you could find some 40 y/o vanilla ice cream and do a rootbeer float! The holy grail of old food testing? Thanks post!

[@Youtubecensoredmyusername]

Lol ice cream would never last. He could make some 80 year old dehydrated milk and make ice cream maybe

[@toebarsrealm3773]

@@KZbincensoredmyusername now you're talkin! Good idea!

[@ericcrawford7207]

I bet that ancient aspartame went bad after all this time and that's why it's sour

[@watersloth288]

so awesome love how you talk about everything that's wrong with our food industry in these videos

[@tweezerjam]

Love the old food rants 😂

[@watersloth288]

also a lot of root beers soemtimes do taste like black licorice

[@AB-ye7bw]

Excellent demonstration!👍

[@TheUKMediaWatch]

Cheers 🍻 😉

[@noahboat580]

Gotta love the snoopy art on the A&W can

[@hecatesheart521]

Yes!! Old food Saturday is here! 😊

[@cobraF117a]

Thanks for the video!

[@marcberm]

As soon as I saw the NutraSweet logo I ccould tell you those were going to be gross. Anything made with artificial sweeteners won't last more than a year without getting gross off flavors. The chemical sweetener breaks down into other things it's disgusting.

[@nitroxylictv]

It also tastes bad from the start. Sucralose and aspartame are pretty nasty and some people are born with a different set of taste buds that trigger the bitter receptors instead of the sweet receptors when consuming sweeteners. I know because im one of them. It tastes metallic and bitter and makes what would be normal tasting soda taste like it has rust or iron in it. To me zero coke and diet dr pepper taste like water from a rusty pipe.

[@stevenkimsey7039]

Oh well, nobody lives forever. The microplastics and forever chemicals are probably detrimental to life. Kind of a slow motion train wreck

[@DexterSkelter]

Love your channel. Simple but very entertaining. Thank you.

[@kouwearie5302]

You're a true Horsefighter!❤

[@lukenystroem]

Haha, the Furby. Part of my childhood❤

[@cherylyargeau4422]

Very cool vid Post. You rock Saturdays!

[@Guitarplayer7253]

These videos always cheer me up, thanks for these videos!

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thank you! 🫚

[@SteveSmith-lo2wd]

I love a good root beer myself. But not that sugar free. Yuk! Anyone that has acid reflux or digestive issues should absolutely not use artificial sweeteners. The sweetener makes it even worse.

[@a-little-sunshine]

I like it when you show the modern day product beside the old one because it makes me think of someone watching this video in 40 years time and being able to compare theirs with these two too :)

[@jordangassman2595]

Hi New England Wildlife And More, great video and always keep it up love these and those old root beer cans are in great condition.

[@Plasmacore_V]

All of these diet / zero sugar-free drinks have a weird bitter flavor even when they're new. Then once you swallow you get the strange aftertaste / feel on your tongue. Makes them unpalatable, and I've always wondered how people can stand to drink them.

[@mgratk]

I've always liked the artificially sweetened and think that regular is syrupy and not thirst-quenching.

[@dennisf1973]

I can't handle it, my throat hurts after it so i always notice this very exact thing! Never have that with natural sugar in a drink!! Some are just bad for you when consumed a lot and can cause cancer in studies. (Don't drink them a lot..)

[@sh3tpostsgamertime204]

Pepsi max doesn’t idk why

[@dennisf1973]

@@sh3tpostsgamertime204 The times i drank that, it seemed ok!

[@antoneckhart4010]

​@@mgratkisnt that because in america you have corn syrup for sugar? In the america soda section in my shop I noticed they all "thick" and syrupy. In UK EU everything is sugar or sweetener. So yeah I understand why you might prefer the sweetener ones.

[@youtubetim3577]

Oh man love the graphics on old cans.

[@w.w77]

FUN FACT When the coca cola syrup is shipped to australia, it is transported in Gold lined stainless steel containers so the syrup doesnt eat through the stainless steel. I went on a tour of the coke factory here in australia. Very interesting but i no longer drink any soda.

[@mgratk]

So no more lemonade or OJ either?

[@w.w77]

@@mgratk no mate. I make my own freshly squeezed orange juice or tea.

[@Joe-e7i1g]

Reminds me of fluoride.😂 Congrats giving up soda! I haven’t had one this year.

[@w.w77]

@@Joe-e7i1g its poison. Who thought it would be delicious to make a drink with phosphoric acid 🤔 cause that's what's in all sodas

[@DavideDavini]

I have a beer instead. Probably not much better for your health but at least my teeth don’t get destroyed as much. LOL. Cheers mate.

[@AdamKaiser.]

I’m curious do you plan on storing new cans and testing them like 40 years from now since you would know firsthand how they are supposed to taste?

[@BlackFlagHeathen]

That’s actually a great idea, I’m just imagining him opening a can of soda from 2024 in 2064 and comparing it to a 2064 can when he’s old and wrinkly and grey. He’d probably still be doing it, and I’d still be watching! Lol

[@R3troZone]

Older sodas like root beer and cream soda contained powdered lactose which is basically the natural sugar in milk. It's what made the drinks taste creamy and feel smooth on your tongue. Newer sodas don't really use it anymore. That's why the foam in the older soda seemed better, it's the carbonation reacting with the lactose.

[@t3rum]

You didn't read all of the ingredients. The new one has Quillaia extract listed right after malic acid and the old one doesn't

[@jimmyjimjims7483]

Aspartame gives me a horrible headache so I don't drink diet anything, and I can't have anything with Phenylalanine because I get an irregular heartbeat so I just avoid diet soda at all costs (and also read every single food label).

[@SinistralCitizen]

I think the old A&W cans were made of steel. I remember when i was a kid and took cans to the recycling center they'd make me pick them out. Try holding a magnet to it.

[@ohionative5237]

Root beer and black licorice are both flavored with anise.

[@R3troZone]

There is very little licorice root in Root Beer. The main flavoring comes from Sassafras root and Wintergreen.

[@dcozombieloverr7115]

another great video bro

[@toonsguy9782]

You are a very good KZbinr.

[@calex9398]

That sink is boss

[@Jonny_The_Organism]

It's the sound of the SIZZLE.....just like frying Bacon!...

[@MrBigMac-IN]

The different types of gases used can determine the consistency of the bubbles. C 02 make bigger, wider bubbles - whereas nitrogen tends to make smaller finer bubbles. Some places like the Guinness Brewery will mix their own gases. Guinness gas is a mix of 50% c 02 and 50% nitrogen. It provides a unique consistency/mouth feel. (Brewer here, lol)

[@peoplethesedaysberetarded]

That’s a cool fact; I’d assumed nitrogen in Guinness but didn’t know it was a 50-50 mix. Neat!

[@melodiccanvas]

Hey Dave! Thanks for the video! I love A and W dave

[@hellomcflyy]

that Snoopy can is from 1988 or 1989....not 1977....I kept one when it was new...

[@frederickbowman4494]

GREAT VIDEO!!!

[@CrystalUniverseCity]

Let's give it a quick sniff

[@dennisf1973]

I feel like some of the ingredients in the USA are much "worse" then they are in Europe. While safety is at a high standard? Personally i don't drink much lemonades etc. But never the ones with sugar subsitutes of any kind. Weirdly my throat is getting sore/bad aftertaste?! So i guess my body knows it's not good or something. I am allergic to some foods or herbs. I never have this with natural sugar! In Holland (NL) our water is very drinkable from the tap. It's filtered without chemicals and high-tech filtration, unlike some other south-European countries where they still use chlorine. I still use my Brita filtercan, now i got Spa-like water without traces of medication also. Tastes very good! Maybe a suggestion for yourself. I understand where you live it's another story but at least you got a choice. Thanks for the video(s)! Don't drink or eat too much old stuff.. 🫗⌛️😂 The toilet with the googly eyes loves it!

[@glennb92]

You wouldn't say that can is from the 70's. So cool.

[@notoxicty6890]

My fav kind of vid !!!

[@comicpizza8905]

"Sour and musty but not necessarily bad" LOL

[@AstraSystem]

One of my favorite parts of each Saturday! edit: I had to order some A&W after watching this. Happily sipping it while eating a grilled egg and cheese sandwich for dinner.

[@EBTheOriginalMaster]

Diet and Zero Sugar sodas are actually different. Zero Sugar are meant to taste like the original, but with no sugar.

[@Thetimecapsuletx]

I always said that some day they will be mining the landfills for all the plastics to remake petroleum.

[@mikeghor932]

I don't think vinegar actually lows alkalinity...

[@dpp898]

Love the channel man ✌️

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

Ahhh A&W I love that stuff.

[@Tea-Flowers]

I'm addicted to these videos ❤ in a good way. 😂

[@brianbauer7560]

Root beer is my favorite soft drink. Yummy

[@jessejorgensen3931]

I love that he's not only interested in is it still good? But why? What's the difference between the two?

[@the_secret_raven]

I absolutely love A&W Root Beer! I always buy the full sugar ones though as I'm not a fan of drinks with sweeteners in them. Here in the UK I can only buy A&W on the US import isle of Sainsbury's which is a UK Supermarket and it's around £3 a tin! Great vid, Post! Thanks.

[@GinaSiska]

I agree, artificial sweeteners are extremely unhealthy.

[@anxiousmofo6673]

I love that Woodstock 94 Pepsi can. One concert I wish I could of went to, but I was only 5 at the time.

[@turji]

The new can has over 50% more sodium, 115mg the old one has 50mg. When u do these tests with sods that is good, u shuld do a blind test, to see if u can tell whats old and whats new.

[@chrislaberge2255]

Awesome video my child hodd right there hi form vermont

[@fhwolthuis]

Another great video, Post 👌😃

[@chrisstott4100]

Post, Interesting as usual! The suds were different. I like you got a Peanuts tie in six pack. Interesting factoid about the plastic rings. Wear your rubber duck shirt in one of these videos, so we can get a good look at it. Stay warm!

[@katieyoung7271]

I always look forward to your videos.

[@jonandjerryshorts]

Do Pringles please

[@JayStephens8]

Nice I can’t remember if they still make a diet version but I’ve noticed lately more soda companies are making zero sugar drinks and putting less focus on the diet stuff

[@rocknroller77]

They do. I've bought it before.

[@DirtfishingChad]

Just so you know that can is from 1994. It's 29 yrs old. Just search a&w snoopy weightlifting can. The dates on the can are the copyright dates for peanut characters.

[@JohnPaul-ru2wb]

Post is awesome keep up the great videos!!

[@whyhelp141]

A&W makes the best root bar floats XD

[@jimdarhower4945]

Snoopy getting swole.

[@jessen600]

They say aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde when it goes bad.

[@thenewjerseydevil997]

That was interesting, the suds on carton looked real lol

[@billykl2790]

There is a difference between zero sugar and diet. The zero sugar is made to taste more like regular soda. You can really notice the difference in diet Pepsi and Pepsi zero. They still make diet A&W.

[@ryan62082]

Not sure if it was mentioned already but sodium is 115mg(new) … 50mg(old)…. Unless I’m reading wrong

[@ducewags]

Todays fun fact. The number one thing found in a water treatment, sewage plant, is condoms. Thanks for the shows Post.

[@avgrim7729]

Looks like someone shotgunned that Pepsi!!!

[@jollyroger35]

When I was young the cap gaskets were use for contests as well. You would remove it to see what you won. Now a days a big reason why you remove the caps before recycling is because they are too small for the recycling machines. I read anything smaller than a small ketchup or salsa cup you find at fast food restaurants will get rejected.