Last night I had a dream in which I was helping Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer run their cafe/restaurant. Unpaid, I might add.
One of the drinks we were trying to sell was Sarsparilla. This stuck in my mind upon waking, and shouldered out a lot of other interesting stuff, so to avoid it happening again I decided to find out what Sarsparilla is. Thanks to The Straight Dope I found that “it was originally made (artificial flavors have taken over now, of course) from a blend of birch oil and sassafras, the dried root bark of the sassafras tea”.
Apparently, it is still available, although only in the US, which is no good for me anytime soon.

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