{"id":20223,"date":"2018-08-06T09:32:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T16:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=20223"},"modified":"2019-08-06T09:21:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:21:01","slug":"how-now-black-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2018\/08\/06\/how-now-black-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the story of how the root beer float was invented!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Start frosting your mugs because today is National Root Beer Float Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/d2Zl2gYtilRC0Cic\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The root beer float is sometimes also known as the &#8220;Black Cow&#8221; and is made with vanilla ice cream and, of course, ROOT BEER!! The &#8220;Black Cow&#8221; was invented by\u00a0Frank J. Wisner of Cripple Creek, Colorado in 1893!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaldaycalendar.com\/2014\/08\/05\/august-6-2014-national-root-beer-float-day-national-fresh-breath-day\/\">the story<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One night, as Wisner, owner of the Cripple Creek Cow Mountain Gold Mining Company, was staring out the window and thinking about the line of soda waters that was producing for the citizens of Cripple Creek, he came upon an idea. \u00a0The full moon that night that was shining on the snow-capped Cow Mountain reminded him of a scoop of vanilla ice cream. \u00a0He hurried back to his bar and added a scoop to the children\u2019s favorite flavor of soda,\u00a0<em>Myers Avenue Red root beer<\/em>, tried it, liked it and served it the very next day. \u00a0It was an immediate hit.<\/p>\n<p>Wisner named the new creation, \u201cBlack Cow Mountain\u201d but the local children shortened the name to \u201c<strong>Black Cow.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>I love that story.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"463\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14131\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Welcome_to_Cripple_Creek_Colorado.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome_to_Cripple_Creek_Colorado\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cripple_Creek,_Colorado\">via<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today, the recipe for a Black Cow differs from a Root Beer Float. They both have root beer,\u00a0vanilla ice cream, and (sometimes) whipped cream, but the Black Cow also has chocolate syrup&#8230; YUM!! (By the way, Black Cow Day is June 10th. Mark your calendars!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today though, if you live near an A&amp;W Restaurant, head on down there to get a FREE root beer float from 2 PM to 8 PM!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yum!<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awrestaurants.com\/rootbeerfloatday\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14126\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Root-beer-float-AW.jpg\" alt=\"Root-beer-float-A&amp;W\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Root-beer-float-AW.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Root-beer-float-AW-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/l4hLOmjT5rV0SgKaY\" width=\"480\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=13503-20&l=alb&o=1&a=B00LNCSUSI\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" alt=\"\" style=\"position: fixed !important; bottom: -1px !important; right: -1px !important; border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=13503-20&l=alb&o=1&a=B008EM05GU\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" alt=\"\" style=\"position: fixed !important; bottom: -1px !important; right: -1px !important; border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=13503-20&l=alb&o=1&a=B00CA8O6TQ\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" alt=\"\" style=\"position: fixed !important; bottom: -1px !important; right: -1px !important; border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=13503-20&l=alb&o=1&a=B000RH5V3W\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" alt=\"\" style=\"position: fixed !important; bottom: -1px !important; right: -1px !important; border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=13503-20&l=alb&o=1&a=B00NU60GPK\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" alt=\"\" style=\"position: fixed !important; bottom: -1px !important; right: -1px !important; border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=13503-20&l=alb&o=1&a=B00005MG3O\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" alt=\"\" style=\"position: fixed !important; bottom: -1px !important; right: -1px !important; border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><!-- A 2x5 Grid Template Layout. It can be configured by the two input fields below --><br \/>\n <!--Section tag for iterating through the list of items--><\/p>\n<div class=\"aalb-pg-ad-unit\" id=\"aalb-B00LNCSUSI-B008EM05GU-B00CA8O6TQ-B000RH5V3W-B00NU60GPK-B00005MG3O-US-13503-20-ProductGrid\">\n<h2 class=\"aalb-pg-ad-header\">Products from Amazon.com<\/h2>\n<p> <!-- Title of the ad localized according to the marketplace picked from the AalbHeader tag --><\/p>\n<div class=\"aalb-pg-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"aalb-pg-product-container\">\n<ul class=\"aalb-pg-product-list\">\n                  <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start frosting your mugs because today is National Root Beer Float Day! The root beer float is sometimes also known as the &#8220;Black Cow&#8221; and is made with vanilla ice cream and, of course, ROOT BEER!! The &#8220;Black Cow&#8221; was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-holidays","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22189,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223\/revisions\/22189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}