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|name = Dandelion and burdock
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|image_alt = A full glass of dark carbonated drink next to a mostly-empty bottle.
|caption = A bottle and glass of [[Fentimans]] dandelionDandelion and& burdockBurdock
|type = Carbonated soft drink
|manufacturer = Various
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'''Dandelion and burdock''' is a beverage originating and commonly consumed in the [[British Isles]] since the [[Middle Ages]]. It was originally a type of light [[mead]] but over the years has evolved into the [[carbonated]] [[soft drink]] commercially available today.{{sfnp|Lewis-Stempel|2010|p=153}} Traditionally, it was made from fermented dandelion (''[[Taraxacum officinale]]'') and burdock (''[[Arctium lappa]]'') roots, hence the name.
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[[Fentimans]], a beverage company based in the United Kingdom, offers a version of the naturally brewed dandelion and burdock drink, containing extracts of both plants<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fentimans.com/soft_drinks |title=Our botanically brewed beverages |publisher=Fentimans |accessdate=22 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140727133609/http://www.fentimans.com/soft_drinks |archivedate=27 July 2014}}</ref> (although its main ingredients are sugar and pear juice concentrate).
[[A.G. Barr]], famousknown for its Scottish soft drink [[Irn-Bru]], produces a version of dandelion and burdock under the name ''D'n'B'', andwith the slogan "Tall, dark and drinksome".<ref>{{cite web|title=Barr Dandelion & Burdock Soda 330ml |url=https://crowsnestcandy.ca/product/barr-dandelion-burdock-soda-330ml/?srsltid=AfmBOoolOTMLgynfpAeH05V-49FW9ADNDm2_uYj2qy9WbsYBwyoJEkuT |website=crowsnestcandy.ca |access-date=27 October 2024}}</ref>
The last of the UK's original [[temperance bar]]s, Fitzpatrick's in [[Rawtenstall]], Rossendale, which opened in 1890, still produces its dandelion and burdock to an original recipe brought over from Ireland at the end of the 19th century.<ref>{{citation |title=Rawtenstall raises the bar |date=1 October 2008 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2008/10/01/places_temperance_bar_feature.shtml |publisher=bbc.co.uk |accessdate=10 June 2012}}</ref>
==Apocryphal origin==
One false story regarding itsthe origin is thatof dandelion and burdock is that it was created by [[St. Thomas Aquinas]] in the 13th century.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatpicturegalleries/9353560/Classic-British-drinks.html?frame=2257874|title=Classic British drinks|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=13 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/sep/28/how-make-dandelion-burdock-beer|title=How to make dandelion and burdock beer|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=13 March 2018}}</ref> According to the literary scholar Natasha Simonova, however, this is an urban legend invented by Cambridge students, and subsequently embedded across the internet by [[Citogenesis|journalistic citation of Wikipedia]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/philistella/status/1172470693902135296|title=Did I ever tell you how some boys I knew at Cambridge made up a story about Thomas Aquinas inventing dandelion and burdock one drunken night (a very Cambridge pastime), and now it is *everywhere*.|last=Simonova|first=Natasha|date=2019-09-13|website=@philistella|language=en|access-date=2019-09-13}}</ref> and this very article. The original fraudulent addition, made on 25th February 2007 and seen [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dandelion_and_burdock&diff=110938282&oldid=110419327 here] alleges that:
:There have been a small number of stories concerning its origin, most now widely considered to be apocryphal. One notable example (quoted in ‘The Existence Of God?’<ref>{{cite book|title=The Existence Of God?|author=Simon Martin|date=2005|publisher=Bantam Books}}</ref>) was that St. Thomas Aquinas, after praying for inspiration for a full night, walked from his place of prayer straight into the countryside and, “trusting in God to provide” concocted the drink from the first plants that struck him. It was this drink that aided his concentration when seeking to formulate his theological arguments that ultimately culminated in the [[Summa Theologiae]]. There seems to be little evidence for this however, with some reports quoting the first examples of this story as originating in the early Victorian period.
It also gave a date of 1255 or 1265 for its creation. The attributed book, ''The Existence Of God?'' by Simon Martin and published in Bantam Books in 2005, also does not appear to actually exist, but has also been widely cited as a result, such as [https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/146798 here].
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