Eventually, pharmacies started adding different herbs and chemicals to improve the flavor: ginger, birch bark, dandelion, sarsaparilla, fruit extracts, and all sorts of other things.
Charity did not think the wine as good as sarsaparilla, but she sipped a mouthful for the pleasure of doing what he did, and of fancying herself alone with him in foreign countries.
Outside of some of the doors were trestles with banked-up oranges and apples, spotted pears and dusty raspberries; and the air reeked with the smell of fruit and stale coffee, beer and sarsaparilla and fried potatoes.