Reminds me: Who (what?) is (a) Twank?

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

Sassafras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sassafras is a genus of three^[1][2] species of deciduous trees in the family Lauraceae, native to eastern North America and eastern Asia.^[2]

Originally, it was the main ingredient in root beer. At some point the medical community discovered that if you could drink several hundred gallons of sassafras extract in two minutes you had better odds at getting some obscure disease. So sassafras content was reduced or cancelled from some root beers. However, sugar content in root beer has gone up over the decades with no apparent outcry, myself excepted.