Thursday, November 20, 2008
Wide variations of the ice cream soda can be seen and they are countless as the varieties of soda and flavors of ice cream, but some have become more prominent over the years than others.Root beer float
It is also known as a "brown cow", "black cow". The root beer float is traditionally made with vanilla ice cream and root beer, but it can also be made with other flavors. In US and Canada, the chain A&W Restaurants are well known for their root beer floats. The Friendly's chain also had a variation known as a "sherbet cooler," which was a blend of orange or rainbow sherbet and seltzer water.
In some places, a "root beer float" has strictly vanilla ice cream; a float made with root beer and chocolate ice cream is a "chocolate cow" or a "brown cow." There is also a soda float called "purple cow" and it is made with grape soda and vanilla ice cream.
In 2008, the Dr Pepper Snapple Group introduced its Float beverage line. This includes A&W Root Beer and Sunkist flavors which attempt to simulate the taste of their respectful ice cream float flavors in a creamy, bottled drink.
Boston cooler
A Boston cooler is typically composed of ginger ale and vanilla ice cream. Variations abound, however, with club soda, sherbet, rum, vanilla vodka, milk, sugar, or even coffee sometimes added or substituted for the key ingredients. In Ohio, the root beer floats are also referred to as a Boston cooler. The origin of the Boston cooler lies in Detroit, Michigan, the city in which Fred Sanders is credited with inventing the ice cream soda. Originally, a drink called a Vernors Cream was served as a shot or two of sweet cream poured into a glass of Vernors golden ginger ale. Later, vanilla ice cream was substituted for the cream as a Vernors float. Unlike a float however, a Boston Cooler is blended like a thick milk shake.
In fact, both Sanders' soda fountains and the Big Boy restaurant chain used their milkshake blenders to prepare the drink (it was a signature menu item at Big Boy until its change in ownership in the 1980s). It is known that by the 1880s the Boston cooler was being served in Detroit, made with the local Vernors, an intense golden ginger ale, unlike the common modern dry ginger ales. The name almost certainly has no connection to Boston, Massachusetts, where the beverage is virtually unknown. One theory is that it was named after Detroit's Boston Boulevard, the main thoroughfare of what was then an upper-class neighborhood a short distance from James Vernor's drugstore.
It can be found most often in the Detroit region's many Coney Island-style restaurants, which are plentiful because of Detroit's Greektown district influence. National Coney Island is one of the few restaurant chains to list the Boston cooler in their menu. It is also found at the Detroit-area Dairy Queens and at Halo Burger, a mid-Michigan fast food chain. A Boston Cooler is also available on the menu at the Chow Food Bar in San Francisco.
Snow White
The Snow White is made with 7 Up or Sprite and vanilla ice cream. The origins of this dessert is unknown, but it is found in some Asian eateries.
Coke float
Coca-Cola brand sodas and soft serve ice cream. ('Coke float' is also a common term in the West Coast of Scotland for any cola-based ice cream soda).
Purple cow
In the context of ice cream soda, a purple cow is vanilla ice cream in Concord grape soda. The Purple Cow, a restaurant chain in the southern United States, features this and similar beverages.
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