Egg Creams

[EddieMoscone]

I had an Egg Cream last night for the first time in FOREVER (at Jackson Hole) and of course made me think Old School.

I had a social studies teacher in Junior High School actually dedicate a whole class on how to make a proper Egg Cream. He even had us all buy U-Beet's and bring that and the rest of the ingredients to class so we could make our own.!

Maspeth News in Maspeth (duh) was the place I used to go with my Dad for Egg Creams at least once a week.

[mendyweiss]

http://www.nmajh.org/weblog/cur/seltzer_bottle.JPG
Seltzer has to come from here, also Fox's U-bet is only syrup allowed

[The Blowhard]

http://www.nmajh.org/weblog/cur/seltzer_bottle.JPG
Seltzer has to come from here, also Fox's U-bet is only syrup allowed


Agreed, 100%. The candy stores with soda fountains in NYC are vanishing, but if you look hard enough, you'll find one. And I'm not talking about those faux hipster places in Williamsburg and other places where it's hip to be retro. Damn frauds!

[Friday]

when i was a kid i used to get vanilla egg cremes every wednesday at the bowling alley where i was in a bantam league.

so completely delicious!

[BMoses]

"You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream"

[cupcakelove]

I've never had one, but from the description I read on wikipedia, it just sounds like a carbonated chocolate milk, which sounds kinda gross. I'd be willing to try it out if someone could tell me where to get one.

[hedges]

I think I read about egg creams in a Henry Miller book, maybe. If that's right, then they've been around for quite awhile, eh? I just remember really wanting one as I was reading--and of course the novel was set in NYC.

[Midkiff]

You ate cream out of whose hole?

[hedges]

:lol:You ate cream out of whose hole?

[Gvac]

Getting a couple of chili cheese dogs and a chocolate egg cream at Hank's Franks is one of the purest pleasures on the face of the earth.

[sailor]

Getting a couple of chili cheese dogs and a chocolate egg cream at Hank's Franks is one of the purest pleasures on the face of the earth.

never had anything other than a vanilla egg cream. never will.

[ralphbxny]

never had anything other than a vanilla egg cream. never will.

AMEN BROTHER!!!

[Gvac]

never had anything other than a vanilla egg cream. never will.

AMEN BROTHER!!!

It's very brave of you boys to come out like that.

We still accept you.

[StupidGirlllll]

At my ice cream stand..I will always get a lrg chocolate egg cream... but only if the older lady is working...when the younger ones make it they make it too seltzery...I think you have to put the right amount of milk in it.

[djjd]

never had an egg cream, doesn't seem to have migrated to canada

living across the border from detroit, we're all about the boston cooler

the best one's are made with vernor's

Boston cooler
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Boston cooler is a drink typically composed of ginger ale and vanilla ice cream. Variations abound, however, with club soda, sherbet, rum, milk, sugar, or even coffee sometimes added or substituted for the key ingredients. In Ohio, the root beer float (a similar beverage made from vanilla ice cream and root beer) is 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 in his shop along Boston Boulevard. It is known that by the 1880s the Boston cooler was being served in Detroit, made with the local Vernor's, an intense golden ginger ale, unlike the common modern dry ginger ales. Whatever the exact origins, the name almost certainly has no connection to Boston, Massachusetts, where the beverage is virtually unknown.

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 Dairy Queens and at Halo Burger, a mid-Michigan fast food chain.

A slight variation to the Boston Cooler occurred as the concoction drifted south to Ohio. Legend has it that Tom's Ice Cream Bowl in Zanesville, Ohio, 250 miles form Detroit, borrowed the Detroit classic for its menu when it opened in 1948. Tom's has been in business since 1948 and has not changed a thing on the inside. However, Tom's serves their coolers with root beer, not ginger ale.

Cafe Bella Roma, SPQR in Los Angeles also serves Boston Coolers, typically getting an average of 2.5 Bostonians asking what it is. The co-owner of the Cafe had grandparents from the Detroit area who had put it on their menu in Indiana.

Eleven City Diner in Chicago serves Boston Coolers, complimenting its vintage soda fountain and its menu including fountain drinks from around the country such as Brooklyn egg creams and Phosphates.

[buzzard]

we had 'em in NH too! Good stuff!:clap:

[MadMatt]

For those of us who have never sampled an egg cream, what is the allure? Why not use chocolate milk instead of milk and chocolate syrup? Can you make one at home and have it be respectable, and if so, what are the proportions?

I'll hang up and listen to your answer...

:bye:

[Chris from TX]

From the U-bet website:

The Original Brooklyn Egg-Cream

Take a tall, chilled, straight-sided, 8oz. glass

Spoon 1 inch of U-bet Chocolate syrup into glass

Add 1 inch whole milk

Tilt the glass and spray seltzer (from a pressurized cylinder only) off a spoon, to make a big chocolate head

Stir, Drink, Enjoy


Huh, and I thought this thread was about Cadbury Cream Eggs; I'm a dope