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Old 30-05-2009, 15:25
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With the hot weather I remembered the old classic of cola with ice cream in it - aka ice cream drinks

Used to LOVE them when I was younger but tried to make one there with a bog standard can of pepsi with some ice cream scoops in and it never worked

Anybody able to tell me how to make them properly please?
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Old 30-05-2009, 15:34
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How to make ice cream soda

Sesame Street's Ernie makes an ice cream soda

Now with rock 'n roll (and indigestion)

With a Brooklyn accent (and diabetes)
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Old 30-05-2009, 15:45
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They made a couple on SFTW last week. You still have a day to catch it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kt70f
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Old 30-05-2009, 16:39
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Coke floats?

Admittedly a slightly gross name.
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Old 30-05-2009, 18:14
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With the hot weather I remembered the old classic of cola with ice cream in it - aka ice cream drinks

Used to LOVE them when I was younger but tried to make one there with a bog standard can of pepsi with some ice cream scoops in and it never worked

Anybody able to tell me how to make them properly please?
Maybe there was too much ice-cream if you used several scoops. You need one small scoop with a can of Pepsi.

Some ice-creams don't work with it. I tried McDonalds ice-cream in coke once...didn't work. i think the Cornish style vanilla ice-creams work best,
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Old 30-05-2009, 18:23
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Add a scoop of ice cream, or two to a tall glass, a good firm vanilla is best, Mr Softy style ice cream won't work. and pour over coke, irn bru, ginger beer, cream soda etc. That's all there is to it.
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Old 30-05-2009, 19:10
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Maybe I did use too much ice cream then. Was a total let down lol

Went dead watery and didn't taste so good. Was just your bog standard vanilla ice cream.
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Old 30-05-2009, 22:54
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I just tried it with cream soda and raspberry ripple, doesn't work, the ice cream sank!
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Old 30-05-2009, 23:45
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I think you have to put the ice cream in first
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Old 31-05-2009, 01:35
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The only one I used to like as a kid was with vanilla icecream and cream soda - one scoop only though and everything had to be very cold! Sometimes you'd add a dash of lime cordial as well and that was delicious!
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Old 02-06-2009, 02:49
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Ice cold Cream Soda.

Vanilla Ice Cream.

Put together.

Eat/drink.

Yum.
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Old 02-06-2009, 18:43
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Baileys, vanilla & choc ice cream, topped with a bit of whipped cream.
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Old 03-06-2009, 00:17
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Oh Lord that chocolate egg cream drink looks vile. Chocolate sauce, milk, mixed with tonic water and possibly an egg?
*voms*
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Old 03-06-2009, 03:14
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Oh Lord that chocolate egg cream drink looks vile. Chocolate sauce, milk, mixed with tonic water and possibly an egg?
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Have to agree - egg, milk and tonic really does sound vomit inducing! Wouldn't it curdle?!
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Old 03-06-2009, 09:07
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Oh Lord that chocolate egg cream drink looks vile. Chocolate sauce, milk, mixed with tonic water and possibly an egg?
*voms*
The drink egg cream does not have egg or cream or tonic in it. It originated in New York City and includes chocolate syrup, some milk, and seltzer, which is simply carbonated water and nothing else (not tonic water, which is flavoured!).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_cream

If made properly it is delicious and actually quite refreshing. It should be very cold. The best way to describe it is cold chocolate milk with fizz.

Making it on your own with seltzer from a bottle doesn't really work as it does from a fountain, as it was traditionally made, because you had more carbonation coming from the fountain, as you do today with automated fountains in fast food places for the process of mixing the syrup with the seltzer.

The process of mixing, unless compensated for with extra carbonation, will simply release the carbon leading to a more flat/less fizzy drink. Not what you want with either the soda or the egg cream, though the egg creams I drank in New York were never as fizzy as a cold soda.

The other reason for it having to be cold, all the ingredients that is, is that that also prevents much of the carbon from being released when mixed.

It is key with American ice cream drinks that include soda that all the ingredients must be very cold or otherwise you have the problem, as I mentioned above, of much carbon being released. It's like putting ice into warm soda, the difference in temperature will cause it to fizz over releasing most of the carbon leading to a cold but flat soda.
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Old 03-06-2009, 09:14
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Coke floats?

Admittedly a slightly gross name.
That's what we used to call them!!

Yesterday we had a lemonade float, was deeeeelicious. I love how the fizz gets in to the ice cream and you get the lovely froth!!

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Old 03-06-2009, 09:17
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That's what we used to call them!!

Yesterday we had a lemonade float, was deeeeelicious. I love how the fizz gets in to the ice cream and you get the lovely froth!!

In America they are called ice cream sodas or floats.
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Old 03-06-2009, 09:20
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Try an ice cream soda of vanilla ice cream and grape soda. Delicious. Looks pretty too.
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Old 03-06-2009, 13:37
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Try an ice cream soda of vanilla ice cream and grape soda. Delicious. Looks pretty too.
I don't think we get grape soda in the UK. I've never seen it. Anyone?
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Old 03-06-2009, 13:51
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Perhaps you have to make with rubbishy, chemical-filled ice creams like we had in the 1950s and 1960s, and not with trendy modern high quality gourmet ice cream like we have now.
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Old 03-06-2009, 14:09
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Spiders we call them in Australia, I have no idea why. The best one is vanilla ice-cream in Coke.
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Old 03-06-2009, 14:35
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Spiders we call them in Australia, I have no idea why. The best one is vanilla ice-cream in Coke.
Definitely agree with this!!! sainsbury's classic cola and a scoop of normal vanilla ice cream!

Delish!!
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Old 03-06-2009, 22:49
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I don't think we get grape soda in the UK. I've never seen it. Anyone?
Yeah you can get it here.
Though I've noticed round here it's sold more where there's a West Indian connection in the area.
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Old 03-06-2009, 23:10
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Try the one featured in the film "Gregory's Girl" :-

Cornish Vanilla Ice Cream
Ginger Beer
Lime Cordial

Had this as a kid a long time ago.
Very nice.
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Old 03-06-2009, 23:15
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Try the one featured in the film "Gregory's Girl" :-

Cornish Vanilla Ice Cream
Ginger Beer
Lime Cordial

Had this as a kid a long time ago.
Very nice.
It's the Moscow Mule of ice cream sodas
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