Ice Cream Sundaes

Lewkat said:
In my youth, I had a part time job after school as a soda jerk and I love making all sorts of concoctions. Got so my customers loved to see what I'd come up with next. Got so that I could not look at ice cream and it's accoutrements after awhile and just settled on egg creams for myself.
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Before the magic of the Internet, I never knew what an egg cream was, but thought what a horrible name for something that was supposed to be a sweet treat.

Seemed that the term was used in movies about New York City, especially featuring teenagers. Never heard the term in any Baltimore establishment that had a soda fountain.
 
I can't eat ice cream anymore but I sure did love any kind of sundae back in the day. Pass on the whipped cream, though.

My favorite was hot fudge with chocolate ice cream!
 
Back in the days of the depression when folks were truly poor, and kids were usually rich if they had a penny or two, a man who owned a soda fountain felt sorry for all. Kids and adults alike. He was from Brooklyn, NY and he came up with the idea of a bit of milk a squirt or two or chocolate syrup and carbonated water or a club soda, mixed them into a glass and charged a couple of pennies for it. I've forgotten off hand why he called it an egg cream, but it can be googled, I guess. Perhaps, it sounded healthy.
 
Lewkat said:
Back in the days of the depression when folks were truly poor, and kids were usually rich if they had a penny or two, a man who owned a soda fountain felt sorry for all. Kids and adults alike. He was from Brooklyn, NY and he came up with the idea of a bit of milk a squirt or two or chocolate syrup and carbonated water or a club soda, mixed them into a glass and charged a couple of pennies for it. I've forgotten off hand why he called it an egg cream, but it can be googled, I guess. Perhaps, it sounded healthy.
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Because it contains no eggs and no cream.. makes sense, doesn't it? :ROFLMAO:
 
An egg cream is a cold beverage consisting of milk, carbonated water, and flavored syrup (typically chocolate (preferably Fox’s U-Bet) or vanilla). Despite the name, the drink contains neither eggs nor cream.

It is prepared by pouring syrup into the glass, adding milk, lightly stirring it with a spoon, then streaming soda water into the glass, mixing the other ingredients. Ideally, the glass is left with 2/3 liquid and 1/3 foamy head.[1]

The egg cream is almost exclusively a fountain drink. Although there have been several attempts to bottle it, none have been wholly successful, as its refreshing taste and characteristic head require mixing of the ingredients just before drinking.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_cream
 
Lewkat said:
but it can be googled
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The peculiarity that an egg cream contains neither eggs nor cream has been explained in various ways. Stanley Auster, the grandson of the beverage's alleged inventor, has said that the origins of the name are lost in time.[2]

It is generally assumed that the egg cream originated among Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York City, so one explanation claims that egg is a corruption of the Yiddish echt 'genuine or real', making an egg cream a "good cream".[citation needed]

Food historian Andrew Smith writes: "During the 1880s, a popular specialty was made with chocolate syrup, cream, and raw eggs mixed into soda water. In poorer neighborhoods, a less expensive version of this treat was created, called the Egg Cream (made without the eggs or cream)."[3]

Another explanation comes from reports that it grew out of a request for chocolat et crème from someone, possibly the actor Boris Thomashefsky[4] who had experienced a similar drink in Paris, which according to his heavy accent morphed the name into something like "egg cream", which then developed into the current term.
 

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