Talk:Ice cream float

cream soda

look on cream soda it says that cream soda tranional added ice cream to it there for that it basically this here it should be noted instead of americans coping other people ideas and in the part with roat beer should be the tranional version with cream soda you added all the other version. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.22.199.25 (talk) 03:22, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

The article confuses ice cream sodas with floats. While similar, they aren't the same. An ice cream soda always uses soda water and syrup (chocolate, strawberry, et al), may include milk and the ice cream is usually on the edge of the cup and not in the soda (a variation does both) and it is usually topped with whipped cream and a cherry. A float is ice cream in a soft drink (premix).

The picture is of a float, not an ice cream soda. The Library of Congress does identify it as an ice cream soda but it appears to be a float.

216.226.186.92 (talk) 21:44, 5 August 2011 (UTC)Archena

Removed Recipe

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-Ancanus 19:33, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Can you please give me the recipe, as I need to make one, they sound good.--Witeandnerdy 23:20, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Use the "History" tab at the top of each page to find older versions. You would look for an edit by Ancanus around the time of his entry on this discussion page. Here is an older version of the page with the recipe intact: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Ice_cream_soda&oldid=44918030 Of course, you should also learn to rely on Google to do research; in this case you might search for "ice cream soda recipe" and get plenty of hits. 71.57.52.253 00:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't there be a link to the appropriate wiki_ entries? I'll try to add them. --smIsle

Merge

Unless someone objects, I'm going to merge Root beer float and Snow White (ice cream float) here. We really only need one article about this kind of dessert/drink. Rhindle The Red (talk) 17:21, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Be bold and go for it. Terraxos (talk) 02:38, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Black Cow

Some additional references for referring to a root beer float as a "black cow": QUICK BITE/Point Pleasant Beach; O, for a Draught of Root Beer? Get Thee to Stewart's from the New York Times, Andrea Higbie, July 2, 1995; ANYONE FOR A “BLACK COW” ? by Ginnie, who worked at a soda founain in 1950 in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, Black Cow Ice Cream Soda recipe from Gourmet, Feb. 1998. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DMellis (talk • contribs) 23:35, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Also, this press release discusses what is supposedly the first "black cow" or root beer float. —Preceding unsigned comment added by DMellis (talk • contribs) 23:38, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't have references here, but black cow was/is extremely popular at Hong Kong's mass level localized Western food outlets like cha chaan teng or Hong Kong style Western restaurants using cola and vanilla ice-cream. Another variety named golden cow uses mango ice-cream and lemonade/lemon soda like 7-Up or Sprite.--JNZ (talk) 07:01, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I have added a small edit that "black cow" in addition to "brown cow" is known to some as made with cola. I have to say I have never in my life heard of a root beer float called a "black cow," only an ice cream float made with cola. It makes sense that a root beer float would be a "brown cow" whereas a cola float would be known as a "black cow" just due to the color differential. Jeisenberg (talk) 01:32, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

James William Berweick

This supposed Canadian inventor of the ice cream soda was added in a anonymous edit in Sep 2008. Finding no non-Wikipedia related mentions of him on the Web, I have removed him from the article. Rmhermen (talk) 19:45, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Foam-ability

This gives the beverage a "foamy head" similar to a beer head.

I don't think a "citation needed" tag is required for this. It's like putting a tag after a sentence that says "There are 5 fingers on the human hand". There's even a picture clearly demonstrating the frothy properties of the drink right next to this quotation.

Root beer float sentimentalism

Am I the only one who finds the story for the "black cow" a bit wistful and folk-story-ish? It seems terribly unencyclopedic, but I'd hate to just nuke the section if there is some sort of citation available for it. Either way, it might need a rewrite to be a little less like a grandpa story. -Matt S. (talk) 00:16, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Ice cream soda vs. Float in the US

In the US, a float is an ice cream soda made from a premade soda. The term ice cream soda is generally reserved for one where a syrup and club soda are used.--RLent (talk) 16:52, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Invention of Black Cow

I find the credibility of the story of the invention of the black cow to be lacking. The story is being peddled by the great nephew of the supposed inventor over 120 years after the invention as a "family tradition" on http://www.cripplecreekbrewing.com/. The only book that I can find that discusses Wisner inventing the black cow is Chase's Calender of Events, a book that requires to verification for inclusion of submissions. The Washington Post reference is merely a "This Day in History" entry that was probably taken out of Chase's. It was not part of a story where it might be factchecked. The entire story of being inspired by the moon and Cow Mountain to create a black cow comes across as unbelievable and seems like a family tall tale that has been promoted to fact. No one else has ever claimed to invent a root beer float, probably because it seems like an obvious invention that was probably invented multiple times over multiple places. Nightkey (talk) 20:16, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Bizarrely specific

From the article:

'Coke float' is also a common term in the West Coast of Scotland for any cola-based ice cream soda

Why specifically the West Coast of Scotland? It's certainly used in my part of the world (English Midlands) and in other places too. Any particular reason for that region to be singled out? Loganberry (Talk) 15:39, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

people at school love it maybe you should have it as sale one day!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.170.52.235 (talk) 06:54, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

A Black Cow is a BLENDED root beer float

I'm quite confused as to the definition of Black Cow here. A black cow is not just "another name" for a root beer float. It is specifically a BLENDED rootbeer float. I've never seen one made any other way. The only references listed that call it "just a root beer float" are non-accredited even. I wanted to bring this up here first though and see what others thought.