New York City's Top 10 Egg Creams

The Daily Meal ^ | Feb 06, 2012

[nickcarraway]

[Doogle]

"I'll have a large please"

[Vaquero]

yup you gotta have Fox-u-bet syrup to make an egg cream...

and seltzer...

no egg....no cream.

and if you’re broke...get a 2 cent plain.

[Yardstick]

First time I’ve heard of this. What’s special about the Fox-u-bet syrup? Why wouldn’t Hersheys work?

[massgopguy]

I want the Five Dollar Shake.

[Yardstick]

First time I’ve heard of this. What’s special about the Fox-u-bet syrup? Why wouldn’t Hersheys work?

[SoKatt]

That egg cream would go beautifully with a Reuben- heavy on the Russian dressing and kraut. Yum. Now I have a craving.

[1raider1]

White or brown head?

[nuconvert]

sorry, I grew up on vanilla egg creams

[TBP]

Thank you.

[txhurl]

Am I to understand there is no alcohol involved?

[JRandomFreeper]

I checked my Escoffier, and this doesn't seem to be among the recipes for punches.

Perhaps it's EVIL.

Sorry, Friday afternoon after a harsh week, and a classical culinary education made me say that.

It's 10 minutes to beer time.

/johnny

[ObamaMustGo2012]

<< sorry, I grew up on vanilla egg creams >>

Same here, bro. Tried a chocolate one from time to time — and I’m a chocolate over a vanilla fan in general — but the vanilla egg cream was something I grew up with. It was a Saturday tradition with me and my Jewish friend. I STILL have one with my pastrami on rye (w/mustard) when I’m in a NYC Jewish deli. LOVE ‘EM!

And I’m not Jewish!

[Lurking Libertarian]

The name egg cream is thought to derive from the Yiddish "echt" (sounds like "egg") cream, meaning "genuine" cream. For those of you who claim New York City as your home but were raised in, say, Idaho, allow me to clarify something right off the bat: An egg cream is made with neither eggs nor cream.

Dubious.

Growing up in New York, I heard many theories about the etymology of the name, but the one which sounds most plausible to me is that the foam on top of an egg cream looks like beaten egg white.

[fso301]

What alcohol is to be mixed with it?

[1raider1]

That’s right, The milk and seltzer form a head when mixed.

[Lurking Libertarian]

First time I’ve heard of this. What’s special about the Fox-u-bet syrup? Why wouldn’t Hersheys work?

It's a very old (early 1900s) brand, originally (and probably still) manufactured in Brooklyn, New York, so afficianados of the egg cream insist that it is the only authentic syrup to use.

[ontap]

The closest I can get is Neslies Quik, milk and an Alka Selzer will that work!!

[Beowulf9]

My mom’s fav, and I followed in my mom’s footsteps:)

[Domestic Church]

Thanks for the memories!!!