[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?

[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.

[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

[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?

[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!!!

[woofer]

Here I thought I was gonna learn something.

Turns out it's just a "soda" without the ice cream of the Brown Cow.

[MarkL]

Drooling on my keyboard...

I still remember the very first egg cream I had... It was at a little news shop with a soda fountain somewhere in The Bronx, near a train station, but I’m not sure where.

All I recall was getting a Spiderman comic and having the most wonderful drink I had ever consumed!

Mark

[martin_fierro]

Bronx-raised Mrs. F is an expert on these. I’d never heard of them before.

[geege]

Mmmmmmmmmm I remember them growing up in Yonkers....They were even better then Yoohoo’s......

[Kickass Conservative]

Great timing. I'm having an Egg Cream right now, and yes, I'm using U-Bet Syrup. Both U-Bet and I are from Brooklyn.
Time for a second glass.

My Father was a Soda Jerk in the late 30’s. We still have, and use, one of the Hamilton Beach Malt Machines he bought from the owner of the Soda Shop where he worked. Art Deco Green with the original Metal Mixing Container. Still works like a charm.

[jocon307]

mmmmmmmm....egg cream!