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An ice cream float or ice cream soda, also known as an ice cream spider in Australia and New Zealand, [1] is a chilled beverage made by adding ice cream to a soft drink or to a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water. When root beer and vanilla ice cream are used, the beverage is referred to as a root beer float (United States [2]).
Two flavors were available, A&W Float and Sunkist Float. The purpose of the concept was to mimic the flavor of an ice cream float of a given soda . Thus, the A&W flavor was intended to taste like a root beer float , while the latter is comparable to an orange creamsicle or Sunkist float.
Ice cream may be served in dishes, eaten with a spoon, or licked from edible wafer ice cream cones held by the hands as finger food. Ice cream may be served with other desserts—such as cake or pie—or used as an ingredient in cold dishes—like ice cream floats, sundaes, milkshakes, and ice cream cakes—or in baked items such as Baked Alaska.
The ice cream float was created by a twist of fate in 1874 when Robert M. Green ran out of cream for the soda creams he was serving at a semicentennial celebration on a hot day in Philadelphia.
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You’ll only need three ingredients that you probably already have at home—grenadine, ginger ale, and vanilla ice cream. Get the Shirley Temple Float recipe .
In Japan, "cream soda" (クリームソーダ) is a term used for an ice cream float made with melon-flavored soda (メロンソーダ) topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Japanese style cream soda. In Malaysia, the F&N or Fraser and Neave brand makes a clear ice cream soda that sold in a blue packaging.
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