Ice Cream Floats...MMMMMM!

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As im sitting here enjoying my ice cream float i was thinking,“hey…i wonder if the guys on the fora liek em too?” so i logged on and decided to find out. For those of you who do not kno what an ice cream float is…i feel sorry for you! But its just a few scoops of ice cream floating in a big glass(or mug in my case) of soda.

So if you have had one(or 20) and you like them, whats your favourite mix?(what kind of ice cream with what kind of soda) Mine is diet pepsi with chocolate ice cream mmmmm!Delicious!

So, whats your flavour?

Bottoms up!

-Phil

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root bear and vanilla
The original’s always the best

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root beer and vanilla or coke and vanilla, oh ya and orange and vanilla is pretty good

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I grew up on Vernor’s gingerale and vanilla.

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I thought they were called root beer floats, and you just used different flavors if you were out of root beer?

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definitely root beer + vanilla…like the monkey said, original is always best.

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im a fan of the original, but orange and vanilla is pretty good

Chase

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Ive tried tons of combinations, whatever pop i have, with whatever ice cream I have, they all taste good.

The best is the original, specially when you stir it all up, then its like a float flavored pop, and really creamy, almost like a shake, but not.

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My favorite combination is Henry Weinhard’s Root Beer and Häagen-Dazs vanilla or Häagen-Dazs vanilla bean ice cream. That is the only way to make a proper root beer float. Everything else is not worthy.

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over here in Aus I think they are called “spiders” I have no Idea why
but my favourite is vanila w/ coke

just so wer’e on the same brain wave here we are talking about the drink where you get ice cream and put it in a fizzy drink of some sort right?

side question who has spiders/floats in a flavour other than
vanila and insert name of drink here¿

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:astonished: I nearly barfed while reading all those recipes :astonished:
(no kidding: the very idea of root beer makes my tummy jump, adding Ice cream on top just send all my digestive agents run for cover:( )
what about an irish coffee to replace those awfull mixtures?

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amen!

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There is no soda that compares to Vernor’s. It is top-o-da-heap as far as sodas go!

When I was growing up and Vernor’s wasn’t available in the local market, every New Year’s my family would stay up until midnight and drink black cows (root beer floats) or pink ladies (red pop floats) to celebrate. Great family memories.

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i like the original root beer floats… YUM

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Premium root beer is tasty.
Bad root beer and artificially flavored root beer is nasty stuff.

If you have only been able to try the bad stuff then it is no wonder you can’t stomach the thought of it. Is it even possible to find good root beer in Europe? I suspect that trying to find good root beer in Europe would be like trying to find Marmite in the US.

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beer, with no ice cream

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I guess that could work…But whats gonna make it a “float”?:smiley:

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If you drink enough beer things definitely start to float, like your eyeballs as your bladder fills up. I don’t like those kinds of beer floats.

I tried a Guinness float once with vanilla Häagen-Dazs and Guinness draft from a can. I’d rather have the Guinness and the ice cream separately. The ice cream doesn’t improve the Guinness experience. Root beer floats are much better.

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That’s great! I have so many memories of my Detroit Gramma associated with Vernor’s. I remember walking by the Vernor’s bottling company on Woodward with my family. We hiked from the Reniassance Center to the Detroit Institute of Arts one day, passing both White Castle and Vernor’s.

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I’ll second that by saying I don’t even know what Marmite IS