milk shakes or egg creams

[sak4kat]

I had to Bing what an egg cream was. And say "Whaaaat"?  There is nothing eggy or creamy about it.  It's uber easy to make as well.  In a chilled glass pour a good inch of chocolate syrup into the bottom.  Than another inch of whole milk. Add seltzer and stir vigorously.   I dunno bout this as I don't like seltzer. 

[michele2042]

Milk shakes only because I can no longer get egg creams.  Loved them and had them growing up all the time.  I liked vanilla egg creams but most people were favored chocolate.   Never tried to make one at home.   Might have to try it.   

[linderlizzie]

I had to Bing what an egg cream was. And say "Whaaaat"?  There is nothing eggy or creamy about it.  It's uber easy to make as well.  In a chilled glass pour a good inch of chocolate syrup into the bottom.  Than another inch of whole milk. Add seltzer and stir vigorously.   I dunno bout this as I don't like seltzer. 

I didn't know exactly what an egg creme was either. Thanks for supplying the info.

Wonder "why" they call it egg creme since it's totally sans eggs. 

One theory is that grade "A" milk was used in its creation, leading to the name "a chocolate A cream", thus sounding like 'egg' cream. Stanley Auster, the grandson of the beverage's alleged inventor, has been quoted as saying that the origins of the name are lost in time. per Wikipedia.

"The story most often mentioned involves Louis Auster, who in the 1890s opened the first of his family’s several candy shops/soda fountains on New York’s Lower East Side. Many egg-cream authorities – I wouldn’t be surprised if NYU has an endowed chair in the subject – consider Auster the creator or popularizer of the beverage.

After the New York Herald Tribune ran an article entitled “The Egg Cream Mystique” in 1964, Louis Auster’s son Emanuel replied with a letter to the editor."

'“Allow me to enlighten you on a few facts,” he wrote. “We are in business since 1892. We started in at Stanton-Lewis Streets on the lower East Side. About 1900, my father originated egg cream chocolate. We made all our syrups.”'

He went on: '“Sodas in those days were 2 cents a 15 oz. glass. or 1 cent you got seltzer with a little syrup on top. Chocolate was 2 cents, and egg cream (pure, cream and eggs, proportioned in a batch of syrup, not an egg to each glass) was 3 cents.”'

"In a 1987 article, Shulman cited an egg-cream recipe in W. A. Bonham’s Modern Guide for Soda Dispensers (1896) that called for both cream and eggs.

And in a 1995 article, he insisted that '“the original drink with that name did have egg and cream in it.” He added that the Oxford English Dictionary had accepted the results of his research on the subject.'" from Grammarphobia Blog.

'The Oxford English Dictionary does in fact now define “egg cream” as “any of various kinds of rich sweet drink made orig. with eggs and milk or cream and more recently with milk, soda water, and flavouring.”'

Well, that was probably WAY TMI, but it's kind of interesting.

[patriciaeclevenger]

I love learning something new, I've never heard of egg creams before. I do enjoy a good milkshake. 

[sabine1991]

i like milkshake but i never heard of egg cream. I would like to try it and it sound fun. Thanks for bringing new stuff.

[mgint]

like chocolate milk shakes the best.

[sdenimandlace1]

I will have to look it up and see what it is.  I do like milk shakes.