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 A New York World-Telegram newspaper photo of a soda jerk passing ice cream soda between two soda fountains in 1936 | |
| Alternative names | Ice cream soda, Coke float, root beer float, spider |
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| Type | Dessert |
| Place of origin | United States |
| Region or state | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Created by | Robert McCay Green |
| Main ingredients | Ice cream, syrup and soft drink or carbonated water |
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 that consists of ice cream in either a soft drink or a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water.
When root beer (sarsaparilla for Australia and New Zealand) and vanilla ice cream are used, the beverage is typically referred to as a root beer (sarsaparilla) float (United States[2] and Canada). A close variation is the coke float, using cola.
- ^ "spider, n.4" The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1989. OED Online. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Wenzl, Megan. "The Hidden History of Root Beer Floats in Chicago". Chicago Eater. Retrieved April 26, 2016.