Chocolate Egg Cream or Vanilla ?

[lenquixote66]

I like the original chocolate.

[BruceMuzz]

Living in the past……………..

[lenquixote66]

3 hours ago, BruceMuzz said:

Living in the past……………..

For some of us the past was better than the present

[Harters]

8 hours ago, lenquixote66 said:

For some of us the past was better than the present

Depressing thought if you're right. Remember that, in due course, our present will be someone's past.  

[lenquixote66]

6 hours ago, Harters said:

Depressing thought if you're right. Remember that, in due course, our present will be someone's past.  

Not necessarily depressing.When I was growing up it was possible to walk anywhere in NY ,day or night without fear of being mugged.Streets were clean.Very little if any pollution.I got along fine without automation.

[Harters]

You may be missing my point. In 30/40/50 years time, folk may well look at the 2020s with some envy, thinking "those were the days. Much better than it is now". 

[CGTNORMANDIE]

On 11/12/2023 at 5:50 PM, BruceMuzz said:

Living in the past……………..

Not at all Bruce.  I am on dialysis and have to watch my liquid intake and phosphorus. My weekly treat is a chocolate egg cream which also can be a chocolate ice cream soda which is an egg cream with ice cream added.  

[Harters]

Is an American "chocolate egg cream" different from a British "chocolate Creme Egg"?

[Hlitner]

As a young boy in NYC, we knew what and where to get a real egg cream (which has no eggs or cream).  The recipe is simple and uses whole milk, fountain seltzer, and Foxes U-Bet Chocolate syrup.   Many years ago, I took a good friend into the Stage Deli and we decided to sit at the counter and have an egg cream.  The counter man, who had worked at the Stage for decades, told us that he actually preferred using Hershey's Chocolate Syrup (in place of the Foxes) to which I quickly responded "blasphemy!"  That got a small cheer from a few other patrons that overheard the conversation.

 

DW would say that a real egg cream should be accompanied with a real "black and white (cookie)"

[CGTNORMANDIE]

On 11/14/2023 at 6:07 AM, Harters said:

Is an American "chocolate egg cream" different from a British "chocolate Creme Egg"?

Hlitner gives a good description of the Chocolate egg cream.  Definitely different from your chocolate cream egg?  Isn’t your chocolate cream egg the Cadbury egg?

[CGTNORMANDIE]

On 11/12/2023 at 5:06 PM, lenquixote66 said:

I like the original chocolate.

Does anyone really order the vanilla?

[Harters]

29 minutes ago, CGTNORMANDIE said:

Isn’t your chocolate cream egg the Cadbury egg?

Yep.  Can't stand them myself, although my companion in life loves them. 

[lenquixote66]

5 hours ago, CGTNORMANDIE said:

Does anyone really order the vanilla?

I did 

[lenquixote66]

On 11/14/2023 at 11:53 PM, Hlitner said:

As a young boy in NYC, we knew what and where to get a real egg cream (which has no eggs or cream).  The recipe is simple and uses whole milk, fountain seltzer, and Foxes U-Bet Chocolate syrup.   Many years ago, I took a good friend into the Stage Deli and we decided to sit at the counter and have an egg cream.  The counter man, who had worked at the Stage for decades, told us that he actually preferred using Hershey's Chocolate Syrup (in place of the Foxes) to which I quickly responded "blasphemy!"  That got a small cheer from a few other patrons that overheard the conversation.

 

DW would say that a real egg cream should be accompanied with a real "black and white (cookie)"

My preference was Snaider’s Chocolate Syrup.The owner of the company was born in Brooklyn.

[lenquixote66]

On 11/13/2023 at 12:56 PM, Harters said:

You may be missing my point. In 30/40/50 years time, folk may well look at the 2020s with some envy, thinking "those were the days. Much better than it is now". 

I will not be here at that time to reflect on the 2020’s.

[Harters]

2 minutes ago, lenquixote66 said:

I will not be here at that time to reflect on the 2020’s.

Me neither. But my nephews and nieces will probably be. 

[lenquixote66]

10 minutes ago, Harters said:

Me neither. But my nephews and nieces will probably be. 

 

10 minutes ago, Harters said:

Me neither. But my nephews and nieces will probably be. 

As will mine

[Hlitner]

3 hours ago, lenquixote66 said:

My preference was Snaider’s Chocolate Syrup.The owner of the company was born in Brooklyn.

Now that got my attention...since we never heard of that stuff 🙂

[lenquixote66]

4 minutes ago, Hlitner said:

Now that got my attention...since we never heard of that stuff 🙂

The product was on grocery store shelves in Brooklyn and presumably other areas going back to the 1940’s.The company manufactured all flavors of syrups as well as seltzer.The family lived in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn.

[Lois R]

Egg creams are a northern item.........some of us in the south were never raised on them.

[CGTNORMANDIE]

7 hours ago, Lois R said:

Egg creams are a northern item.........some of us in the south were never raised on them.

You mean you never had a chocolate ice cream soda???

[Lois R]

24 minutes ago, CGTNORMANDIE said:

You mean you never had a chocolate ice cream soda???

Yes, I have but an egg cream? That is a northern thing and I prefer a root beer float. With vanilla ice cream🙂

[CGTNORMANDIE]

3 minutes ago, Lois R said:

Yes, I have but an egg cream? That is a northern thing and I prefer a root beer float. With vanilla ice cream🙂

An ice cream soda is the same thing as an egg cream except without the ice cream.

Edited November 24, 2023 by CGTNORMANDIE

[lenquixote66]

On 11/23/2023 at 11:59 AM, Lois R said:

Egg creams are a northern item.........some of us in the south were never raised on them.

It’s very big in Houston,Texas