An egg cream is a classic New York City beverage consisting of chocolate syrup (Almost always Fox's U-bet chocolate syrup in New York), milk, and seltzer (soda water), probably dating from the late 19th century, and is especially associated with Brooklyn, home of its inventor, candy shop owner Louis Auster.^{[citation needed]} It contains neither eggs nor cream. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City... The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids, see Drinking. ... CHOCOLATE IS VERY NICE! Chocolate most commonly comes in dark, milk, and white varieties, with cocoa solids contributing to the brown coloration. ... In cooking, a syrup (from Arabic شراب sharab, beverage, via Latin siropus) is a thick, viscous liquid, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars, but showing little tendency to deposit crystals. ... Foxs U-bet chocolate syrup is a commercial chocolate syrup made by in Brooklyn, New York since 1895. ... A glass of cows milk A goat kid feeding on its mothers milk Milk is the nutrient fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals (including monotremes). ... Bubbles in carbonated water float to the surface. ... Bubbles in carbonated water float to the surface. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Brooklyn (named for the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ... An egg is an ovum produced by a female animal for reproduction, often prepared as food. ... Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-fat layer skimmed from the top of raw milk before homogenization. ...

The essential components of a New York Egg Cream: Fox's U-Bet, Seltzer and Whole Milk.
Photo courtesy of Jason Perlow

The origin of the name "egg cream" is constantly debated. Stanley Auster, the grandson of the inventor, has been quoted as saying that the origins of the name are lost in time.^[1] One commonly accepted origin is that Egg is a corruption of the German/Yiddish word echt ("genuine" or "real") and this was a "good cream". It may also have been called an "Egg Cream" because in the late 1800s, there were already many chocolate fountain/dessert drinks using actual eggs (e.g. 'Egg Brin'), and Auster wanted to capitalize on the name. Image File history File linksMetadata Eggcreamparts. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Eggcreamparts. ... Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ... Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1805 - 1815). ...

Though almost universally made with chocolate syrup, they were sometimes requested with other flavors, especially vanilla or strawberry. Flavor or flavour (see spelling differences) is the sensory impression of a food or other substance, and is determined mainly by the chemical senses of taste and smell. ... Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids in the genus Vanilla. ... Species 20+ species; see text The strawberry (Fragaria) is a genus of plants in the family Rosaceae, and the fruit of these plants. ...

The egg cream is almost exclusively a fountain drink; although there have been several attempts to bottle it, none have been wholly successful, as its fresh taste and characteristic head requires mixing of the ingredients just before drinking. The drink could be described as a "poor man's ice cream soda," as it has a similar overall flavor, but traditionally sold for only a slight premium over an ordinary fountain soda. Soda fountain is a North American term referring to the carbonated drink dispensers found in fast food restaurants and convenience stores in the US and Canada. ... A lime spider The ice cream soda is a treat made, typically, by mixing ice cream with either a soft drink or flavored syrup and carbonated water, often with some special technique to encourage the partial slushing of the ice cream itself. ...

A New York Egg Cream.
Photo courtesy of Jason Perlow

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Non-trivial references in popular culture

Lou Reed wrote a song "Egg Cream" for the album Set the Twilight Reeling. Lewis Allen Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... 1996 release by rock and roll deity, Lou Reed. ...

Sample excerpt:

"When I was a young man—no bigger than this

A chocolate egg cream was not to be missed

Some U-Bet's Chocolate Syrup, seltzer water mixed with milk

Stir it up into a heady fro—tasted just like silk

You scream, I steam, We all want Egg Cream"

Sources

1. ^ John F. Mariani, Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, Lebhar-Friedman:New York, 1999.

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External links

• H. Fox & Co., Inc.
• Egg cream recipe from H. Fox & Co.
• H2G2 article on the egg cream
• A New York Egg Cream Primer (Off The Broiler blog)