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egg cream
noun
: a sweetened drink made with milk or cream and other ingredients
especially
: a drink consisting of milk, a flavoring syrup, and soda water
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Around The Clock Egg Cream From Around The Clock Diner in New Jersey, the egg cream may be a diner classic, but this take elevates it with a boozy twist.
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Aly Walansky, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
As outré, or even profane, as dirty soda might sound, there are plenty of precedents: ice-cream floats; Italian sodas; egg creams, which despite the name contain only seltzer, chocolate or vanilla syrup, and milk.
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Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
That walk for me was down 13th Street between Avenues A and B and onto St Mark's to get an egg cream from Gem Spa.
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Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Sep. 2024
Keep it simple with a Herbert’s Fave — a classic pastrami and coleslaw — and the egg cream, a must.
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Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
The school’s name is a local misnomer on the order of the egg cream.
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Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
The third course is either an egg cream puff or tuxedo cake.
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Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
There’s a milk menu, your choice of plain or chocolate or coffee (a Rhode Island specialty, made with Autocrat-brand coffee syrup, sweet and bitter); the latter two can be topped with a squirt of seltzer to make a very decent egg cream.
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
Crestwood Pharmacy also offers classic soda fountain libations including egg creams, phosphate sodas, and Lime Rickeys.
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Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 26 June 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1906, in the meaning defined above
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“Egg cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/egg%20cream. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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