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.
—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.
—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.
—Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
The school’s name is a local misnomer on the order of the egg cream.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
The third course is either an egg cream puff or tuxedo cake.
—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.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
Crestwood Pharmacy also offers classic soda fountain libations including egg creams, phosphate sodas, and Lime Rickeys.
—Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 26 June 2023
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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.
—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.
—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.
—Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
The school’s name is a local misnomer on the order of the egg cream.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
The third course is either an egg cream puff or tuxedo cake.
—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.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
Crestwood Pharmacy also offers classic soda fountain libations including egg creams, phosphate sodas, and Lime Rickeys.
—Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 26 June 2023
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“Egg cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/egg%20cream. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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