Aug 27, 2009
Ice Cream Float Terminology
Wikipedia has a surprising comprehensive article on ice cream floats, so next time you can use the technical term.
A Root beer float / black cow / brown cow is root beer and vanilla ice cream.
A Boston cooler is ginger ale and vanilla ice cream.
A Snow White is 7-Up or Sprite and vanilla ice cream.
A Coke float is Coke and vanilla ice cream.
A sherbet float is ginger ale and any kind of sherbet.
A beer float is lager beer and vanilla ice cream.
A purple cow is grape soda and vanilla ice cream.