Ice cream float
A soda jerk passing ice cream soda between two soda fountains in 1936 | |
| Alternative names | Ice cream soda, Coke float, root beer float, spider |
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| Type | Dessert |
| Place of origin | United States |
| Region or state | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Created by | Robert McCay Green |
| Main ingredients | Ice cream, syrup and soft drink or carbonated water |
An ice cream float or ice cream soda, also known as an ice cream spider in Australia and New Zealand, is a chilled beverage made by adding ice cream to a soft drink or to a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water.
When root beer and vanilla ice cream are used, the beverage is referred to as a root beer float (United States). A close variation is the coke float, which is made using cola.