Egg creams

[alexpie at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/13/03 9:41:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com writes:

> The one that I will NEVER comprehend is the "egg cream".  There's NO egg in
> it.  Anyone from Brooklyn care to explain?!
> 

Am I the only Brooklyn native on this list?  Must be.  Both the "egg" and the 
"cream" refer to the drink's luxurious taste, not its composition.
Sole ingredients are:
chocolate syrup (Fox's U-Bet)
ice-cold milk 
ice-cold seltzer, preferably shot from  a real seltzer bottle
pretzel rod, extra salty, optional

Some weirdos apparently drink vanilla egg creams, but I've never met one.
Ba, proud Brooklyn native and cookbook editor who now lives "over the bridge"


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