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Could someone verify that chocolate ice cream foams significantly MORE THAN vanilla. Even with vanilla, the root beer foams enormously...I don't think it's the flavor; it's a root beer trait. Kaz 16:27, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Rmhermen 22:13, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
In New England, or at least Massachusetts, a Black Cow is not a root beer float, but root beer blended with vanilla ice cream.
In Oklahoma a Brown Cow is milk or ice cream blended with Coke, and sometimes chocolate syrup. A black cow is just a cow that is black.
I was actually told that a Black Cow is a root beer float done with chocolate ice cream instead of vanilla. Is this a legitimate application of this term or what? Danarchy 07:43, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
do you know why a root beer float foams?
The Cripple Creek story tells us the original root beer float was dubbed a Black Cow, and the Variations section says a Coke float is also called this. So Black means either Coke or root beer. But the first part of the article says Brown Cow also means either Coke or root beer (though this may be a result of confusion between "former" and "latter"). So both names mean either drink, or so the article presently says, in a very confusing way.
This needs to be clearer. Either say either term can refer to either float, or pick one color per soda. In all likelihood, in the same place the two terms mean different things, but from region to region the colors switch meanings. But I've never personally heard either drink referred to as anything other than a float, so I don't think I'm the one to do the clarifying. Someone with personal experience want to give it a go?
Floats are also known as (and perhaps more commonly known as) spiders in Australia. Perhaps there should be some mention of names for floats in other countries. -- Colourblind 02:27, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I am particularly interested in the origin of "black cow" for a special reason. When I was a kid (in Norway) there was a soft drink called Hires that I don't remember much about but I suppose it must have been green - the back of the label had a recipe for a dessert called Green Horse which was basically an ice cream float made with Hires. Our family became quite fond of the sweet cold dessert, and when Hires got discontinued we tried to find a substitute and ended up using Coke. The first time we had this new mix, my father decided we couldn't call it Green Horse any more, so he came up with a new name. You guessed it - Black Cow. For all these years I have thought he made it up and only we knew about it. Then I came here today and found this article using the term. Either the explanation is in the section heading, or he must have picked it up somewhere, or somehow his invention made it out into the big world... 130.67.140.148 18:29, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
I don't know what this variation is called (if anything), but at a party I had a root beer float served with a shot of Bailey's in it. I wonder if this should be mentioned. It was VERY good by the way. :) Danarchy 07:46, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
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Could someone verify that chocolate ice cream foams significantly MORE THAN vanilla. Even with vanilla, the root beer foams enormously...I don't think it's the flavor; it's a root beer trait. Kaz 16:27, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Rmhermen 22:13, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
In New England, or at least Massachusetts, a Black Cow is not a root beer float, but root beer blended with vanilla ice cream.
In Oklahoma a Brown Cow is milk or ice cream blended with Coke, and sometimes chocolate syrup. A black cow is just a cow that is black.
I was actually told that a Black Cow is a root beer float done with chocolate ice cream instead of vanilla. Is this a legitimate application of this term or what? Danarchy 07:43, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
do you know why a root beer float foams?
The Cripple Creek story tells us the original root beer float was dubbed a Black Cow, and the Variations section says a Coke float is also called this. So Black means either Coke or root beer. But the first part of the article says Brown Cow also means either Coke or root beer (though this may be a result of confusion between "former" and "latter"). So both names mean either drink, or so the article presently says, in a very confusing way.
This needs to be clearer. Either say either term can refer to either float, or pick one color per soda. In all likelihood, in the same place the two terms mean different things, but from region to region the colors switch meanings. But I've never personally heard either drink referred to as anything other than a float, so I don't think I'm the one to do the clarifying. Someone with personal experience want to give it a go?
Floats are also known as (and perhaps more commonly known as) spiders in Australia. Perhaps there should be some mention of names for floats in other countries. -- Colourblind 02:27, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
I am particularly interested in the origin of "black cow" for a special reason. When I was a kid (in Norway) there was a soft drink called Hires that I don't remember much about but I suppose it must have been green - the back of the label had a recipe for a dessert called Green Horse which was basically an ice cream float made with Hires. Our family became quite fond of the sweet cold dessert, and when Hires got discontinued we tried to find a substitute and ended up using Coke. The first time we had this new mix, my father decided we couldn't call it Green Horse any more, so he came up with a new name. You guessed it - Black Cow. For all these years I have thought he made it up and only we knew about it. Then I came here today and found this article using the term. Either the explanation is in the section heading, or he must have picked it up somewhere, or somehow his invention made it out into the big world... 130.67.140.148 18:29, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
I don't know what this variation is called (if anything), but at a party I had a root beer float served with a shot of Bailey's in it. I wonder if this should be mentioned. It was VERY good by the way. :) Danarchy 07:46, 24 September 2007 (UTC)