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{{Short description|Soft drink with ice cream}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox food | name = Ice cream float | image = Soda jerk NYWTS.jpg | caption = A [[soda jerk]] passing ice cream soda between two soda fountains in 1936 | alternate_name = Ice cream soda, Coke float, root beer float, spider | country = [[United States]] | region = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] | creator = Robert McCay Green | course = | type = [[Dessert]] | served = | main_ingredient = [[Ice cream]], [[syrup]] and [[soft drink]] or [[carbonated water]] | variations = | calories = | other = }} An '''ice cream float''' or '''ice cream soda''', also known as an '''ice cream spider''' in [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]],<ref>"spider, n.4" ''The Oxford English Dictionary''. 2nd ed. 1989. [[OED Online]]. Oxford University Press.</ref> 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).<ref>{{cite news|last1=Wenzl|first1=Megan|title=The Hidden History of Root Beer Floats in Chicago|url=http://chicago.eater.com/2015/9/15/9261695/root-beer-floats-chicago-history-5-outstanding|access-date=April 26, 2016|publisher=Chicago Eater}}</ref> A close variation is the '''coke float''', which is made using [[cola]].
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