Editing Ice cream float (section)

===Root beer float===
[[File:Root Beer Float.jpg|thumb|upright|A root beer float]]

Also known as a "black cow"<ref name="blackcow">{{Cite web |title=The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19340810&id=GK9QAAAAIBAJ&pg=3644,4597898 |website=news.google.com}}{{Dead link|date=January 2023|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=December 14, 1931 |title=Letters, Dec. 14, 1931 |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,930017,00.html |magazine=Time |via=content.time.com}}</ref> or "brown cow",<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Cedartown Standard - Google News Archive Search |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=365&dat=19961024&id=jtcyAAAAIBAJ&pg=3018,4544198 |website=news.google.com}}</ref> the [[root beer]] float is traditionally made with vanilla ice cream and root beer, but it can also be made with other ice cream flavors. Frank J. Wisner, owner of Colorado's Cripple Creek Brewing, is credited with creating the first root beer float on August 19, 1893. The similarly flavored soft drink [[birch beer]] may also be used instead of root beer.

In the United States and Canada, the chain [[A&W Restaurants]] are well known for their root beer floats. The definition of a black cow varies by region. For instance, in some localities, a "root beer float" has strictly vanilla ice cream; a float made with root beer and chocolate ice cream is a "chocolate cow" or a "brown cow". In some places a "black cow" or a "brown cow" was made with [[cola]] instead of root beer.

In 2008, the [[Dr Pepper Snapple Group]] introduced its [[Floats (drink)|Float]] beverage line. This includes A&W Root Beer, A&W Cream Soda and [[Sunkist (soft drink)|Sunkist]] flavors which attempt to simulate the taste of their respective ice cream float flavors in a creamy, bottled drink.