Editing Ice cream float (section)

==Variations==
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Variations of ice cream floats are as countless as the varieties of drinks and the flavors of ice cream, but some have become more prominent than others. <!-- Please keep this list limited to notable dishes only. Additionally, please keep list in alphabetical order. -->

===Butterbeer===
In 2014, [[The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Universal Orlando Resort)|The Wizarding World of Harry Potter]] themed area at the [[Universal Orlando|Universal Orlando Resort]] debuted the drink composed of the ingredients [[brown sugar]] and [[butter|butter syrup]] mixed with [[cream soda]] and [[whipped cream]] based on the [[Fictional universe of Harry Potter#Food and leisure|originally fictional drink]] [[Places in Harry Potter#Hogsmeade|served at Hogsmeade]]. In 2016, [[Starbucks]] debuted the ''Smoked Butterbeer Frappuccino Latte''.<ref>{{citeweb|url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a15336139/starbucks-smoked-butterscotch-latte-butterbeer/|title=Starbucks Is Bringing Back Its Smoked Butterscotch Latte (Which Tastes Just Like Butterbeer)|last=Barbour|first=Shannon|publisher=[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]|date=Jan 17, 2018|access-date=September 20, 2024}}</ref>

===Beer float===
[[File:Beer float.jpg|thumb|A beer float]]

A beer float is made of Guinness stout, chocolate ice cream, and espresso.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Thirsty Reader: A Guinness Milkshake |url=https://www.thekitchn.com/post-14-45288 |website=Kitchn}}</ref> Although the Shakin' Jesse version<ref>{{Cite web |title=Emeryville &#124; Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe |url=http://iamrudy.com/drinks/emeryville/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614071914/http://iamrudy.com/drinks/emeryville/ |archive-date=June 14, 2012 |access-date=July 8, 2012}}</ref> is blended into more of a milkshake consistency, most restaurant bars can make the beer float version.

===Boston cooler===
[[File:Boston Cooler.jpg|thumb|upright|A Boston cooler with Vernors ginger ale]]

Today, a Boston cooler is typically composed of [[Vernors]] ginger ale and vanilla ice cream.<ref name="wcrz">{{cite news |last=Fenech |first=Jeremy |date=September 26, 2012 |title=What is a Boston Cooler? |url=http://wcrz.com/what-is-a-boston-cooler/ |access-date=April 6, 2013 |newspaper=wcrz}}</ref>

The first reference to a Boston cooler appears in the [[St. Louis Post Dispatch]] where a New York bartender claimed to have coined the phrase for a summer cocktail of [[Sarsaparilla (soft drink) |sarsaparilla]] and ginger ale. In the 1910s, the term was applied in soda fountains and ice cream parlors to a scoop of ice cream served in a melon half. The name was also applied to a number of different ice-cream float combinations, including [[root beer]], though ginger ale became the most common soft drink component. <ref>{{cite web |last=Newman |first=Eli |date=July 25, 2016 |title=CuriosiD: What's the Origin of the Boston Cooler? |url=https://wdet.org/2016/07/25/curiosid-whats-the-origin-of-the-boston-cooler/ |access-date=March 1, 2023 |website=WDET.org |publisher=WDET and Wayne State University}}</ref>   

By the 1880s a version of the Boston cooler was being served in Detroit by [[Sanders Confectionery]], made with Sanders' ice cream and Vernors.<ref name="wcrz" /> Originally, a drink called a Vernors Cream was served as a shot or two of sweet cream poured into a glass of Vernors. Later, vanilla ice cream was substituted for the cream and blended like a [[milkshake]]. The local myth, that it was named after Detroit's Boston Boulevard, is belied by the fact that Boston Boulevard did not exist at the time.<ref>{{cite web |date=August 31, 2007 |title=Griffin, Holly, "FIVE THINGS: About coolers" ''Detroit Free Press'' (August 31, 2007) |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32766171_ITM |access-date=February 13, 2010 |publisher=Accessmylibrary.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=June 20, 2008 |title="Daily TWIP: Ice Cream Soda Day", ''Nashua Telegraph'' (June 20, 2008) |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NTGB&p_theme=ntgb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1216F2F3F4A48060&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |access-date=February 13, 2010 |publisher=Nl.newsbank.com}}</ref><ref>[http://www.historicbostonedison.org/history.shtml "History"]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070910210550/http://www.historicbostonedison.org/history.shtml|date=September 10, 2007}}, ''Historic Boston Edison Association''</ref>

It remains a popular summer drink in the Detroit area.<ref name="wcrz" />

===Chocolate ice cream soda===
This ice cream soda starts with approximately 1 oz of [[chocolate syrup]], then several scoops of chocolate ice cream in a tall glass. Unflavored [[carbonated water]] is added until the glass is filled and the resulting foam rises above the top of the glass. The final touch is a topping of [[whipped cream]] and usually, a [[maraschino cherry]]. This variation of ice cream soda was available at local [[soda fountain]]s and nationally, at [[Dairy Queen]] stores for many years.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}

A similar soda made with chocolate syrup but vanilla ice cream is sometimes called a "black and white" ice cream soda.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}

=== Cream soda ===
[[File:Creamsoda Ueshima1.jpg|thumb|right|203x203px|A Japanese style cream soda in [[UCC Ueshima Coffee Co.|Ueshima coffee shop]]]]In Japan, an ice cream float known as a cream soda is made with vanilla ice cream and [[melon soda]], often topped with a single [[maraschino cherry]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Garcia |first=Krista |date=2018-12-18 |title=The Emerald Green Drink of 1970s Japan |url=https://tastecooking.com/emerald-green-drink-1970s-japan/ |access-date=2024-04-28 |website=TASTE |language=en-US}}</ref>

===''Helado flotante''===
In Mexico, popular versions are made from coca-cola with coconut and [[Kahlúa]] ice cream, from chocolate coca-cola with vanilla ice cream, and from red wine with lemon ice cream.<ref>https://www.timeoutmexico.mx/ciudad-de-mexico/restaurantes-cafes/top-5-flotantes {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>

===Nectar soda===
This variant is popular in [[New Orleans]] and parts of [[Ohio]], made with a syrup consisting of equal parts almond and vanilla syrups mixed with sweetened [[condensed milk]] and a touch of red food coloring to produce a pink, opalescent syrup base for the soda.<ref>{{cite book |last=Woellert |first=D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jB83DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA64 |title=Cincinnati Candy: A Sweet History |publisher=Arcadia Publishing (SC) |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-4671-3795-9 |series=American Palate |pages=64–65 |language=it |access-date=January 15, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Goldstein |first1=D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XPNgBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT848 |title=The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets |last2=Mintz |first2=S. |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-19-931362-4 |series=Oxford Companions |page=pt848 |access-date=January 15, 2019}}</ref>
===Purple cow===
In the context of ice cream soda, a purple cow is vanilla ice cream in purple grape soda. The Purple Cow,<ref>[http://www.purplecowlr.com/ The Purple Cow]</ref> a restaurant chain in the southern United States, features this and similar beverages. In a more general context, a purple cow may refer to a non-carbonated grape juice and vanilla ice cream combination. [[Grapico]], a brand of grape soda bottled in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], is ubiquitously linked to ice cream floats in that state.

The soda is named after [[Gelett Burgess]]'s 1895 nonsense poem [[Purple Cow]].

===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.

===Strawberry ice cream soda===
This drink is prepared similarly to a chocolate ice cream soda, but with [[strawberry syrup]] and strawberry (or vanilla) ice cream used instead.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}

===''Vaca amarela'' or ''vaca dourada''===
In Brazil, a ''vaca amarela'' (yellow cow) or ''vaca dourada''  (golden cow) is an ice cream soda combination of vanilla ice cream and orange or [[guaraná]] soda, respectively.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}

===''Vaca-preta''===
At least in [[Brazil]] and [[Portugal]], a non-alcoholic ice cream soda made by combining vanilla or chocolate ice cream and Coca-Cola is known as ''vaca-preta'' ("black cow").<ref>See article ''[[:pt:Vaca preta|Vaca preta]]'' at the Wikipedia in Portuguese. Retrieved September 17, 2012.</ref>