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===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" />