Kate Connally > writes:

> Stan wrote:
> >
> > On 4/15/05 7:45 PM, in article ,
> > " > wrote:
> >
> > > When I was a kid, I used to get a truly wonderful soda fountain drink
> > > called a vanilla phosphate.
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell, this beverage seems to have vanished from the face
> > > of the Earth.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know where they may still be had?
> >
> > Phosphates are what we called 'em in the Midwest. New Yorkers know them
> > better as egg creams.
> >
> > -Stan
>
> Actually, an egg cream is different from a phosphate.
> A phosphate has only syrup and soda water. An egg cream
> has has milk in it and is only made with chocolate syrup.
> A phosphate can be made with any flavor syrup - vanilla
> phosphate, cherry phosphate, strawberry phosphate, or
> or chocolate phosphate. Those were the flavors available
> at the sode fountain I used to frequent when I was young.
> You could make any flavor you wanted if you had the syrup.
> Pineapple would be yummy!

My experience in New York is that egg creams come in
either chocolate or vanilla. In either case, the only
acceptable syrup brand is "Fox's U-Bet". (And it's
half-and-half, not milk. And seltzer.)