egg cream
noun
: a sweetened drink made with milk or cream and other ingredients
especially
: a drink consisting of milk, a flavoring syrup, and soda water
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Those thirsty from the dance floor can enjoy a make-your-own egg cream station from Brooklyn Seltzer Museum, sip on thematic cocktails, nosh on snacks from Lilistar and more Dirty Dancing themed fun.
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Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The pizzeria also offers lentil and pasta fagioli soups, salads, al dente spaghetti with meatballs, espresso and egg creams.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 2025
Around The Clock Egg Cream From Around The Clock Diner in New Jersey, the egg cream may be a diner classic, but this take elevates it with a boozy twist.
—Aly Walansky, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
As outré, or even profane, as dirty soda might sound, there are plenty of precedents: ice-cream floats; Italian sodas; egg creams, which despite the name contain only seltzer, chocolate or vanilla syrup, and milk.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
That walk for me was down 13th Street between Avenues A and B and onto St Mark's to get an egg cream from Gem Spa.
—Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Sep. 2024
Keep it simple with a Herbert’s Fave — a classic pastrami and coleslaw — and the egg cream, a must.
—Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
The school’s name is a local misnomer on the order of the egg cream.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
The third course is either an egg cream puff or tuxedo cake.
—Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
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Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The pizzeria also offers lentil and pasta fagioli soups, salads, al dente spaghetti with meatballs, espresso and egg creams.
—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 17 May 2025
Around The Clock Egg Cream From Around The Clock Diner in New Jersey, the egg cream may be a diner classic, but this take elevates it with a boozy twist.
—Aly Walansky, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
As outré, or even profane, as dirty soda might sound, there are plenty of precedents: ice-cream floats; Italian sodas; egg creams, which despite the name contain only seltzer, chocolate or vanilla syrup, and milk.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
That walk for me was down 13th Street between Avenues A and B and onto St Mark's to get an egg cream from Gem Spa.
—Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Sep. 2024
Keep it simple with a Herbert’s Fave — a classic pastrami and coleslaw — and the egg cream, a must.
—Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
The school’s name is a local misnomer on the order of the egg cream.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
The third course is either an egg cream puff or tuxedo cake.
—Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024
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“Egg cream.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/egg%20cream. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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