Ice cream float
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An ice cream float or ice cream soda, also known as a spider in Australia and New Zealand,[1] is a chilled beverage that consists of ice cream in either a soft drink or a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water.
 Soda jerk from the 1930s passing ice cream soda between two soda fountains | |
| Alternative names | Ice cream soda, Coke float, root beer float, spider |
|---|---|
| Type | Dessert |
| Place of origin | United States |
| Region or state | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Created by | Robert McCay Green |
| Main ingredients | Ice cream, syrup and soft drink or carbonated water |
When root beer and vanilla ice cream are used together to make the beverage, it is typically referred to as a root beer float (United States[2] and Canada). A close variation is the coke float, using cola instead of root beer.