sabinelagrande | Ice cream!

You see, what happened was that I wrote this fluffy Clint/Coulson story about ice cream. And apparently, dear readers, people seemed to like it. And then this happened:

(11:52:44 PM) sabinelagrande: just went to the store because I REALLY NEEDED a coke float. one away from 100 kudos on the ice cream story. if I hit it, should I drink two ice cream sodas in celebration?:
(11:55:32 PM) dizmo: Yes you should.

I wasn't expecting it to happen so fast, but then, thanks to some people it did. And I told tumblr about it, so then I had to do it. One does not break a promise to tumblr (more than two or three times a day).

But then it occurred to me that 1) I hadn't had an ice cream soda in, like, ten years 2) I'd never actually made one for myself. So it became, like, an actual challenge. So I have documented my challenge/reward for your pleasure/benefit.

To begin to make an ice cream soda, one must gather one's ingredients.

Vanilla ice cream, a spoon, soda water, a chilled glass, a milkshake straw that, surprisingly, came in a package that did not advertise its wackiness, and strawberry syrup. All these things should be as cold as possible- except the spoon, I guess. Let me state now that if you see an "ice cream soda" recipe, and it calls for milk or half and half, that is not an ice cream soda. That is an egg cream. Half the internet is blissfully unaware of this, and the other half is VERY ADAMANT about it.

First step is to fill the bottom of the glass with syrup.

In this step, I also learned that strawberry syrup is not nearly as thick as I thought it was.

Then, add soda water and stir. The soda should come far enough up the glass for a scoop of ice cream to fit. These glasses have a handy line around them, but you need, like, idk, maybe an inch and a half of headroom.

I learned that it needs WAY more syrup than I expected. In the picture here, the soda is light pink, when it should be red. But, w/e, I just squirted more in from the top after I put the ice cream in and it was fine.

An ice cream soda is constructed in exactly the opposite way as a Coke float (or a root beer float, for those of you with no traditional tastes). The ice cream goes on the top, and then SCIENCE OCCURS.

The soda water reacts with the ice cream and foams a head, which is the most delicious part, obvs.

Here is the finished product. You can see how big the head gets- this was maybe a minute later, and it got bigger.

And then the inevitable happened.

So the vanilla/strawberry combination gets high praise from me. Very delicious.

For the second go-round, I decided to get ~fancy~. There's no wrong combination of flavors for an ice cream soda (though I suspect if you used ice cream with chunks it would only end in tears), so I decided to try coffee and chocolate.

So once again, we gather the incredients.

Everything is done exactly by the same method: syrup, soda, ice cream.

You will note, however, that this one didn't develop nearly as good of a head. I suspect that is because I had to stir it a lot more to get the syrup to distribute in the soda, so the soda lost a lot of oomph. This one was okay, but not nearly as good as the strawberry and vanilla. Part of the problem was that it was sort of grainy, which I put down to the store-bought syrup. With a thinner homemade variety, I think this would be orgasmic.

But I still demolished it.

So the ice cream soda experiment gets my seal of approval.

Also receiving my seal of approval are the 100 (ONE HUNDRED) people who find my silliness charming, as I am told it is, despite my best efforts.

And yes, it did take a long time for this to come off my hand.

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