Well, 'Spaw, that's not bad for an Ohioan. But an eggcream is composed of seltzer, milk, and U-Bet chocolate syrup. (At least, that's what this Philadelphia boy learned from a New Yorker--ain't no eggcreams in Philly, but we do know how to spell 'em). One eggcream recipe.

And "soda" is Coke, ginger ale, 7-Up, Frank's Black Cherry Wishniak, Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray, whatever. When you put a scoop of ice cream in a tall tapered glass partly filled with soda, you get an "ice cream soda." The classic "black and white" is chocolate flavored soda and vanilla ice cream. I always preferred a "white and black": vanilla cream soda (in Philly we had Frank's, in NY they had Dr. Brown's) with chocolate ice cream.

And as Mmario will tell you, people in Masach Massichusset Boston use the word "tonic" for what we more enlightened folks call "soda" and you Midwesterners call "pop"--not just for tonic water.

Aloha,
Mark