# Ice cream floats **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872 "2016-07-01T16:50:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/1 "2016-07-01T16:50:34Z")
I like a classic root beer float, but I also like to mix things up sometimes. Birch beer and mint chocolate chip ice cream is one of my favorites. What are your favorite ice cream floats? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/2 "2016-07-01T16:53:26Z")
Root Beer for me. Vanilla ice cream. I’m pretty boring. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/3 "2016-07-01T17:01:51Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Root Beer for me. Vanilla ice cream. > > I’m pretty boring. This is The One True Float. Though I will admit to using _French_ vanilla when I feel like going crazy… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/4 "2016-07-01T17:06:45Z")
Vanilla ice cream and black cherry soda!!! Pardon my drool… ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/5 "2016-07-01T17:08:09Z")
Can’t go wrong with root beer and vanilla ice cream. Mountain Dew is good too. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/6 "2016-07-01T17:13:45Z")
Root beer (or birch beer) and butter brickle ice cream. French vanilla will do in a pinch. ---
**Author:** ![tenacious\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tenacious\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tenacious_j)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/7 "2016-07-01T18:01:20Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Vanilla ice cream and black cherry soda!!! Pardon my drool… If I venture away from root beer, this is the way to go. This, or Coke with cherry or cherry-vanilla ice cream. There’s something about cherrry. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/8 "2016-07-01T18:15:53Z")
Ice cream floats, but you have to drive 'em real fast along the parade route, or they’re just a big, sticky mess. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/9 "2016-07-01T19:15:28Z")
Root beer or Coca-Cola (not Pepsi) and regular vanilla. NOT soft-serve ice cream. I’ve tried other combos, but they aren’t good enough to compete with the original. I am eager to try one I heard suggested somewhere: Guinness and coffee ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/10 "2016-07-01T19:20:23Z")
It’s root beer and chocolate. Vanilla is OK but chocolate is better. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/11 "2016-07-01T19:50:37Z")
I grew up on coke and vanilla ice cream. As an adult, I came to appreciate root beer floats. I had an uncle whose favorite combo was vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, and carbonated water. Fruit sherbet and either sprite or ginger ale is also pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/12 "2016-07-01T19:53:04Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Fruit sherbet and either sprite or ginger ale is also pretty good. This is what I came to say. Cherry sherbet with lemon-lime soda or orange sherbet with ginger ale are very good. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/13 "2016-07-01T20:11:12Z")
It does in my experience. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/14 "2016-07-01T20:13:43Z")
Floats are disgusting. Just give me the ice cream, thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/15 "2016-07-01T20:22:24Z")
Orange juice and Rocky Road. Ha, just kidding. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/16 "2016-07-01T21:03:59Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I had an uncle whose favorite combo was vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, and carbonated water. That would be a chocolate ice cream soda. Nothing to do with floats. Spicy ginger ale like Blenheim’s or Vernor’s – not the dry pale booze mixers like Canada Dry or Schweppes – with vanilla ice cream is called a Boston Cooler, even though Vernor’s comes from Detroit and Blenheim’s from South Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/17 "2016-07-01T21:37:48Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > . . . I had an uncle whose favorite combo was vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, and carbonated water. . . . Now try that with Amaretto ice cream! Oooh, yumm! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/18 "2016-07-01T22:11:40Z")
A surprisingly good combination I discovered via a scarcity of ingredients: Mountain Dew and orange sherbet. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/19 "2016-07-01T22:12:58Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I had an uncle whose favorite combo was vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, and carbonated water. That’s basically an egg cream. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872/20 "2016-07-01T22:17:19Z")
Vanilla ice cream and _draft_ A&W root beer. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-cream-floats/758872.md?page=2)