Ice cream sodas, which are also known as spiders, snowballs, coke floats and ice cream floats, largely depending on the country, are a drink that, to no great surprise, contains ice cream and a soft drink, the latter being the soda part of the name, or, alternatively, carbonated water and a flavoured syrup.
Supposedly invented in the late 19th century in Philadelphia by Robert McCay Green, after he ran out of ice to cool his drinks and instead started adding ice cream to them.
Ice cream sodas come in many different varieties, some more well known than others, and they are apparently responsible for the creation of the ice cream sundae, after the drink was banned on religious days.
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