Portable ice cream floats with the Fizz Cup
Delicious, but unportable, the ice cream float is one of the few summer pleasures that food scientists have proven completely incapable of reproducing in bottle form. Every once and a while, the sages of Coca Cola or Pepsi or ABC will claim to have come up with the secret, only to slap a picture of a cartoon hugel of ice cream on the label and serve up a foul slime infused with so much chemical vanilla that a single sip causes the mucus membrane to melt away like a Fruit Roll-up dipped in toxic waste.
Over at the Mother Boing, our Cory spotted the Fizz Cup, an ingenious accessory to correct the shortcomings of the beverage industry through excellence of design. You simply scoop a mound of ice cream into the Fizz Cup and snap the top onto a bottle of Coke or Root Beer. Instant ice cream float satisfaction. Genius. And at £6.95, cheap enough for the impulse buy.
Fizz Cup [Firebox via Boing Boing]
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Gin floats.
Use a mixture of Gin and lemonade and Vanilla ice cream. Yum.
Sooooo not new.
Back in the early '60s as a kid I had a plastic sphere with a tube on the top and bottom. The sphere split in the middle and you put ice cream in it, the bottom tube went in a Coke or Pepsi bottle and the top tube was used as a straw.
Sometimes the ice cream would react to the Coke causing excess foam and the sphere would pop apart making a bit of a mess.
$15??? Mine probably was less than $1....
You aren't serious about putting icec ream into Coca-Cola... Are you? Seriously? As in? Pepsi? Or even worse - root beer?
Man, Americans are weird. :)
Gilowyn: Oh you kids. The Coke Float used to be a staple of the Wimpy menu in the 70s, in the days before McDonalds and Burger King invaded British high streets and took away the idea of eating food from proper plates and drinking out of actual glasses. A coke float really needs a scoop of vanilla icecream from a tub in a sundae glass, although Mr Whippy style soft ice cream will work if sufficiently cold. The combination of fizzy coke and Wall's finest is a sublime treat on a summer's day.