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[rivkat]

Inquiring minds want to know: Is it still a milkshake if all you put in is ice cream, chocolate syrup, and alcohol?

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Comments

[zahrawithaz.livejournal.com]

It depends on where you are. In parts of the northeast USS, this would automatically be disqualified as a milkshake because it has ice cream in it. Around these parts, a milkshake is, believe it or not, shaken milk with flavoring.

If it has ice cream, it's a frappe in Massachusetts, and a cabinet in Rhode Island (where a coffee cabinet is in fact a drink). Maybe you could invent your own term!

[rivkat]

I feel so sorry for places that don't give you ice cream in your milkshake! Maybe my version is the mirror universe version of those.

I've never heard of an ice cream drink being described as a cabinet. Fascinating!

[veejane]

My mother called her favorite childhood drink as a "black and white." Not the drink featuring coffee liqueur, but milk and chocolate syrup and seltzer. I am to understand that a black and white is a specific subset of egg cream, which sounds to me like a bog-standard no-ice-cream milkshake.

I bet you could get egg creams and milkshakes in MA if you really wanted to (to say nothing of all the trademarked brands of milk-and-flavor slushies), but why bother, when you can get ice cream in a frappe?