An egg cream is a beverage consisting of milk, carbonated water, and chocolate syrup. The drink contains neither eggs nor cream.
Yeah, sounds lovely. Watered down fizzy chocolate milk.
We used to have a Sodastream a loooong time ago. I remember one of the mixtures being something called “Intergalactic Space Juice”.
That sounds disgusting. I’ll come up with a better version in the cooking thread.
Carbonated egg nog/snowball?
Close. I’m weighing textures in my head.
I do agree with you… but what I don’t get is this; The factory had been there for 20 years. I don’t understand why it suddenly was terrible. Was it ok for 19 years but that 20th year it had to go?
I know quite a few people that went and bought SodaStreams only AFTER the company was forced to shut that one plant…
BDS wasn’t as strong a movement, and became much more relevant as other options dried up. The fact is that the Israeli government has become increasingly intransigent and bellicose (c.f. Bibi’s delightful remarks about Palestinians inspiring the Holocaust) and it’s made the BDS issue more pressing. If we’re talking about SodaStream, it became particularly salient since it’s a very visible consumer product that quickly became an actionable issue. Try getting people to boycott Israel Military Industries, for instance: How many people do you know who have Uzis? But you go into any American or Canadian department store, or mall, and there’s a SodaStream demo or ad. As a target, it also had the benefit of being in a shaky legal position- which made it a good issue to push for people squeamish about being a part of BDS more generally. In other words, it was never not a problem, but getting people to see the problem took at least twenty years.
It’s basically just a Yoohoo with fizzy water. #heresy
It’s not gross, it’s just a watery chocolate milk. If I see that someone offers them I just get a lime rickey instead and wonder why egg creams still exist.
start with kumis (or a similar slightly fizzy and alcoholic milk product)?
Thank you for the tips - unfortunately the stainless grade used in soda kegs doesn’t seem to be built for salt environments (the acidity obviously doesn’t hurt it at all). The pinholes have been right at the bottom, so I have some hopes that changing my process from pouring it in and letting it sink to the bottom and dissolve slowly to dissolving in a cup of hot water and dumping that into the keg will make a difference in longevity.
Another thought. Line the vessel with a barrier layer. A good example is the beverage cans - they are made of aluminium that’s quite susceptible to corrosion, and filled with stuff that will eat through metals with gusto. A layer of resin is used to coat their inner side. (And a pinhole will lead to a can failure. Which will spray its content around, and then lead to serial failure of other cans, as especially the crack line around the tab is very weak by design and unprotected from the outside.)
Try to coat the inside with e.g. some food grade epoxy or polyurethane or other suitable barrier?
Edit: Another possibility is putting the salt into a small container inside the big one, so the localized high concentration around the dissolving grains is not in direct contact with the steel of the main vessel.
Ah, but it’s more complicated than that.
The chocolate syrup HAS to be Fox’s U-Bet brand. Nothing else is correct.
And the milk needs to be whole milk. From a cow.
Weirdly, they don’t really taste watery… the huge head of foam they build comes across as super creamy, and they don’t sit in your stomach like a lead weight.
My 5 year old daughter LOVES them. I’m a fan, too.
it still sounds gross
False.
You can have mine. I’m sticking with lime rickeys.
Lime rickeys are good too. In fact, I’ve got a bit of a thing for all manner of semi-obscure old fountain drinks. Old/weird soda, too, on occasion.
I always wanted to (but never had the time) to do a lime rickey with home made lime soda and raspberry puree, but I’d run the puree through a spherification process- so it’d be soda with all these beautiful red pearls of delicious hanging out in it…
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