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An ice cream float or soda (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and East Asia), coke float (United Kingdom), root beer float (United States, Canada) or spider (Australia and New Zealand), is a beverage that consists of ice cream in either a soft drink or in a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water.
ORIGIN
The ice cream float was invented by Robert McCay Green in Philadelphia, PA, in 1874 during the Franklin Institute's semicentennial celebration. The traditional story is that, on a particularly hot day, Mr. Green ran out of cold ice for the flavored drinks he was selling and used vanilla ice cream from a neighboring vendor, thus inventing a new drink.
His own account, published in Soda Fountain magazine in 1910, states that while operating a soda fountain at the Franklin Institute's semicentennial celebration in Philadelphia in 1874, he wanted to create a new treat to attract customers away from another vendor who had a fancier, bigger soda fountain. After some experimenting, he decided to combine ice cream and soda water. During the celebration, he sold vanilla ice cream with soda water and a choice of 16 different flavored syrups. The new treat was a sensation and soon other soda fountains began selling ice cream floats. Green's will instructed that "Originator of the Ice Cream Soda" was to be engraved on his tombstone.
There are at least three other claimants for the invention of ice cream float: Fred Sanders, Philip Mohr, and George Guy, one of Robert Green's own employees.Guy is said to have absent-mindedly mixed ice cream and soda in 1872, much to his customer's delight.
Regardless of its origins, the beverage quickly became very popular, to such a degree that it was almost socially obligatory among teens, although many adults did not like it. According to some accounts, it was banned, either entirely or on holy days, by some local governments, giving rise to a substitute treat, the sodaless ice cream sundae. As carbonated drinks were marketed as a miracle cure, they were often considered a substance that required oversight and control like alcohol, another controlled substance that could not be served or purchased on Sundays in many conservative areas. Many soda fountains had to figure out a way to turn a profit on Sundays when selling their product was considered illegal.The solution was to serve ice cream on these days, as it is merely a food product and not a controlled substance. Soda fountains then coined the term "Sundaes" for the ice cream concoctions that they served on "soda's day of rest".
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flōt/
verb
verb: float; 3rd person present: floats; past tense: floated; past participle: floated; gerund or present participle: floating
1.
rest or move on or near the surface of a liquid without sinking.
"she relaxed, floating gently in the water"
synonyms: stay afloat, stay on the surface, be buoyant, be buoyed up
"oil floats on water"
antonyms: sink
cause (a buoyant object) to rest or move on the surface of a liquid without sinking.
"trees were felled and floated downstream"
be suspended freely in a liquid or gas.
"fragments of chipped cartilage floated in the joint"
2.
move or hover slowly and lightly in a liquid or the air; drift.
"clouds floated across a brilliant blue sky"
synonyms: hover, levitate, be suspended, hang, defy gravity More
antonyms: rush
(of a rumor, idea, etc.) circulate.
"the notion was floating around Capitol Hill"
(of a sight or idea) come before the eyes or mind.
"the advice his father had given him floated into his mind"
(in sports) make (the ball) travel lightly and effortlessly through the air.
"he floated the kick into the net"
3.
put forward (an idea) as a suggestion or test of reactions.
synonyms: suggest, put forward, come up with, submit, moot, propose, advance, test the popularity of; informal run something up the flagpole (to see who salutes)
"they have just floated that idea"
antonyms: withdraw
offer the shares of (a company) for sale on the stock market for the first time.
4.
(of a currency) fluctuate freely in value in accordance with supply and demand in the financial markets.
"a policy of letting the pound float"
allow (a currency) to fluctuate in value.
noun
noun: float; plural noun: floats
1.
a thing that is buoyant in water, in particular.
a small object attached to a fishing line to indicate by moving when a fish bites.
a cork or buoy supporting the edge of a fishing net.
a hollow or inflated organ enabling an organism (such as the Portuguese man-of-war) to float in the water.
a hollow structure fixed underneath an aircraft enabling it to take off and land on water.
a device floating on the surface of a liquid that forms part of a valve apparatus controlling flow in and out of the enclosing container, e.g., in a toilet tank or a carburetor.
2.
a platform mounted on a truck and carrying a display in a parade.
"a carnival float"
3.
a hand tool with a rectangular blade used for smoothing plaster or concrete.
4.
NORTH AMERICAN
a soft drink with a scoop of ice cream floating in it.
"root-beer floats"
5.
(in critical path analysis) the period of time by which the duration of an activity may be extended without affecting the overall time for the process.
Origin
question
1.
To float, or not to float, that is the question.
flōt/
verb
verb: float; 3rd person present: floats; past tense: floated; past participle: floated; gerund or present participle: floating
1.
rest or move on or near the surface of a liquid without sinking.
"she relaxed, floating gently in the water"
synonyms: stay afloat, stay on the surface, be buoyant, be buoyed up
"oil floats on water"
antonyms: sink
cause (a buoyant object) to rest or move on the surface of a liquid without sinking.
"trees were felled and floated downstream"
be suspended freely in a liquid or gas.
"fragments of chipped cartilage floated in the joint"
2.
move or hover slowly and lightly in a liquid or the air; drift.
"clouds floated across a brilliant blue sky"
synonyms: hover, levitate, be suspended, hang, defy gravity More
antonyms: rush
(of a rumor, idea, etc.) circulate.
"the notion was floating around Capitol Hill"
(of a sight or idea) come before the eyes or mind.
"the advice his father had given him floated into his mind"
(in sports) make (the ball) travel lightly and effortlessly through the air.
"he floated the kick into the net"
3.
put forward (an idea) as a suggestion or test of reactions.
synonyms: suggest, put forward, come up with, submit, moot, propose, advance, test the popularity of; informal run something up the flagpole (to see who salutes)
"they have just floated that idea"
antonyms: withdraw
offer the shares of (a company) for sale on the stock market for the first time.
4.
(of a currency) fluctuate freely in value in accordance with supply and demand in the financial markets.
"a policy of letting the pound float"
allow (a currency) to fluctuate in value.
noun
noun: float; plural noun: floats
1.
a thing that is buoyant in water, in particular.
a small object attached to a fishing line to indicate by moving when a fish bites.
a cork or buoy supporting the edge of a fishing net.
a hollow or inflated organ enabling an organism (such as the Portuguese man-of-war) to float in the water.
a hollow structure fixed underneath an aircraft enabling it to take off and land on water.
a device floating on the surface of a liquid that forms part of a valve apparatus controlling flow in and out of the enclosing container, e.g., in a toilet tank or a carburetor.
2.
a platform mounted on a truck and carrying a display in a parade.
"a carnival float"
3.
a hand tool with a rectangular blade used for smoothing plaster or concrete.
4.
NORTH AMERICAN
a soft drink with a scoop of ice cream floating in it.
"root-beer floats"
5.
(in critical path analysis) the period of time by which the duration of an activity may be extended without affecting the overall time for the process.
Origin