Old-fashioned Ice Cream Sodas
We make our ice cream sodas the old-fashioned, served with whipped cream and a cherry. 24 oz soda (made by hand) topped with whipped cream and a cherry. You can select any flavor of ice cream.
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Chocolate
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Vanilla>
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Strawberry
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Custom Flavor*
Ice Cream Floats
Ice cream combined with soda.
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Coke/ Diet Coke
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Sprite
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Root Beer
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Custom Flavor*
New York Egg Cream (What is it?)
Chocolate or Vanilla syrup mixed with milk and seltzer water.
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Chocolate
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Vanilla
Soda
Coke / Diet Coke, Sprite,Root Beer, Custom Flavor*
small (12oz) | medium (16oz) | large (24oz)
*any of our 18 syrup flavors
Italian Espresso (Lavazza )
single shot | double shot
Ice Cream Soda History
The ice cream soda was invented by Robert McCay Green in Philadelphia, PA, in 1874[2] during the sesquicentennial celebration. The traditional story is that, on a particularly hot day, Mr. Green ran out of cold ice for the flavored sodas 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 sodas. Green’s will instructed that “Originator of the Ice Cream Soda” was to be engraved on his tombstone.
At Justine’s Oc you will find a selection of hot and cold drink. We offer Coca Cola products. We highly recommend to try our refreshing New York Egg Cream (made the old-fashioned way) and in-house made Lemonade.
What is Egg Cream?
An egg cream is a beverage consisting of milk, and soda water as well as vanilla or chocolate syrup, and is especially associated with Brooklyn, home of its alleged inventor, late 19th-century candy store owner Louis Auster. Most modern versions of the drink contain neither eggs nor cream.
The egg cream is almost exclusively a fountain drink. Although there have been several attempts to bottle it, none has been wholly successful, as its fresh taste and characteristic head require mixing of the ingredients just before drinking.