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Old 08-09-2020, 11:54 AM
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I grew up outside Albany, NY and we drank soda, not pop. Coffee was cawfee and dog was dawg. We ordered an ice cream soda - it was ice cream, syrup and carbonated water. Vanilla ice cream in root beer was a float. My Vermont cousins wokked the dog (short O) but they loved to make fun of my wauking the dawg. When I visited my Vermont cousins we went upstreet. Upstreet had a soft ice cream place. It was there you ordered a creamy.

I grew up in the Detroit area and Vernors and vanilla ice cream was called Boston Cooler. What did people in Boston call this drink?