After watching DOOL on tape the other day the TV was clicked on to the Food Network with the vile Rachel Ray doing her Rachel Ray thing. I think she was making some sorta ice cream float [because she's too cool for baking as she points out roughly every four minutes], but she was once more talking about her days as a fountain girl. This seems very old fashioned to me so I can only assume that Rachel Ray is a million years old and has some sort of evil pact going that allows her to continue to look young [and to continue to have like 87 TV programs, all of which suck]. Anyway, she mentioned something about egg creams. I had heard about egg creams, but naturally thought that they must be some sort of drinkable that involved egg [ew] and cream [ew]. My curiousity peaked, I turned to faithful Wikipedia to discover that an egg cream contains neither egg nor cream.
I still think it's probably an acquired taste. I acquired the ingredients after work today and then later on tonight I made and drank an egg cream. For the uninitiated an egg cream is a drink served in a tall, preferrably chilled glass. It is built with one inch of chocolate syrup, one inch of milk and then the rest is seltzer. Stir it up and enjoy. Errrr - that should be - *try* to enjoy. Because it's so very gross. For one, I don't enjoy ice cream floats @ all - much to my father's chagrin. And now that I've tried an egg cream I think I know why - because fizzy dairy products just shouldn't be. Very unpleasant on the senses and makes me think that something has gone horribly off.
[I just realized that I haven't mentioned MilkPop. MilkPop seems like it would have been a lot like the egg cream. It seems that my friends Seth and company were even more hip to urban flare than previously thought while growing up in small-town Ontario. I have just recieved an update that MilkPop was never successfully created. Concept is everything though.]
I only managed to down about half of the egg cream before turning back to pomegranate tea. However, the notion of egg creams being very New York made me think - what food can Toronto lay claim to? I think of many foods for NYC, Philadelphia has its cheesesteak, Montreal its poutine, Cincinnati its chili with cheddar, Seattle its coffee, Brussels its mussels [okay, and I guess its sprouts], London its fish and chips and even Denver has its omelette. I'm sure there are more cities out there with famous foods [and please tell me what they are if you know], but since Canadian cuisine is kinda...not entirely existent...and Toronto is a total immigrant city - we got nothing. What should Toronto's unofficial official food be? Suggestions please!
I actually have photos of the ill-fated egg cream[eeeee!], but I have to install the software on my femputer and stuff and I'm lazy. Watch this space though. I might become magically un-lazy.
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