 An ice-cream float | |
| Alternative names | Ice cream float, Coke float, root beer float, spider |
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| Type | Beverage |
| Place of origin | United States |
| Created by | Robert McCay Green |
| Main ingredients | Ice cream; soft drink, or syrup and carbonated water |
An ice cream float is a beverage. It has ice cream in either a soft drink or in a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water. It can also be called 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).