PrintMilkshake terminology
All this talk about shakes reminds me that there are lots of names for them and their near-kin. When I was growing up in rural Missouri, they were malts, and they really did contain malt. No one seemed to order them as a shake, although I saw it on menus and wall signs. So what about cabinets and frappes (and is it "fraps" or "fra-PAYS", please?) and all their related names and contents?
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8 Comments:
Frappe is pronounced FRAP (no "pay"). And a cabinet, which is the specialty here in Rhode Island, is the same, with coffee syrup. Here's the recipe for a cabinet: Add two scoops of coffee ice cream and 1/4 cup coffee syrup to an 8-ounce glass of milk. Process in a blender until thick and creamy.
Lydia at 11:27AM on 07/26/07
they're fraps in Boston. Way confusing.
miz_dj at 2:55PM on 07/26/07
While I was growing up, my family was way into malts. We called them "malts," not "malteds," and, yes, as Lemons wrote, they did contain malt in the form of Carnation malted milk powder. I knew about shakes—who didn't?—but they were basically malts without the malt and therefore vastly inferior. I'm kinda craving a malt now. I think I'll make one when I go home. Thanks for starting this topic, Lemon!
Adam Kuban at 4:05PM on 07/26/07
Malts are far superior to milkshakes any day of the week. I'm a firm believer that any milkshake or malted must be served a) with the straw standing straight up due to thickness and b)with the extra milkshake in the metal container on the side. Pure deliciousness.
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handtomouth at 6:12PM on 07/26/07
Well, they shouldn't be so thick you can't drink them through a straw, IMHO. There's a frozen place here in St. Louis that makes them so thick, they're ordered as "concretes" and served upside down with a spoon stuck in them. Those were the inspiration for the Dairy Queen Blizzard.
And perhaps this should be over in the favorite flavor question, but ours always came, at one drugstore soda fountain in town, with a small tin of nutmeg alongside. Anyone recognize this as happening where they live/d?
lemons at 8:51PM on 07/26/07
Okay, so what the heck is a "phosphate"? (Anyone who read "Our Town" hit that one, so that means anyone who went to Junior high school)>
crackblind at 12:44PM on 07/27/07
Yep, It's Frap in Boston. Comes from the French word "To Beat".
My other favorite Boston word is "tonic" which means, soda.
samablog at 4:38PM on 07/27/07
Frappes (fraps) are drinkable. They are not supposed to be "any milkshake or malted must be served a) with the straw standing straight up."
A New England "frappe" and a RI "cabinet," as I understand them, need not becoffee flavored. They are ice cream, syryup and milk, what the Flatlanders call a mikshake. A milkshake is New England is milk and syrup without ice cream, which is apparently unknown in the Great Middle.
Lastly, in New England, a "plain" soda is an ice cream soda without ice cream, that is, milk or creamm syrup and soda water. The term "soda" in the 50s and earlier never referred to carbonated soft drinks - they were all ":tonics."
CapeCodBob at 7:16AM on 08/04/07