Black Cow?
I am trying to determine what exactly a Black Cow is. I think it's a like a root beer float, which I thought was a Brown Cow, so I wanted to know if there is anything that makes a BLACK Cow special.
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10 Comments:
Maybe it's the additionof a shot of chocolate sauce?
tusti at 10:58AM on 08/20/09
they are the same thing, just called different names in different places.
goodcooker at 11:07AM on 08/20/09
I alway thought a Black Cow was made with Coke and vanilla ice cream. A Brown Cow is a root beer float.
duncan1205 at 11:28AM on 08/20/09
As a bartender I knew:
Brown Cow = Kaluah and Milk
Black Cow = Kaluah and Cola
Non-liquor version I believe is a Cola (not rootbeer) float.
I may be wrong tho.
hungrychristel at 11:31AM on 08/20/09
We used to call vallilla ice cream floating in root beer a Black Cow. That was back in the 1950s. The only time I used the term "brown cow" was when I put "how now" before it.
SavtaShayna at 12:56PM on 08/20/09
I don't understand why you have to get all racial. But I think its a large black woman.
happyeats at 5:49PM on 08/20/09
A black cow in my youth was a root beer float. I'm with Savta on the brown cow - only with "how now"
I've never thought about why, but I suppose when you add ice cream to the nearly black root beer it looks like a large white spot on a black cow. Think Ben and Jerry's.
lemonfair at 7:08AM on 08/21/09
@happyeats: thank you for making my morning :) LOL
hungrychristel at 10:02AM on 08/21/09
happyeats: Not to call the kettle -er- the cow black, and I don't want to reflect negatively on any one's race or ethnicity, but if you're going there, I guess I'd have to be thought of as the "Jewish cow" (I gotta lose some weight!)
SavtaShayna at 11:12AM on 08/21/09
Yup worked at a soda fountain for years -brown cow- rootbeer float black cow- coke float -blk and white milkshake is a chocolate milkshake made with vanilla ice cream and choc. syrup thie list goes on and on ;)
pamstar at 4:12PM on 08/21/09