Egg Cream Soda's At Rosie's

As a kid growing up on the streets of the Lower East Side, there's one experience that I wish my kids could have had.  That experience was being served an Egg Cream soda drink from their favorite neighborhood convenience store like me and my generation had experienced.  Today there isn't any store you can walk into and buy penny candy, a box of jacks, a box of Cracker Jacks, Lays Potato Chips and paddle ball and then wash it all down with a Egg Cream soda served right from the fountain.

The Egg Creams were always served in a fancy drinking glass that were throwbacks to drinking glasses from the 1950's.  Every time you sat in Rosie's and had a drink, you always felt like you were going back in time to an earlier period in New York City history.

Rosie's is long gone from East 7th street.  But the art of making a good Egg Cream isn't gone.  The basic ingredients are still milk, seltzer and a good chocolate syrup.  There are various arguments on which ingredients that go in the glass first and which syrup that you should buy.  No matter how good or bad you made that egg cream...unless you have a nice, thick, old style glass to drink it from.

If anyone knows of any other ingredients that can be added to an Egg Cream outside of the ones above...please feel free to share.