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From: "Drew Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] egg creams
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:39:55 -0500
References: <BLU102-DAV7C7C5305684D79BC2B671BC190@phx.gbl><20080226202549.3E99E7F4F9@dm.deskmedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080226202549.3E99E7F4F9@dm.deskmedia.com>

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Jean R. Legried <> wrote:
> The drink sounds yummy but I find the name to be yukky! Why that name
> when there is neither an egg nor cream in it?

Apparently, when the drink was first introduced, it did have eggs and
cream in it. From the OED: "any of various kinds of rich sweet drink
made orig. with eggs and milk or cream and more recently with milk,
soda water, and flavouring"

Drew Smith

This thread:

• [APG] egg creams by "Debra Braverman" <>
  • Re: [APG] egg creams by "robert mclaren" <>
    • Re: [APG] egg creams by Claire Keenan Agthe <>
      • Re: [APG] egg creams :-) so much for genealogy by philip thorne <>
        • Re: [APG] egg creams :-) so much for genealogy by Claire Keenan Agthe <>
          • Re: [APG] egg creams :-) so much for genealogy by philip thorne <>
  • [APG] Fw: egg creams by "Eileen M O'Duill" <>
    • Re: [APG] egg creams by
    • [APG] Drinks by "Elissa Scalise Powell, CG" <>
      • Re: [APG] Drinks by "Christine Sweet-Hart" <>
    • Re: [APG] Fw: egg creams by Claire Keenan Agthe <>
  • Re: [APG] egg creams by "Jean R. Legried" <>

    • Re: [APG] egg creams by "Drew Smith" <>