cream soda

noun

1. a soft drink made with vanilla-flavored carbonated water colored brown with caramel.

cream soda

noun

1. a carbonated soft drink flavoured with vanilla

Word History and Origins

Origin of cream soda¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

“Prohibition made the chocolate ice cream soda the national drink,” declared a Wichita, Kansas, ice cream manufacturer in 1922.

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“Looks like Coke. Tastes like Diet Coke. That’s dangerous. Easy drinking. It has a cream soda aftertaste and very minor weed flavor,” said another.

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Long before there were even bottled colas — let alone TikTok stars — soda fountains serving the first carbonated beverages offered both fruit and cream sodas.

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“The No. 19 on rye. Some of their homemade cream soda. Delicious pickles. A whitefish platter.”

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The McCrory’s Five and Dime store made an ice cream soda that was so good that the Jim Crow lunch counter “hardly registered” to the young Reed.

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