An Italian Tries American FROZEN DRINKS
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An Italian Tries American FROZEN DESSERTS & DRINKS | Milkshakes, Ice Cream Floats, Sonic Slushes, Lindy's Italian Ice
Today's strategy for beating the heat is to try a bunch of classic, American frozen desserts... or maybe I should call them frozen drinks? Iced novelties? The term is up for debate, I would appreciate some input from you all...
Anyway, in this video I introduce Eva to some new treats and, in her typical fashion, she introduces me to a chilling surprise...
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00:00 - Shakes, Floats and Slushes, Oh My!
00:36 - Heading to Sonic
01:38 - Eva Tries a Sonic Slush
04:02 - Harper's Favorite Frozen Drink
05:21 - Eva Tries a Rootbeer Float
08:00 - A Classic American Diner
09:37 - Eva Tries a Chocolate Milkshake
11:13 - One More Treat... Italian Style
11:33 - Eva Tries Lindy's Homemade Italian Ice
13:04 - How to Make Granita: the REAL Italian Ice
14:36 - How to Make Granita Without a Machine
15:25 - Harper Tries Lemon & Almond Granita
17:11 - Pasta Grammarian in Action!
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Guys, Inspired by your video back in May, on the non-existent region of Italy (Campobasso,Capracotta), I took June and July and did a trip around south Italy and Sicilia, by train from Firenze. Among the highlights were Matera, Taormina, Palermo, Sant'Agnello and Ortegia. It was a fantastic experience, and I discovered a lot of new (for me) foods, including the granita alla mandorla that Eva made in this video. I want to thank you guys for inspiring me to get off my butt and do the traveling. Grazie mille, ragazzi!
Good morning. Very good video…. Would love to try and replicate both Recipes…. But neither link is working for those specific recipes. Not through UA-cam or the “regular” means.
I would define these as "frozen beverages"
@@cjay2 So glad to hear you had a great time!!!
@@BigYak Hm, they seem to be working for us... Does it work if I give you a direct link here? www.pastagrammar.com/post/homemade-lemon-granita-the-real-italian-ice-recipe
As an American who went to an international school in Finland I found that Europeans are almost universally disgusted by root beer. An English friend said it tasted like the cough syrup he was given as a child.
I’ve always though root beer tastes like cough medicine!
Unlike continental Europeans, sometimes English people like it, though rarely. Root beer is an evolution of a type of medieval English small beer. They still have the similar dandelion and burdock drink, but I think it's out of fashion.
It tastes like Night Nurse
Although I’m born and (mostly) raised in Norway, and although root beer pretty much tastes like the smell of tiger balm, root beer still is nostalgic and delicious to me from parts of my childhood in the US. Nothing like a root beer float, and that’s why I love it.
I'm not even european but root beer does taste like soap
Scientists really need to study how Eva's hair has so much volume. I'm a little jealous.
It's the starch from the pasta
Seriously though, that does allegedly help her hair. But I have no idea why it's so HUGE
@@nodezsh It mat be a combination of the heat and pasta water. I don't know, but I envy her volume.
@@megatronn194 - Or simply genetics, causing her unusual huge amounts of hair in combo with the curly texture… Sooo envious! 🤗
@@lottatroublemaker6130 I was joking about the pasta water part. But I do wish I had her length and volume.
I think her refined palate being able to taste the sugar is really telling of American foods. To us these frozen treats aren't all that sugary because we've been conditioned to accept that sheer level of sugar as being normal since we were kids. Definitely explains the obesity issues in America.
Once you start eliminating a lot of processed foods and sugars, you can pick up on it. In Italy not many people eat processed foods.
I agree. Everything in the US tastes too sweet to me. The thing is also that these things were never meant to be eaten as substitutes for real food. I'm guessing that before these big corporate franchises had so many locations people took kids to a soda fountain for a treat where the food were more normal, not as processed and full of dyes etc.. The mass production and more customers had led to more sugar and fillers. Non-food.
She defaults to hating something before she even tries it every time lol… this dude is so chill. Great video guys.
Yes! She’s very dramatic. 😒
yeah IM thinking good. More for us.
Harper: you missed the absolute best type of frozen treat possible! A frozen margarita!!!
Ohhhh, you're right....
Frozen raspberry margaritas are AWESOME!!!! Haha
@@paulfreitag8267 no strawberry
@@iseytheteethsnake6290 Also good of course, but I still gotta go with the raspberry. 😀
LIME and salt is the only "real" Margarita.
personally I think a slurpee from 7-11, ideally drunk in the parking lot, is the quintessential American frozen drink experience. In a flavor not found in nature.
Yeah..!! 7-11slushees bring back my childhood.. the original cherry is the best.
Cola flavor!
My kids loved those, they would layer the different flavors. I never enjoyed them, too sweet!
Yup. Dr. Pepper, cream soda (or bubble gum, if they have it) and orange crush. Classic.
Cola and Pina colada flavors something tropical.. my 7-11 used to create their own flavors..it was pineapple coconut in the summer or lemon sorbet.. yummy 🤤
My uncles father in law whose German had a root beer thinking it was all real beer, like a German beer. He spat it out so fast. The family was cracking up.
Meh, the most popular style of German beer isn't even legal to be called beer under Reinheitsgebot. I don't really care what they think beer is or isn't. Using root as an adjunct is absolutely possible is "real" alcoholic beer.
Good thing he didn't try Jamaican Ginger Beer then 😱
I love how Eva's accent hasnt changed at all. She's definitely Italian to the core lol. Love your content!
She seems to travel back so often I'm not surprised. And she probably calls back home too. Don't lose contact with your family people
@@nodezsh 💯
In the first two or three Pasta Grammar videos I watched, I was convinced Eva was exaggerating her accent for effect. Finally I realized, "Nope, that's just the way she speaks." If she and I were each to drink a couple of strong cocktails, I wouldn't be able to understand a damn thing she says. 😄
my father was here from 21 to his passing at 78.. he retained his STRONG accent and ability to hack off the end of american words till the end.. like pill for pillow etc. i was thinking of Aruba last night and i know my father would be saying ARUB... lol. and i miss it incredibly (Its 3 years this week and i find myself trying to reproduce in my head how he said things.. his way.. his voice..)
My grandmother came to America when she was in her 20's, and she never lost her thick accent. She never had anyone teach her English, so that may have something to do with it. She knew enough to get by, though!
Frozen Novelties would be a perfect name. In Chicago, you can get at a stand called Mario's, you can get true Italian granita so smooth even Eva would be impressed. The Italians who emigrated to America and went to Chicago coined the term Italian ice.
My grandfather was from Chicago (but born in Fox Lake). My grandma was married to him at 16, a couple of years after she moved there. She told me about the thick Chicago style pizza and the granita they had there. I grew up in Albuquerque, and there was a pizza place we went to that sold Italian ice, and she always said it wasn’t the same as it was in Chicago. She moved to NM soon after my dad was born, with her in-laws, and my grandfather came down after he sold their family home.
Italian Ice originated in New Jersey and is based off of granita which originated in Sicily. ❤️
Mario's is the shit. But Freddy's in Cicero has really good Italian ice AND the best gelato in the city AND tons of great savory food so that's the spot I go whenever I'm back in town.
As a Chicagoan now transplanted to SF, I’m loving this conversation. Im from the north west side so grew up going to Johnnie’s for beef and ice, but I looove Mario’s which I found when I went to UIC. Also love Freddy’s! For gelato Massa, which is on North Ave, by Johnnie’s
I can attest to this. Be ready to wait in line. But it’s worth it. 🙌🏻 (south suburbs)
Omg Harper, you need to take her to Dairy Queen! I'm not shocked about her reaction to the root beer float either...
It constantly amazes me that more people don’t know about granita. It’s easily the best and simplest dessert ever!
I think honeycomb is simpler.
It takes a couple tries to learn the technique and get it right but you get a huge batch with few ingredients (it's mostly airy). Namely sugar, water, and baking soda. And you'll get it done in five minutes.
It seems to be baby's first candy making?
Not as good as a slushy and yes I did actually make their recipe for the lemon one. Most people commenting here haven't bothered and that's what they are counting on for their BS to fly. It was ok but don't believe their BS.
Had some granita when almost suffering a heatstroke in Naples. Very nice.
Many of the 170 gelaterias in my hometown Vienna are owned by Italian families who came to the city in the 19th century from the poor mountain valleys of the (now) Italian region of Trentino when Northern Italy was part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. In search for a better life in the empire's capital, they started to sell ice cream, a thing that was already popular in Italy but mostly unknown to a broader Viennese population. Many of the ice cream shops are closed during winter and the families spend some time in the Italian valleys they originally came from over 100 years ago.
Tichy Eis!
Very interesting bit of history!
I love Trentino. I had such a great time visiting the area with a local and some mutual friends. All the castles! And the northernmost citrus "farm". It was such a wonderful place to visit and I left with many bottles of wine and other assorted beverages.
In many of the tourist sites, locals tried to speak to me in German. I'd reply, "Canadese. Inglese e francese." Which is sadly about the extent of my Italian. Also, from hearing the navigation system, I also know that "sinistre" is left.
"Italian ice" became popular in America during the depression. It's made with just water and a little flavor, huge treat for children in the heat back when there was no ac and refrigerators were not common.
I like to make some with a bit of coconut cream, crushed pineapple and banana. Even though the banana isn't the best looking thing sure tastes great!
Sounds delicious.
At about 8 years old, I mail ordered a multi-blade cheapo grinder/slicer (this was before Ron Popiel) "as a gift for my grandmother," just knowing she would find it wonderful for her cooking. That aside, one day I ground up some ice, and poured some molasses on it. and promptly reacted as Eva does with root beer. Disgusting. That was my last effort. LOL.
During the summer in Chicago, we used to go down to Taylor St and get fresh Italian Lemon Ice with real lemon and lemon zest. Served in a little pleated paper cup. Like the paper cups for ketchup, but bigger.
@@Adam_K14 maybe the Italian imagrants that owned ice houses were the ones making it? Not sure....
isnt this just a sorbet?
I think "An italian tries" fits just fine playlist wise. And I'd love to see a longer video on that granita.
dragging others into it would be good too. then there could be italian-american tries authentic stuff.
She reacted to root beer exactly the way my husband Fabrizio. He still mentions the root beer float among the greatest traumas of his life.
As a European from Malta, I can attest that most Europeans hate root beer floats. However, my grandfather visited the US when he was younger and brought back with him the concept of ice-cream floats and I was personally hooked. I have been drowning my ice-cream in soda since I was a little boy and I am almost 50 now 😊 Small disclaimer, I only do this for cheap soft serve ice-cream and tend to eat good quality gelato as is or at most as a milk shake. One of my most favourite things in the world though is Sicilian granita col latte di mandorla! 😊
The drinks are “American Fountain Drinks” as they all originated from the drug store soda fountains . The Italian Ice’s and Slushies are frozen treats and truly descended from Italian Granita’s . Italian ices we’re introduced by immigrants as freshly scooped granitas and sold in paper cups like an ice cream cone in Italian neighborhoods from rolling carts in the summer. Later, with advanced refrigeration, they began to package them in cups with lids for all year round convenience. You missed ice cream sodas, malteds and egg creams.
Thank you, Sal! I came here to post this -- my grandmother used to tell me stories of the man with the rolling cart in the summertime in New York.
I used to date a European girl and introduced her to root beer floats and she had a similar reaction. I actually had my first soda in two years when I showed it to her. It was so good though. She was mystified by my reverence for this treat.
Eva is a genius. I don't think I've ever watched her cook something that didn't look great.
It makes me glad because when I have to hear around that Italian food is just about pasta tomatoes and cheese I can just link them this channel.
Or you can simply tell those people, that they don't know the Italian cuisine. A cuisine with all its varieties, with all its regional specialties, but also with its specialties from city to city, that not even we Italians know everything up to bottom. The more we travel around Italy, the more we discover new things!
I think Italian Ice originated in New York City and it was originally fruit syrup poured over shaved ice. The wonder bread version is the Sno-Cone.
Ohh, I love Granita. When I was a child my mother and I went to Italy by bus (to Venezia, Roma o Limone sul Garda) and there was always the first stop in Italy at the "Passo del Brennero" and there was a small cart selling Granita. If only because of the sound of this word and the selection of flavours (limone, arancia, fragola o menta) it sounded like paradise. Of course, it was not top-quality, but it was ITALIA!!! That is now almost 50 years ago, but I still remember how happy I was to have this frozen pleasure - it was like the anticipation of all the Italian treats to come...
I am currently in Pescara and love granita but the local gelatoria served me a Limone granita with lemon syrup that made it a boba drink with Limone flavored jelly bits and it was so full of sugar, yuck. Need to find a better gelatoria and order a menta granita.
@@wrldtrvlr7246 I'm from Pescara and it's normal to find this kind of "beach version" granita, more liquid and raw, and you can usually find it all along the Adriatic coast. It's not a mistake or a symbol of a bad place, it's just a granita that has nothing to do with the Sicilian one! Honestly, I can't tell you where to eat a good Sicilian granita in the surrounding area because if you ask for it anyone will give you this version!
EDIT: I searched on Internet and in Piazza Unione, near Corso Manthoné, there is a bar called "Mizzica" which specializes in Sicilian cuisine. Try to go there!
I'm actually surprised you went with the chocolate shake instead of a chocolate malt, especially in a real retro diner setting like that. I feel like the malt is both the more distinctly flavored and more quintessentially American treat.
If she didn't like the root beer float - which is a European thing from the other comments lol - she probably would have hated the malt.
You're so right. I remember being young (once) and I worked at a bakery that made shakes. Had a dude come in one day looking for a MALT. I understood what he wanted. HE understood what he wanted. But we didn't have malt. Tried to explain the difference between a shake and a malt to my co-worker who didn't get it. Thought they were the same thing.
Malted milk is an acquired taste, too.
I love Root beer Floats! My dad got them every Sunday at the A&W. We also had a shop in town that made its own ice cream and we would get floats there to. Good stuff
The old A&W Root Beer was the best until they started bottling it and changed the recipe. I hate it now. IBC Root Beer is what A&W used to be. Awesome.
@@SirWussiePants Indeed. IBC has a nice creamy, mellow flavor and TIGHT carbonation. Delicious when cold. I'm glad they're still kickin' it.
Similar to other comments here, I haven’t found anyone outside North America who likes root beer. My sister-in-law is Brazilian/Japanese, and she says the same thing - root beer is soapy, and medicinal-tasting. But I think every culture has a soda or drink that’s more endemic to its region that outsiders rarely enjoy. 🤷🏻♂️
But yeah, root beer floats are AWESOME. I like to actually mix it all up so the consistency is like a blend of soda and ice cream. And experimenting with different ice cream/soda combinations is really great. Orange cream float being another personal favorite.
Frozen beverages Harper...that is what it is. By the way, the "Italian ice" is about a zillion years old from the Northeast. It was made by an Italian and Eva...it was based on the granita you speak of. I grew up in an Italian neighborhood. Mama mia! Everything was so good. Originally as a kid this was sold by this old Italian guy who would scoop the ice from a container in an ice cart. Cherry and lemon were the original flavors. Eventually, they were mass produced under the name Marinos or Ginos. These were the best. Luigis and everything else was no comparison. Buon appetito!
Marino's and Gino's both still exist.
that kind of granita was typical in rome and central italy, eva's style is from sicily and southern Italy (and it is better)
Sonic’ strawberry limeade is pretty amazing. Real limes and muddled strawberries in the drink.
I’m in Mexico but whenever I’m getting a lemonade in a restaurant I ask them to use half the sugar they usually put in it and there’s never a problem… unless it’s not made with real fruit -then I get some other drink. Perhaps Eva could do the same at Sonics? It seems like they make every drink at the moment.
@@verosdes they do make them on the spot. That would be a good idea. And most people like the cherry limeade, but I don’t like cherries. I love the fresh strawberries in a limeade.
@@verosdes It's true. They use a sugar syrup to sweeten. I ask for extra lime in mine and they squeeze in an extra lime half.
Their Cherry Limeade is perfect on a hot summer day!
Try the limeade and ask for a splash of peach…you will thank me later😉
Ah, man…. I remember A&W Drive In restaurants up until the 80s, when they transformed to “regular” fast food places with drive-through ordering. Famous of course for their Root Beer. And Root Beer floats.
Harper a Rootbeer float was one of my favorite things growing up in Canada A&W had the best one. Explaining it to Ava would be like a more sweeter Brio with ice cream in it.
I didn't realize there was such animosity towards root beer...I love trying just about any crafted (small batch) root beer I can find, and I will admit, the tastes of them do span quite a range from great to terrible. Another regional soda that Harper may remember from Maine that I personally enjoy, but lots of people detest, is Moxie. Now THAT is an acquired taste.
That's how "Now that guy's got Moxie," was started. A strong and unique flavor.
Moxie is a love/hate thing for me. Occasionally I just HAVE to have one. Satisfies my craving for several years. Same for RC Cola and Fesca ;D
I LOVE MOXIE. It is amazing, this is the hill I choose to die on 😂
Don't forget Sarsaparilla.
@@PastaGrammar you should take Ava to the Moxie festival in Bethel, Maine.
I certainly expected the root beer float reaction. Many of my international friends tell me they find root beer to taste like toothpaste. It is definitely an acquired American taste.
When I was a kid I thought root beer was an actual medicine because it was so bitter, so my mom always made my floats with Cream Soda. Does that even exist anymore?
Perhaps Eva should try it again, but as a Coca-Cola float.
@@monkeygraborange Yes. Still easy to find in NY.
When I was watching Ava make the almond flavor, that is exactly how you make almond milk. I used to make it often but not so much anymore. Maybe I should start again and buy an ice cream machine?🤔 when I was a teenager back in the mid 70s, there used to be an A restaurant called Ferrells ice cream parlor and they had a Sundae called a tin roof… it was vanilla ice cream with hot fudge and peanuts on top and whipped cream of course 😃❤️ That was my favorite.
Some cultures just can't do root beer/sarsaparilla. The Japanese for example think they smell like muscle pain patches (Salonplas, Bengay etc). Here in Southeast Asia we love it. It is sold here under the generic name Sarsi.
Just so happens we had a bottle of rootbeer in the fridge. As soon as my husband saw your video, he went and made us a rootbeer float! Good thing we had vanilla ice cream! It was so good!! Love you guys!
Wait! I've been making baked beans with apple pie filling and root beer this year and I think I have some root beer left! I have some vanilla ice cream tucked away...
I’ve made lemon granita. The almond?! Oh yeah, this I need to make for sure. WOW. Grazie! Oh, I made the farro summer salad for the Italian side family reunion yesterday…. It was a hit!
I'm very lucky, because I live in Sicily and I can have a granita almost every day. Yep, the almond one is unbelievably good. When it's very very hot, lemon and watermelon are my favorite and very refreshing. Brava Eva! 🥰🥰🥰
Fortunata,ad essere nella patria della granita
You also have some of the best fruit and almonds, that helps.
It's ok but they exaggerate their reactions. I did the lemon recipe and it's not as good as a slushy. Total BS reactions from these UA-camrs. In the end it's about getting as many subs as you can and making as much money from views as you can. If that means exaggeration and BS then UA-camrs will do it.
@@dtz1000 Oh so cynical, the lemon granita didn't appeal because I imagine it's still going to be quite crystally made like that. The thing to try is the almond ice made in the ice cream machine, it looks like a chore but it might be worth it.
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Since you live in AZ, have Eva try Mexican popsicles (paletas)! Quite a few flavors are mad with real fruit, and the men who sell them are iconic. Also, if Eva is into spicy, try a mangonada!
Yes, good suggestion. I love those Mexican popsicles.
I spent the last 3.5 weeks in Italy in the heat and I survive with my mid day lemone granita, thank you so much for teaching me how to keep eating it back in the states.
Actually, in Italy we have the grattachecca which is ice grated with fruit syrup or citrus juice. It is a typically Roman thing and it is not as good as granita but there are those who prefer it and in some famous kiosks lemon peel or homemade syrups are used. Eva, I think the taste of soap is because of the ginger that sometimes is in the root beer along with the other herbs and roots
We also have granita in Spain (granizado).
I use to add some dark rhum on the lemon one, just a bit, as Eva added the coffee on the almond one.
Thanks for the video and the recipes
You have these recipes because you came in the 1500s and copied everything we made and brought it back, you have a "Sobrasada" which is Soppressata in Italian which is the same thing as Nduja but with Paprika. Soppressata is instead a salame, so you guys got confused and i'm pretty sure you switched two names with each other
Also flavoured ice was invented in the Roman Empire to keep cool during the summer
@@Galexlol I'm not saying that we invented them ;)
In fact the Arabs invented the 'sherbet' and bring it to Sicily and Spain
Yummmm! Wonderful video. It reminds me of the leftover natural grape syrup that my dad had from making wine. We would drizzle it on freshly fallen snow. What a treat. How about 'iced treats'.
Eva has me in tears in these videos. She is so funny!
1)If Eva has ever used fresh cilantro leaf in cooking, she has tasted soap. Not coriander seed, but sprouted grown leafy cilantro. Soap. 2)The Diner float is actually a "Malt Shake". Malt is the sweet liquid that is extracted from toasted (malted) barley and is the main ingredient in pre-fermented beer.
This summer since it's been so hot I have been going to Rita's Italian Ice and frozen custard, pretty good but I know it would not stand up to Eva's homemade version. My favorite is just adding good vanilla icecream and pour some cold coffee over it. Delicious! You can add whatever makes you happy from there. Fresh whip cream, chocolate syrup all good! 🤗😋
Well Harper, I'm with you, love me a good root beer float, and if that was Eva's reaction to root beer, I can just imagine what a Doctor Pepper might do to her taste buds. Might have to try the almond ice, that looked delish.
Harper is, quite possibly, the luckiest man in the universe. Eva is AMAZING!!!!!
If Eva doesn’t like root beer, I’ve always been a big fan of an orange creamsicle float. It seems like most of the craft soda makers in the Midwest US usually make root beer and orange sodas.
Eva’s response to the perfection that is a root beer float casts a shadow on every other opinion she has shared. That being said, I am currently eating that delicious fried polenta, salmon and asparagus salad that you recently posted and will be making up a batch of granitas tonight!
It's all BS. I did the lemon recipe and it was ok, but no way was it as good as a slushy. Fake reactions as you suspected.
I'm sick of all these foodie UA-camrs lying all the time. This is not the first time I've had this problem with UA-camrs.
No one will listen even though I'm one of the few people who actually did this recipe, so they will continue the BS. Anyway, I just had to get that off my chest about these shysters.
Root beer is an acquired taste. In Europe, very few people like it and compare it to cough syrup. Living in the U.S., I even know plenty of Americans who hate root beer and judge me for liking root beer floats.
As they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
I adore granitas, especially those made from fruits. They are so refreshing and tasty!
It's ok but their reaction to their own granitas is such BS. I made their lemon one and it was ok but no way was it as good as a slushy. They exaggerate their reactions to gain subs. All these foodie UA-camrs do it. It kind of angers me as I don't like being lied to.
@@dtz1000 Yes, they exaggerate a bit as a part of the concept they created to make their videos interesting. I don't mind that! On the contrary, I love their style and that's why I am a subscriber to the channel. I live in Greece and I am more familiar with the italian way of cooking, especially from the South Italy, and the cuisines of the two countries share more or less the same ingredients. By the way, I can't resist to a strawberry milkshake and I enjoy soda, ice cream and syrup mixed together!
As a dual national British-Canadian I think that Root Beer is the Marmite of soft drinks. I absolutely love the stuff my stepfather who's half Dutch also loves Root Beer but I've got plenty of European friends who love it and plenty of European friends who hate it. Some people who hate it says it tastes a bit like Liquorice others say it tastes like the smell of Deep Heat (I can see where they're coming from though)
on a hot summer night, nothing is better than a Dairy Queen Blizzard with Skor bites.
Root and Birch beer floats are awesome!
I once heard that parts of Europe flavor medicine with root beer type flavors and that’s why so many don’t like this flavor as a treat. Not sure if this is true.
Yes a lot of the same herbs go into both.
so unfortunately Europeans have been getting tricked into associating something yummy with something medicinal lol
@@jumpieva here in italy we have liquors made with medicinal herbs and we like it, so i think it is more the other way around 😂
My wife and I still make root beer floats all the time. For us, we like to mix the ice cream and root bear until it becomes more like a "Frosty". Still thick enough to eat with a spoon, but creamy enough to use a straw.
When Eva added that coffee into the almond granita....🤤🤤🤤🤤
Root beer floats are the best!
Though I’m Russian but I love root beer! And “floats” are funny to drink, I loved simple cola and crème-brûlée ice cream. Nowadays I’m not much into sweet stuff. We here in Russia have very similar soft drink «Baykal» that comes from USSR period and it’s dark in colour and got a lot of herbs in it. Maybe you’ll try it one day, it’s nice.
so russia and usa have more in common than they like to admit 🤔
@@SmarK2K If to think about it, maybe! Cause americans have hamburgers and we have cutlets with the similar recipe. They have hotdogs and we got baked sausage in the dough and etc. I guess everybody on Earth like simple pleasures :)
But In USSR kids usually drink soda and eat ice cream separately+we both love milkshakes.
Soviet milkshake is one of the best things from USSR, it's not so dence as american, and theres little unnoticeable pieces of ice in the drink so they melts right away. I could drink about 800ml of that sweet stuff! Nowadays it's not so common to find soviet style milkshake.
@@richarddick1980 I've never been to Russia, but I love kvass. Even made my own a few times.
@@alanmjohnson homemade kvass is one of the best! just find a recipe for yourself that suits you. There are even recipes with hops. So with hops you can store kvass longer in beer bottles in a cold place.
"I was expecting something bad". The usual Italian judgement on most things American. 😆
Orange soda for Creamsicle taste. When Portillo's arrives in Tucson,you have to have a cake shake. And as someone already mentioned, Eegee's is the Tucson institution for frozen beverages.
My favorite frozen treat was a Creamsicle! Reminds me of the beach ⛱️!
Orange dreamsicle!
You've got to like Root Beer to like root beer floats. I never like root beer floats until I found a root beer that I actually liked.
OMG, she actually was happy with Milk Shakes, I am so amazed!
Lol Eva cracks me up 😂😂 I love her comments
Eva blasts another grand slam as we all knew she would and lucky Harper gets to taste
what real food is.
Harper,..I'm with you. Love ROOTBEER FLOATS. Being in Arizona. they make Sarsaparilla which is as good, if not better than rootbeer. Rootbeer is either great or you don't like it at all type of soda. We now know what side of the ledger Eva is on.
Ava is such a great cook! Keep on giving us recipes!
I'm with you, Harper. Rootbeer floats are heavenly.
I've only been to sonic once or twice, but I happened to get that lime slushie - it is definitely not sweet! 😅 It's very good, but it's tart, not sweet.
I understand Eva’s dislike for the root beer float. I like root beer. I love vanilla ice cream. But mixing ice cream into soda always seemed to make both worse for me. The soda is less bubbly and the ice cream is watered down. Maybe it’s because I didn’t try them until my teens? Who knows? That almond ice that Eva made though. It looked so amazing. Then adding espresso. Wow. That combo looked great. (Caffeine makes everything better of course)
I am a 1st generation American Italian and with that said, I grew up loving root beer. So, I too Harper LOVE a good, old fashioned root beer float! I also love Italian ice. (Here in the Chicago area, the brand that’s well known is Luigi’s.) BUT, nobody does frozen treats like they do in Italy! (I may be a little biased.) My cousin in Rome used to make us a granita with cantaloupe that was outrageous. And her peach & nectarine sorbetto was to die for! And don’t even get me started on frozen limoncello and all the different gelato flavors! 😉
I love you guys ,Eva & Harper prove that food taste best when it's simple
Yeah, I'm also not a fan of root beer. Tastes like medicine to me.
Yeah, rootbeer is an aquired taste. I don't like it either. I would have eased her in with a coke float instead.
Depends on the Brand. They are all different.
Granita is one of my favourite summer treats too!
Introduced our teen to ice-cream floats this summer my dad used to take us to a local Italian cafe for one when we were young.
Europeans ALWAYS hate root beer, so this was kind of predictable. 🤣 I guess you have to grow up with the flavor. I was kind of hoping Eva would be an outlier -- she likes peanut butter after all -- but obviously, that didn't happen...
Sonic is horrible. Everything tastes like chemicals.
The great dessert beverage is the chocolate malt. Transforms a shake into something very special.
Take Eva to Eegee's, as it was only a Tucson only food chain. They started branching out this year into Phoenix again. The drink is called an Eegee. The owner who created the Eegee's tried to make Granita and ended up with the product known as Eegee. They come in different flavors. Strawberry, Lemon, Pina (Pineapple), Skinny Berry, and they have different flavors of the month. Also Little Anthony's Diner has some really good food too.
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Italians have a medicine that they take, usually as kids, that tastes just like root beer. It's similar to the Italian drink Chino for us. We learned that when living in Italy and tried to get our Italian friends to drink root beer, and they would adamantly refuse anything we offered.
Can you remember what the medicine was? I'm Italian, never had root beer, and I'm curious to know what it tastes like.
And yes, I love Chinotto, and I had foreigners telling me they hated it
@@lorenzopale I don't remember the exact medicine, but that's what my neighbors told me. I just know that it's an almost universal truth that most Italians don't like Root Beer or Cream Soda (which explains why Eva was like... no.)
Wow thank you Eva this takes me back.
When I was in Sicily years ago in the summer I had granita and a brioche every morning. It was so refreshing because it was so hot. I had the lemon.
EXTRA THUMBS UP for including that awesome clip from the movie Down By Law for "I scream-a for ice cream-a."
When I was a kid we used to get Italian ice
40 years ago it came in a paper cup with a flat woop spoon
I'm glad it's still around
Thank you for the granita recipes! I can easily make these with my sugar substitutes and enjoy them on my keto lifestyle! Awesome!
When I heard root beer float, I was waiting for Eva's reaction! She did not disappoint, I had the same reaction 😂😂😂
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Its so cute when Eva doesn't like something, how profoundly sad she looks it's adorable 😍
My Italian taught me something great. Many Europeans do not like root beer. Apparently, a lot of the ingredients we use in root beer are aromatics that are used in soap or cleaning fluids in Europe. Anyway, the closest relative to root beer in Italy is called chinotto. We have found it at a local Mediterranean store, and now it’s my job to pick some up every time I go. Along with a bunch of other things.
It is quite common for root beer to be made with wintergreen flavoring, which is the same flavoring as many toothpaste brands. Most people who didn't grow up with root beer think they are drinking mouth wash and wince in digust.
I think you should have made her try another float with a different tast, because the idea doesn't sound bad, it's icecream in a drink
I believe the old-fashioned general classification for these types of treats is "fountain drinks", because they came from a 'soda fountain' at a local drug store or candy shop.
The almond granita looks sublime!
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My favorite, the Boston Cooler: A vanilla ice cream float made Vernor’s Ginger Ale. It MUST be Vernor’s, a full-bodied ginger ale originally from Detroit. Boston Coolers are great with chocolate ice cream too.
In Brazil we have a drink called "Limonada Suiça", translated as "Swiss Lemonade", but I don't think it has anything to do with Switzerland. It's made with lime, ice, water and sugar (or the sweetener of your choice). So you cut a few limes and blend everything, strain it and then you have Swiss Lemonade.
i grew up with my mom making granita di caffe... espresso coffee made into granita. all summer long. amazing.
really enjoyed this. Would love to see more like this with you introducing her to American foods. For example good Barbeque , buffalo wings, corn dog, Reuben, lobster roll. etc.. Lots of fun thanks for the video.
There's a huge granita tradition in the Philly area. Everyone calls it "wooder ice" (which is just 'water' in the local accent spelled out).
It's much more like your homemade stuff than the things you get in the freezer aisle. I had some recently and I think I liked it more as a kid though.
My sister put one of those "maraschino" cherries in the compost pile, and it NEVER decomposed or changed color!!!
As a child growing up in central New Jersey, Grillo's Italian Ice in Plainfield, NJ was THE place to go. A special treat. Now for something less nostalgic...a helpful hint for those in the colonoscopy years: You know that liquid diet you have the day before? Make a granita! I buy white grape juice and make a granita from it, and it's almost like food -- far more than just drinking the juice.
Thanks Eva & Harper -- those two recipes look wonderful and wonderfully easy for a nice hot day. Harper, I adore root beer floats too. I think the proper category is "frozen desserts".
Harper, what about the new maple syrup poured onto the springtime snow ? Now that must be the original American ice treat.
I have that same blender! The kitchen ninja can turn ice into snow like nothing I have ever seen.