@PTG

Oh shouty! Hello there! About a million* others have mentioned this US variation of the #AustralianDrink already in the comments.

I guess I didn't really make it clear in the first post (but it's abundantly clear in the threads and sub-threads) that we were discussing the #Australian drink called a Spider. We don't do root beer here.

*Slight exaggeration (but only slight) 🤣

#SpiderDrink #food #australianFood

@zutalorz

Ah yes - I've had about a million* people tell me that variation. I've kept the threads and sub threads to the #Australian #SpiderDrink, tho.

*exaggeration (slightly)

#food

and of course, just as I close off a topic, I find some more information about the Australian drinks called Spiders.

In the wonderful book Australia, The Coookbook, by Ross Dobson, he says that they were first called "Gunn's Gully Spider". The name Spider stuck, but we dropped the Gunn's Gully.

It seems Gunn's Gully is/was in Victoria.

Ross commits the unforgivable sin of adding the ice cream first 😀

This book, all 400 pages of it, contains everything you ever thought of as Australian and all the popular recipes throughout the last century, and longer. It is fabulous.

Attached is TROVE article.

#Australia #AustralianFood #food #SpiderDrink #coolDrinks

Thanks to everyone who joined in the threads and sub-threads of the Aussie drink and its many variations, called Spiders. I hadn't expected such nostalgia and also attachment to your most favourite base soft drinks.

I did some reading - the US seems to claim the origin of mixing ice cream with soft drink, but I am not sure. I think the British, renown for mixing all sorts of things with their alcohol a couple of centuries ago (and calling them Spiders) - the premise is that the Spider as we know it today, emerged from there.

So here's to the nostalgic but awesome Aussie Spider. I picked up some creamy soda last night to see me through the week of hot hot weather ahead.

Thanks again.

#Australia #AustralianFood #food #SpiderDrink #coolDrinks

@Leisureguy

Sure - and in Australia it has its own nomenclature, incarnations and nostalgia. While here it has gone waaaay out of fashion, it is still loved and recalled fondly, as the thread shows. I suspect it was here long before the US but can't verify that. Perhaps with our early Italian immigaration.

Indeed, during the thread I have discovered a few different global varieties - not only the US but Canada and Italy in particular. Perhaps there are more countries too.

It has been a fascinating and max interesting thread, and the discussions made me fondly remember my grandmother who made them for us a lot when we were very young kids.

#food #SpiderDrink

I will be first up with a #SpiderDrink - it is utterly delicious if not unusual. I used what I had - ginger lemon kombucha and home made mango ice cream.

But so good! There will be more of these.