Did RUclips just recommend something actually worth watching? Nice. I like this guy's genuine passion and love for the foods he's grown up with. I think the few bits of odd audio and stuttered dialogue just add to how genuine this content is.
Finally able to stop by lofty pursuits for brunch and it was great. Giant food portions great food, ice cream, and coped me some root beer unicorn droppings
I just found this today, March 14, 2024, after reading an article on foods once popular from a HistoryFacts email. I’ve been in love with food since I was a child. Always loved sofa fountains and wished to own one. I grew up in Danvers, Mass and my dad used to take us in to the Danvers News Agent that used to be right downtown in our suburb north of Boston. It didn’t have soda but it was the place where the local newspaper was distributed out of, and had candy, comics and small toys. I remember going in to take a quick peak at the comics my dad got the paper, and we alway got one piece of mint patty from the counter for 5 cents. Loved seeing this nostalgia and so glad I came across the day before National Egg Cream Day. I will celebrate with my ever first egg cream soda! Thank you for this post!! Cheers! 🥛
I have literally never heard of egg cream. I feel that's probably because im Canadian. Either way, being multilingual (English as my first language, and French my second) I can totally see how "et crème" became "egg cream". Because I didn't know what this was going in, I thought you were going to talk about a Cadbury cream egg milkshake.
I was born in New York, and my Father used to work part time in a drug store that had a counter you could buy food and soda, one of the things they sold a lot of was egg creams, and he taught us kids how to make it, it is easy to make.
I suspect it's something that specific to the east coast of the US (possibly the northeast specifically). I'm American, lived in a few places and never heard of it before this - though it sounds good.
Heard egg cream on Danny Phantom. So as long as a region has had Danny Phantom broadcasted there with the same translation, then no matter where you are the egg cream has heard of. I mean, if Danny Phantom was your kind of cartoon. ; )
My chocolate syrup recipe is very similar to yours, except in our family we always added a teaspoon of instant coffee powder. It doesn’t taste like a mocha, but the chocolate tastes just a little bit richer. I absolutely love your videos. The content is so informative, and your voice is very relaxing - a recipe for catharsis!
Hi Greg I am from Wales 🏴 and the only thing that we got over here is a cadbury's cream egg which is a sort off chocolate bar not a drink, and to be honest they are bloody the best, love them👍 so best wishes for the future to you and your family 👍 and love from Wales ❤️🏴
What an amazing find. This whole concept is foreign to me growing up on the west coast. Something I look forward to experiencing firsthand and sharing with my daughter. Thanks for bringing this to my attention and providing the history of this drink.
I enjoy 2 spins on this. The first is a mint chocolate version. I suppose you could add mint extract along with vanilla. I usually boil mint leaves while dissolving the sugar for the syrup. Then you make it the egg cream as you normally would . Another version is with dehydrated orange peels or orange zest. The orange citrus acidity contrasts with the chocolate sweetness.
I love Ray! He’s such a sweetie! He’s a fixture in the LES! Greg you were all over my stomping grounds! What more can a gal want than egg creams, Rays Candy, Johnny Thunders, and Lofty Pursuits!
This whole channel is like something you’d watch on Sunday morning on the PBS channel when you’re a kid, and you’re in absolute awe with how cool and and fact filled it is
Down votes don’t hurt a video. They count as engagement, just like comments. People are allowed to curate their personal algorithm without being vilified. Just chill. (But also consider the videos you dislike but actually you’ve helped get more viewers by giving them a thumbs down or posting comments)
i remember a fountain in Queens that my dad used to go too when he was younger ( 1950's-60's ) we'd always go there for egg creams , and to a middle eastern store for baklava . haven't been back since the late 1980's . bur still make my own at home. Dad would say to do it right . . . Has to be U'Bet, and has to be seltzer from a distributor with those old blue bottles with the built in metal nozzles. we're big on coke from the bottle too . and those old water chillers . Dad was originally from Sunnyside, and after college he and my mom moved up to Rockland county , just N of NYC . Then to Florida for their retirements, and passing . miss them . and NYC.
Thank you for this. I grew up on egg creams because my grandparents owned "candy stores" in different locations throughout the Bronx back in the 1930s40s, and, though I was born decades after they no longer had them, my grandmother introduced me to the incredible drink sometime during my youth in the 1960s using store-bought seltzer, milk, and Fox's U-Bet chocolate syrup. To this day I consider them a guilty pleasure to be indulged from time to time. On a side note, my grandparents raised my mother and her sister on the Lower East Side originally, while I myself actually lived there in the lmid-90s and recognize all the modern 2nd Avenue stores pictured here, though I never realized that Gem Spa is an ORIGINAL Lower East landmark. Again, thank you for this.
Rebecca Reed the problem with most seltzer is the bottle. Pop the cap, goodbye carbonation. Remember those funny looking Glass bottles with the nozzles from cartoons that sprayed water? THAT's how seltzer should be stored. Holds the carbonation no matter how many times you use it. Sadly, the only distributor I know of who bottles using this method mainly deals with businesses, as home deliveries are not a sustainable business with all of the carbonated beverage choices available anywhere these days.
Hello!!! NYCgirl here….Love a egg-cream🥰. Make them often for me & my kids. Passing the tradition. Happy to stumble upon your channel, just subscribed ❤🎉😂
Also that story from your childhood and that couple complementing you was such a sweet story! Thanks for sharing it with us Also the fact that your bow ties are sponsored just made me love this channel even more
I learned to make a perfect egg cream in the mid 1980s when I worked as a diner waitress in Colorado Springs. They are luscious! As a newly graduated drama major from Colorado College, I was proud to do so.
Love this guys passion. I am a believer in people following their passion no matter how obscure. We are all the same species and if it resonates with you, odds are you aren’t alone.
thanks for the info and recipes!will try now also can you please make or try Dulce de leche candy?its from argentina and its super creamy and sweet,you would love it thanks :)
I was not expecting to check out a video and hear "wooder", is that a Philly accent? I don't know of anywhere but Philly or the suburbs where people (me included) say "water" as "wooder".
I probably first heard about egg creams while reading Harriet the Spy, which I see referenced in the end of your video. I asked my pops, a former Manhattanite whose mother was a life-long deli waitress, how to make one, and he said that started with U-Bet and whole milk, but also that you had to pour the seltzer over the back of a spoon, and then you stir. I'm sure that single instruction is part of the unquantifiable magic that makes the perfect egg cream. Or not. 🙂 Fun video! Thanks for putting it together!
You show us so many things about our country and different, wonderfully rich traditions… I discovered you looking for a recipe about cinnamon candies with cinnamon oil. I stayed because of the beauty and depth of these wonderful presentations. Thank you so much for doing this and when I’m in Tallahassee I will stop by for those confections.
Greg, you should seriously start a podcast! Your voice is so smooth and calming, I love watching your videos while doing homework! I adore all of your videos.
I'm experimenting with things like that. I really don't know much about podcasts. But I am thinking about doing a v blog all weekend long from the New York toy Fair on the lofty Pursuits Facebook page. It won't be live because they have terrible cell reception. And honestly I may be too busy shopping for the store to do it at all but I'm bringing a portable rig with me.
Haven't had a soda fountain egg cream since the '60s at Abe & Harold's on Avenue X in Brooklyn. Haven't even made one at home in 40 years. Now I gotta have one! Putting chocolate syrup and seltzer on my shopping list. Great video. Thanks, Greg.
I hope the day I finally make it to Lofty Pursuits from California, you have a few minutes to sit and chat with me. I would love to hear some of your stories. Thank you for all you do. Truly.
Minty Eggs wow, how cool... jesus kids need to be banned from the internet. Everyone of them wants to let other's know their age and how different they are from kids their age, or the most mundane thing happening to them as they make their comment
Great vid! I had my first Egg Creme in the early 1980s, at the last old drugstore soda fountain in our town, just before it shut down. I'd been reading about the history of soda fountains, soda jerks, professors, all the crazy sounding drinks, and when I heard this place was about to shut it's doors for good I had to pay a visit. I ended up talking to one of the owners who had started working there as a boy and eventually bought into the business, and was happy to talk. He asked what I wanted to try and I said something quintessential...whatever he thought would be the best representation of the art. He suggested an Egg Cream, which I remembered reading about but hadn't really been impressed with the ingredients. He told me the magic was in the making. So he made one for me, and he was definitely right. Since then, I've been an enthusiast and become an aficionado. I love trying them, made by different people, even if they are not so perfect. Even more so, I love making them for people and passing on a bit of history and pleasure from the past. I'm with you on making your own syrup and I get my milk from an Amish Dairy farmer, so it's the richest and most flavorful whole milk. I think if you want to make the best real deal, you HAVE to get a seltzer bottle, unless you have a carbonated streamer. Pouring from a water bottle just doesn't do the trick for getting the best head of froth. Also, I adhere to inserting your stirring spoon before adding your syrup, and stirring vigorously at the bottom while adding the syrup right in the middle, and carefully slipping the spoon up and out at the side. If done just right, a spot of chocolate will remain suspended on the center surface of the milk froth. Does that improve the flavor or quality? Perhaps not, but it's the sort of technique detail that separates a Soda Jerk from a Professor.
The history information you drop on every video is always bearable for me. Usually if the presenter doesn't actually have passion for what they say I'll just zone out. But you do like it so much that it let's me enjoy to hear what you say
Hey Greg, I had a cheapskate boss that accidentally created one of my favorite soda type drinks. This was out west and I imagine you probably have something similar if Florida, but I'll pass it along anyway. He made Sweet Tea concentrate just like many places did. But he did two things differently that made it go from "That is tasty" to "That is amazing!" Originally he was using 100 tea bags to make 1 gallon of concentrate, which would then make 10 gallons of tea. But then he got a whole bunch of Apples and Cinnamon tea. So he made the concentrate with 90 tea bags of cheap black tea and 10 of the Apples and Cinnamon. Which by itself became very popular. So we sold a lot more. Since we went through so much, people wanted it both sweetened and unsweetened. So instead of getting a second large beverage coolers to mix it, we would pour the concentrate into a glass and add simple syrup if they wanted it sweet. But then the bartender started accidentally doing that but adding carbonated water instead. So in the end we had a fizzy, sweet, apple and cinnamon flavored iced tea. People loved it.
Oh it is. What was great was not only was it a wonderful beverage, it was actually cheaper than Kool-aid to make. Not counting the sugar it cost $6 to make enough for 10 gallons, for something we were selling for $2 a glass. If you decide you want to try and sell it, just remember to add either some vitamin C or a little lemon juice. I found at home when I made it it goes bad after only a couple days if you don't. The place I was working we sold enough that it didn't matter.
Great piece of American history! Those soda fountains are rare today-I haven't seen one in years. Always thought that an egg cream had to be made with Foxe's "U-Bet" chocolate syrup! Thanks for the great history and presentation...I liked the bit about reading the comic books on the shelf-until the owner threw you out! I did that as a kid!
Thanks for this video, Greg! I never knew about this particular drink. I'm in Mexico, and it'sreally fascinating to know a lot about a drink I've just come to know! I know I'm gonna make some egg creams for March the 15th! Thanks a lot for teaching us the history of candy and soda fountains! It's really fascinating!
After long stressful days, I love coming home and watching your videos. They are soothing and relaxing and highly entertaining. When Im home with my boys on the weekends, we can spend hours watching you make candy. Thank you for taking the time to make these :)
I love that you have your candy making outfit on while touring NY! This is an awesome video, and your quality is getting better and better with each upload, well done!
I love this video! Egg creams were something this PNW kid discovered through Harriet the Spy. I then led my mother through numerous recipes for chocolate egg creams, searching for our favorite. She had worked in a soda fountain in high school, so had far more background knowledge than I. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!
One of my favorite videos of yours! Little fun fact: The German spring mentioned is actually called "Selters" and I've read some accounts of people who think that the current US spelling, "Seltzer", appeared because people had trouble pronouncing it correctly.
A true NY classic... love how you were compared to the gold standard... and of course... only u-bet.... without that it's not an egg cream... great video 😀👏👏👏💙
It is somehow very cool that Lou Reed wrote a song about egg creams. A friend plays his "Take a Walk On the Wild Side" as a starting point for a playlist every time we are together, and it's always a fun musical trip down memory lane.
Amazing. Thanks for the history lesson, Greg! 😊 How wonderful it is to be complimented on your egg cream by the couple who lived above the shop in Brooklyn.
I used to make an awful lot of egg creams when I was a waitress in a 50s style Diner. They are refreshing and satisfying and just delicious! As a theater director, it makes me really happy to know the theater connection to the egg cream! I directed a show just a few blocks away from where you were on the Lower East Side. :-)
Here in Cleveland the sweet treat to have back in the day was the Higbees Frosted Malt served at Higbees dept. store. There is a long fabled story of how that treat came to be. It is worth the research! It can still be had at Webers vintage ice cream (custard) shop. (the originator of the treat). Loved this story of another fabled concoction.
Added a list of videos with egg creams in them to the Description and a list of my favorite places to get an egg cream in NYC.
Do you have a location in NY??? Will you!?!?!?
Just a random question, is here any chance you know diabetic candy recipes?
i learn more from u than in 1 history lesson
0:15 gah then it is an abomination against god and all right thinking peoples :P
Fascinating!!! Exceptional vid, thanks for sharing :)
I love how he wears his cute candy hat wherever he goes, he’s just like a wholesome cartoon character
I would love... LOVE... if you had your own full production Netflix show about the history of candies and convection in North america.
I mean dang you could just call it lofty pursuits!
Not sure I would watch a show about watching heat rise....
@@mrjlstarks jajajjajaja
With all the endless amount of shows netflix seems to greenlight it could be a very real possibility.
I need an agent or producer who is cleared with nexflix.
Greg is the best, he's the Bob Ross of candy making.
YES
Thank u for giving us this gift and opening my eyes
Greg is the wholesome medicine we need after a whole day of social media-ing
Does Greg make "happy little tree"candy?
@@jamesmorrison7847 vote for happy tree candy for Bob Ross's birthday!
I FOUND YOU AGAIN. IDK WHY BUT FOR SOME REASON YOU DISAPPEARED UNTIL HOW TO DRINK BROUGHT ME BACK.
Yip! Me too!
You could really make a charming home historical candymaking book with these sorts of anecdotes and little history lessons, you know.
I'm starting to think Greg could do anything!
This man has a very soft and amiable demeanor. I trust him.
He just seems so trustworthy and friendly doesn't he?
@@terminator572 Yeah. No to mention he hand-makes candy!
Did RUclips just recommend something actually worth watching? Nice.
I like this guy's genuine passion and love for the foods he's grown up with.
I think the few bits of odd audio and stuttered dialogue just add to how genuine this content is.
Finally able to stop by lofty pursuits for brunch and it was great. Giant food portions great food, ice cream, and coped me some root beer unicorn droppings
Ahhh I want to get one of the Unicorn Droppings so badly!
Alas i'm in CT :(
How did you like it?
@@ssheeessh Old comment I know, but maybe see if you can order some from them online? They do online sales
@@Skilltagz Unicorn droppings are like, the one product they only make in store. - last I knew
They only have so many, and its sorta supply and demand
Sent over by How to Drink, loved watching this! Definitely a great subscribe, and I'm looking forward to watching more!
This guy makes me want to enjoy learning about my nations history again! Awesome video!
Woah!!!!! I want to know more about the hotel sniper at 7:23 he used buckshot and got away in the middle of NYC
nationalist818 I was just thinking that
I just found this today, March 14, 2024, after reading an article on foods once popular from a HistoryFacts email. I’ve been in love with food since I was a child. Always loved sofa fountains and wished to own one. I grew up in Danvers, Mass and my dad used to take us in to the Danvers News Agent that used to be right downtown in our suburb north of Boston. It didn’t have soda but it was the place where the local newspaper was distributed out of, and had candy, comics and small toys. I remember going in to take a quick peak at the comics my dad got the paper, and we alway got one piece of mint patty from the counter for 5 cents. Loved seeing this nostalgia and so glad I came across the day before National Egg Cream Day. I will celebrate with my ever first egg cream soda! Thank you for this post!! Cheers! 🥛
I have literally never heard of egg cream. I feel that's probably because im Canadian. Either way, being multilingual (English as my first language, and French my second) I can totally see how "et crème" became "egg cream". Because I didn't know what this was going in, I thought you were going to talk about a Cadbury cream egg milkshake.
I was born in New York, and my Father used to work part time in a drug store that had a counter you could buy food and soda, one of the things they sold a lot of was egg creams, and he taught us kids how to make it, it is easy to make.
I suspect it's something that specific to the east coast of the US (possibly the northeast specifically). I'm American, lived in a few places and never heard of it before this - though it sounds good.
Heard egg cream on Danny Phantom.
So as long as a region has had Danny Phantom broadcasted there with the same translation, then no matter where you are the egg cream has heard of.
I mean, if Danny Phantom was your kind of cartoon. ; )
West/Midwest here, never heard of it either.
Cadburry cream egg milkshake sounds like a terrible idea that i woul definitely do
I bet Greg was an adorable baby! He looks so little and innocent sitting at that counter! 🤣😊
My chocolate syrup recipe is very similar to yours, except in our family we always added a teaspoon of instant coffee powder. It doesn’t taste like a mocha, but the chocolate tastes just a little bit richer. I absolutely love your videos. The content is so informative, and your voice is very relaxing - a recipe for catharsis!
The fact you're a kind man, with a great talent...and listen to punk rock makes you my new friend.
Hi Greg I am from Wales 🏴 and the only thing that we got over here is a cadbury's cream egg which is a sort off chocolate bar not a drink, and to be honest they are bloody the best, love them👍 so best wishes for the future to you and your family 👍 and love from Wales ❤️🏴
So it's a chocolate-milk soda.
Love the way you cover history, Greg.
I love how the format of the video is him talking to us like hes our teacher and we just looking up and listening
What an amazing find. This whole concept is foreign to me growing up on the west coast. Something I look forward to experiencing firsthand and sharing with my daughter. Thanks for bringing this to my attention and providing the history of this drink.
Greg's one of the most interesting of RUclipsrs. I would like to just hang out and listen to him all day.
I enjoy 2 spins on this. The first is a mint chocolate version. I suppose you could add mint extract along with vanilla. I usually boil mint leaves while dissolving the sugar for the syrup. Then you make it the egg cream as you normally would . Another version is with dehydrated orange peels or orange zest. The orange citrus acidity contrasts with the chocolate sweetness.
Ever try cherry seltzer, for a chocolate covered cherry egg cream?
William Grantham that sounds really great 🍒
Yum!
The How to Drink crossover bringing this channel more love and support makes me super happy. H2D fans, welcome to candy heaven!
I love Ray! He’s such a sweetie! He’s a fixture in the LES! Greg you were all over my stomping grounds! What more can a gal want than egg creams, Rays Candy, Johnny Thunders, and Lofty Pursuits!
This whole channel is like something you’d watch on Sunday morning on the PBS channel when you’re a kid, and you’re in absolute awe with how cool and and fact filled it is
Who voted this video down?
It's clean, educational, and entertaining. Reminds me of old PBS traveling shows.
Assholes.
The racketeering folks down voted it
Probably because he said you don’t have to use U-bet syrup to make an egg cream. Thems fighting words for some.
Down votes don’t hurt a video. They count as engagement, just like comments. People are allowed to curate their personal algorithm without being vilified. Just chill.
(But also consider the videos you dislike but actually you’ve helped get more viewers by giving them a thumbs down or posting comments)
The chocolate syrup mafia did it
greg is the purest and most wholesome person on this planet
*in prison*
"what you in for fish?"
"uhh... selling chocolate syrup"
The way you looked at the camera after you were handed the drink made me want one instantly, like this has got to be one tasty beverage
Great educational video! I learned so much! Oh, and way to go on the bow tie sponsorship! That's awesome!
I would love to see more soda and seltzer type videos from you. Your insight and enthusiasm is so easy to watch and enjoy. Thanks for the video!
"wooder"
As someone from South Jersey, I love it
I just came from a ChrisFix video, so this makes me giggle.
As someone from Central Jersey, I wish all of you in South Jersey would just talk right.
i remember a fountain in Queens that my dad used to go too when he was younger ( 1950's-60's ) we'd always go there for egg creams , and to a middle eastern store for baklava . haven't been back since the late 1980's . bur still make my own at home. Dad would say to do it right . . . Has to be U'Bet, and has to be seltzer from a distributor with those old blue bottles with the built in metal nozzles. we're big on coke from the bottle too . and those old water chillers . Dad was originally from Sunnyside, and after college he and my mom moved up to Rockland county , just N of NYC . Then to Florida for their retirements, and passing . miss them . and NYC.
Fab video, as always! Very informative and leaving my mouth watering, again. My first order of candy 🍬 has arrived!
NWales in the UK
Thank you for this.
I grew up on egg creams because my grandparents owned "candy stores" in different locations throughout the Bronx back in the 1930s40s, and, though I was born decades after they no longer had them, my grandmother introduced me to the incredible drink sometime during my youth in the 1960s using store-bought seltzer, milk, and Fox's U-Bet chocolate syrup. To this day I consider them a guilty pleasure to be indulged from time to time.
On a side note, my grandparents raised my mother and her sister on the Lower East Side originally, while I myself actually lived there in the lmid-90s and recognize all the modern 2nd Avenue stores pictured here, though I never realized that Gem Spa is an ORIGINAL Lower East landmark. Again, thank you for this.
Got my own ubet's egg cream glass and chocolate syrup, now just to get some seltzer!!
Rebecca Reed the problem with most seltzer is the bottle. Pop the cap, goodbye carbonation. Remember those funny looking Glass bottles with the nozzles from cartoons that sprayed water? THAT's how seltzer should be stored. Holds the carbonation no matter how many times you use it.
Sadly, the only distributor I know of who bottles using this method mainly deals with businesses, as home deliveries are not a sustainable business with all of the carbonated beverage choices available anywhere these days.
Cory Goodman Ah like the one in Spongebob!
@@frankyu553 lol
Hello!!! NYCgirl here….Love a egg-cream🥰. Make them often for me & my kids. Passing the tradition. Happy to stumble upon your channel, just subscribed ❤🎉😂
field trip woo! Really cool to hear about the history of the drink, especially ever since i saw it on food wishes
Also that story from your childhood and that couple complementing you was such a sweet story! Thanks for sharing it with us
Also the fact that your bow ties are sponsored just made me love this channel even more
I learned to make a perfect egg cream in the mid 1980s when I worked as a diner waitress in Colorado Springs. They are luscious! As a newly graduated drama major from Colorado College, I was proud to do so.
I worked in a Ben & Jerry's scoop shop in 1999/2000. Definitely made a few egg creams but never for anyone under the age of 70! 😆
Love this guys passion. I am a believer in people following their passion no matter how obscure. We are all the same species and if it resonates with you, odds are you aren’t alone.
Can you please put up a video with a lot of the cooling table part of candy making
I live in NY, walk past all these places - I never knew the depth of history revolving around the egg cream. Thanks for this!
thanks for the info and recipes!will try now
also can you please make or try Dulce de leche candy?its from argentina and its super creamy and sweet,you would love it
thanks :)
Wow I've never heard of an egg cream so I just typed it in and Bam! A full history and a virtual tour on New York. Thank you!!
I was not expecting to check out a video and hear "wooder", is that a Philly accent? I don't know of anywhere but Philly or the suburbs where people (me included) say "water" as "wooder".
the Baltimore accent also says "wooder" from my experience
Love the story. Brought me back to the early days of when I was living in Brooklyn. I remember my Egg Creams.
You are the modern day Mr Rogers. You need to pitch a show to Netflix!
I finally had my first egg cream at a Pharmacy today, not disappointed. Checked off a bucket-list item that you wrote for me
Now I am seriously craving an egg cream!
I probably first heard about egg creams while reading Harriet the Spy, which I see referenced in the end of your video. I asked my pops, a former Manhattanite whose mother was a life-long deli waitress, how to make one, and he said that started with U-Bet and whole milk, but also that you had to pour the seltzer over the back of a spoon, and then you stir. I'm sure that single instruction is part of the unquantifiable magic that makes the perfect egg cream. Or not. 🙂 Fun video! Thanks for putting it together!
Awesome!.... when I first read this title..I thought you mixed Cadbury’s cream eggs with soda water lol
You show us so many things about our country and different, wonderfully rich traditions… I discovered you looking for a recipe about cinnamon candies with cinnamon oil. I stayed because of the beauty and depth of these wonderful presentations. Thank you so much for doing this and when I’m in Tallahassee I will stop by for those confections.
Ohmahgawd, now chocolate? Your videos get better and better :D
Greg, you should seriously start a podcast! Your voice is so smooth and calming, I love watching your videos while doing homework! I adore all of your videos.
I'm experimenting with things like that. I really don't know much about podcasts. But I am thinking about doing a v blog all weekend long from the New York toy Fair on the lofty Pursuits Facebook page. It won't be live because they have terrible cell reception. And honestly I may be too busy shopping for the store to do it at all but I'm bringing a portable rig with me.
@@LoftyPursuits That would be awesome! I hope you have a good time!
4:50 RIP Gem Spa
I am so happy I found this channel. The candy cane video, the acid drop video, this, the cinnamon hearts video...guys, YOU ARE AMAZING.
We've done about 100 of them. Statistically some must be good ;)
Greg, when you said to Google it, my phone responded and pulled up the Google voice search assistant.
And then everyone got up and started clapping.
Haven't had a soda fountain egg cream since the '60s at Abe & Harold's on Avenue X in Brooklyn. Haven't even made one at home in 40 years. Now I gotta have one!
Putting chocolate syrup and seltzer on my shopping list. Great video. Thanks, Greg.
Your face bleeds kindness idk y
that's often the result of a happy childhood
I haven't had the pleasure of being pointed in your direction for a while; thanks HowToDrink and thanks for making this video.
Question: do y'all in the comments think adding a little bit of raspberry syrup would be good in an egg cream? I'm tempted to get supplies and try
Never had an egg creme, but i dont see why not!! Its always good to experiment and see if it works out
Be careful which raspberry you get… some make the milk curdle…
I've always loved Raspberry Italian sodas, so I can see how adding raspberry would be pretty great!
Just hearing you say "New York Dolls" makes my punk rock heart smile. ☠️🖤 Your knowledge of so many different subjects blows my mind. 🤯
When I was about 14 or 15 I used to sit on a step in Manhattan and talk to Dee Dee Ramone as he humored me and chain-smoked.
I hope the day I finally make it to Lofty Pursuits from California, you have a few minutes to sit and chat with me. I would love to hear some of your stories. Thank you for all you do. Truly.
Please do strawberry-basil hardcandy ; )
I love the dedication to the history! Woulda never known marble dust, sulfuric acid, and construction led to soda becoming a big thing in NY! Thanks!
I got this notification in English where we were going over Julius Caesar’s death
Minty Eggs wow, how cool... jesus kids need to be banned from the internet. Everyone of them wants to let other's know their age and how different they are from kids their age, or the most mundane thing happening to them as they make their comment
Great vid! I had my first Egg Creme in the early 1980s, at the last old drugstore soda fountain in our town, just before it shut down. I'd been reading about the history of soda fountains, soda jerks, professors, all the crazy sounding drinks, and when I heard this place was about to shut it's doors for good I had to pay a visit. I ended up talking to one of the owners who had started working there as a boy and eventually bought into the business, and was happy to talk. He asked what I wanted to try and I said something quintessential...whatever he thought would be the best representation of the art. He suggested an Egg Cream, which I remembered reading about but hadn't really been impressed with the ingredients. He told me the magic was in the making. So he made one for me, and he was definitely right. Since then, I've been an enthusiast and become an aficionado. I love trying them, made by different people, even if they are not so perfect. Even more so, I love making them for people and passing on a bit of history and pleasure from the past. I'm with you on making your own syrup and I get my milk from an Amish Dairy farmer, so it's the richest and most flavorful whole milk. I think if you want to make the best real deal, you HAVE to get a seltzer bottle, unless you have a carbonated streamer. Pouring from a water bottle just doesn't do the trick for getting the best head of froth. Also, I adhere to inserting your stirring spoon before adding your syrup, and stirring vigorously at the bottom while adding the syrup right in the middle, and carefully slipping the spoon up and out at the side. If done just right, a spot of chocolate will remain suspended on the center surface of the milk froth. Does that improve the flavor or quality? Perhaps not, but it's the sort of technique detail that separates a Soda Jerk from a Professor.
this is the only good thing left in this world
I dropped by your shop today. I had my first egg cream. Thank you, it was wonderful. The mushroom candy is outstanding.
So it's like a fizzy chocolate milk? Hm
The history information you drop on every video is always bearable for me. Usually if the presenter doesn't actually have passion for what they say I'll just zone out. But you do like it so much that it let's me enjoy to hear what you say
I can't tell you how much I appreciate this video. Thank you for doing what you do
Hey Greg, I had a cheapskate boss that accidentally created one of my favorite soda type drinks. This was out west and I imagine you probably have something similar if Florida, but I'll pass it along anyway.
He made Sweet Tea concentrate just like many places did. But he did two things differently that made it go from "That is tasty" to "That is amazing!"
Originally he was using 100 tea bags to make 1 gallon of concentrate, which would then make 10 gallons of tea. But then he got a whole bunch of Apples and Cinnamon tea. So he made the concentrate with 90 tea bags of cheap black tea and 10 of the Apples and Cinnamon. Which by itself became very popular. So we sold a lot more.
Since we went through so much, people wanted it both sweetened and unsweetened. So instead of getting a second large beverage coolers to mix it, we would pour the concentrate into a glass and add simple syrup if they wanted it sweet. But then the bartender started accidentally doing that but adding carbonated water instead.
So in the end we had a fizzy, sweet, apple and cinnamon flavored iced tea. People loved it.
Oh this sounds great
Oh it is. What was great was not only was it a wonderful beverage, it was actually cheaper than Kool-aid to make. Not counting the sugar it cost $6 to make enough for 10 gallons, for something we were selling for $2 a glass.
If you decide you want to try and sell it, just remember to add either some vitamin C or a little lemon juice. I found at home when I made it it goes bad after only a couple days if you don't. The place I was working we sold enough that it didn't matter.
I like how this guy goes on location and doesn't take the lazy way by just showing slides.
I do like these soda fountain videos as much as the candy making. I like the old-school soda fountain stuff.
I have never had an egg cream but the way you describe it I could almost taste it you are a great storyteller
Great piece of American history! Those soda fountains are rare today-I haven't seen one in years. Always thought that an egg cream had to be made with Foxe's "U-Bet" chocolate syrup! Thanks for the great history and presentation...I liked the bit about reading the comic books on the shelf-until the owner threw you out! I did that as a kid!
Thanks for this video, Greg! I never knew about this particular drink. I'm in Mexico, and it'sreally fascinating to know a lot about a drink I've just come to know! I know I'm gonna make some egg creams for March the 15th!
Thanks a lot for teaching us the history of candy and soda fountains! It's really fascinating!
After long stressful days, I love coming home and watching your videos. They are soothing and relaxing and highly entertaining. When Im home with my boys on the weekends, we can spend hours watching you make candy. Thank you for taking the time to make these :)
I love that you have your candy making outfit on while touring NY! This is an awesome video, and your quality is getting better and better with each upload, well done!
This is the most wholesome and good person on the internet
I love this video! Egg creams were something this PNW kid discovered through Harriet the Spy. I then led my mother through numerous recipes for chocolate egg creams, searching for our favorite. She had worked in a soda fountain in high school, so had far more background knowledge than I. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!
Great video! Got my egg creams at Buffs Luncheonette in Richmond Hill Queens, 101st Ave. not there anymore but when I was a kid it was THE CANDY STORE
I love your channel. I used to live in Florida but never had an opportunity to visit your store! I hope that changes one day !!!!
Please do more oral history videos! Your voice anf wealth of knowledge are fantastic!
One of my favorite videos of yours! Little fun fact: The German spring mentioned is actually called "Selters" and I've read some accounts of people who think that the current US spelling, "Seltzer", appeared because people had trouble pronouncing it correctly.
your videos are just great to watch. Very informative and a voice that could read audio books
Yes, very soothing voice!
I love that I found this, I get my car serviced at Proctor Subaru, now I have a place to treat myself to when I'm in town!
A true NY classic... love how you were compared to the gold standard... and of course... only u-bet.... without that it's not an egg cream... great video 😀👏👏👏💙
Now this is a man that enjoys a good Eggcream. Thanks for the video candyman, I learned something new today.
If you're ever back around that area; 5:03 Paul's Da Burger Joint is awesome. One of my favorite burger spots in NYC
It is somehow very cool that Lou Reed wrote a song about egg creams. A friend plays his "Take a Walk On the Wild Side" as a starting point for a playlist every time we are together, and it's always a fun musical trip down memory lane.
Amazing. Thanks for the history lesson, Greg! 😊 How wonderful it is to be complimented on your egg cream by the couple who lived above the shop in Brooklyn.
I used to make an awful lot of egg creams when I was a waitress in a 50s style Diner. They are refreshing and satisfying and just delicious! As a theater director, it makes me really happy to know the theater connection to the egg cream! I directed a show just a few blocks away from where you were on the Lower East Side. :-)
Greg from How to drink put me onto your channel and im glad he did.
Can you post a link to where he give the shout out.
Nevermind found it and we've already been in touch.
Absolutely fantastic video, really enjoyed the history, from someone who grew up in NYC.
Here in Cleveland the sweet treat to have back in the day was the Higbees Frosted Malt served at Higbees dept. store. There is a long fabled story of how that treat came to be. It is worth the research! It can still be had at Webers vintage ice cream (custard) shop. (the originator of the treat). Loved this story of another fabled concoction.
Thanks to this video I went out to try Chocolate egg creams out in NYC. Thank you for the history on these drinks and the great content!
I love this greg. I'm from england and I love this Americana.