Japanese dish of shaved ice topped with sauces, flavorings, fruit or sweetened condensed milk.
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The ice cream float — also known as a coke float, soda float, root beer float, or, in Australia and New Zealand, a "spider" — was invented by Robert McCay Green in Philadelphia, PA, in 1874. Some sources say he ran out of ice for his drinks and opted to use vanilla ice cream instead. According to Sundae Best: A History of Soda Fountains, Green was making cream sodas when he ran out of cream. He dashed to a nearby ice cream shop and filled his pitchers with ice cream, planning to use it in the drinks after it melted But with demand from customers rising he started making the drinks with scoops of frozen ice cream. Floats were popular at soda fountains and during Prohibition; they remain on menus at ice cream shops throughout the U.S.
