What Is an Egg Cream and Why Is It So Jewish?

[SouthernLiberal]

7. I remember egg creams

I lived in the south Bronx until I was almost 13. We had two shops very close to our building, one large and profitable, the other small and dark. It was that small dark shop that welcomed kids who would spend our allowance on two comic books and a chocolate egg cream.

The big shop sold candy, though, and could make ice cream sodas. That was where we went when mom or dad was paying.

We moved to NJ that year, just in time for me to become a teenager. It was nothing like the Bronx. I haven't had a real bagel since. Did talk a chain lunch and ice cream shop into making egg creams once