Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

| chocolate ice cream soda-with vanilla
cream.
Nothing is more disturbing to the
soda fan" than to find only a few
| teaspoonflls of soda in the bottom of
| the glass. Even those few gulps are
good. but the expert desires to be re-
| warded with many good gulp He
knows that there is plenty of room in
, the average glass for both cream and
| liquid. He resents fig" covering up a
paucity of either.
r X X X
The curious thing about the choco-
late ice cream soda is that the more
| it costs the worse It is. The best ones
to be secured usually come at a mod
crate prize, while one must invariably
be suspicious of those at fancy prices.
In the old days the nickel soda" was
, the best.
Even today one occasionally runs
upon a place where a real soda is
served for cents Because the choco-
| late soda Is the basis Of the trade, the
dispensers usually serve as good ones
as they can. One is safer ordering this
mixture than any other.
From a dietetic standpoint the choco-
| late ice cream soda appears to be en-
tirely harmless. 1t is amazing how
many of them q person In average
health can consume In a day without
the slightest feeling of remorse.
A prominent Washingtonian recently
| went on a chocolate ice cream soda
spree" All his life he had held in
leash his appetite for this beverage,
food, or what you will
| Never within his memory had he ever
| eaten or drunk more than one of them
| in single day. That afternoon he
began with two. and from then on
ordered himself one every time he hap
pened to be near a drug store.
| What was his arnazement, late in the
| evening, to discover that the mixtures
had sat" extremely we'll, that he never
| felt better in his life, and that he de-
manded no other food.
He is now considering living entirely
on chocolate ice cream sodas for
week Just to see how this beneficent
concoction would stand up over a
| longer period.
Perhaps nine out Of ten consumers de-
mand vanilla ice cream" when they
| ask for the time-honored soda of sodas
| There is something about vanilla
cream which goes with chocolate
sirup; the two together make one OF
| the worlds favorite tastes. Chocolate
cream in chocolate liquid Is bit toe
muCn OF gOOu CnlnR.
One Of the good points to the sodas
is that few persons feel called upon to
| go the limit as our friend outlined
above.
One soda a day is enough for the
average person. Usually this comes in
the middle Of the afternoon, when
there seems to be normal demand fol
something to eat.
The chocolate ice cream soda fills the
bill nicely. 1t lacks the urge, If one
may call 1t, OF stronger drinks. One
must be moderate This, 1t would
seem, is one of the good points in Its
favor. With the exception of some
such person as instanced above, who
'cuts loose" on a soda spree" your
average consumer has no inclination
to be a hog This is because a soda is
filling" 1t is not all "froth" by any
means. It belongs in the class of those
good things which cheer but do not
inebriate, as the poet said. The de-
mand for it is so universal that good
one may be purchased almost any
where. Even the smallest crossroads
| store serves a good chocolate soda.