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.

@mahamsaleem3876

6 жыл бұрын

Do you have a location in NY??? Will you!?!?!?

@LuisGMartinez106

6 жыл бұрын

Just a random question, is here any chance you know diabetic candy recipes?

@Spartansrule3

6 жыл бұрын

i learn more from u than in 1 history lesson

@firefox5926

5 жыл бұрын

0:15 gah then it is an abomination against god and all right thinking peoples :P

@hipflask

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@MurcuryEntertainment

6 жыл бұрын

I mean dang you could just call it lofty pursuits!

@mrjlstarks

5 жыл бұрын

Not sure I would watch a show about watching heat rise....

@BeanDip125

5 жыл бұрын

@@mrjlstarks jajajjajaja

@ossimjew

5 жыл бұрын

With all the endless amount of shows netflix seems to greenlight it could be a very real possibility.

@LoftyPursuits

5 жыл бұрын

I need an agent or producer who is cleared with nexflix.

Greg is the best, he's the Bob Ross of candy making.

@MiaMariaSiler

5 жыл бұрын

YES

@tannermeche7968

5 жыл бұрын

Thank u for giving us this gift and opening my eyes

@omsnaga

5 жыл бұрын

Greg is the wholesome medicine we need after a whole day of social media-ing

@jamesmorrison7847

4 жыл бұрын

Does Greg make "happy little tree"candy?

@TheMightyPika

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmorrison7847 vote for happy tree candy for Bob Ross's birthday!

Greg from HowToDrink lead me here

@DaftBrian1

4 жыл бұрын

DeathBahamutXXX 1000%

@Hexendrucken

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@davidbathy87

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@JamesW81

4 жыл бұрын

I've been watching LP videos for a while, but he did direct me to this one!

@erderene

4 жыл бұрын

me as well and I like it here! :)

I FOUND YOU AGAIN. IDK WHY BUT FOR SOME REASON YOU DISAPPEARED UNTIL HOW TO DRINK BROUGHT ME BACK.

@shan0802

3 жыл бұрын

Yip! Me too!

You could really make a charming home historical candymaking book with these sorts of anecdotes and little history lessons, you know.

@MadameM.

5 жыл бұрын

I'm starting to think Greg could do anything!

This man has a very soft and amiable demeanor. I trust him.

@terminator572

4 жыл бұрын

He just seems so trustworthy and friendly doesn't he?

@Pikastash3

4 жыл бұрын

@@terminator572 Yeah. No to mention he hand-makes candy!

*in prison* "what you in for fish?" "uhh... selling chocolate syrup"

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

@ssheeessh

5 жыл бұрын

Ahhh I want to get one of the Unicorn Droppings so badly! Alas i'm in CT :( How did you like it?

@robertcowley-yamamoto4880

4 жыл бұрын

@@ssheeessh Old comment I know, but maybe see if you can order some from them online? They do online sales

@ssheeessh

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertcowley-yamamoto4880 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

Did KZread 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.

Sent over by How to Drink, loved watching this! Definitely a great subscribe, and I'm looking forward to watching more!

Woah!!!!! I want to know more about the hotel sniper at 7:23 he used buckshot and got away in the middle of NYC

@LysanderIII

4 жыл бұрын

nationalist818 I was just thinking that

I bet Greg was an adorable baby! He looks so little and innocent sitting at that counter! 🤣😊

This guy makes me want to enjoy learning about my nations history again! Awesome video!

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.

@shayshaylee5380

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@Rebby2000

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@consuellarodriguez5789

5 жыл бұрын

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. ; )

@xMasterSparku

4 жыл бұрын

West/Midwest here, never heard of it either.

@abilawaandamari8366

4 жыл бұрын

Cadburry cream egg milkshake sounds like a terrible idea that i woul definitely do

Who voted this video down? It's clean, educational, and entertaining. Reminds me of old PBS traveling shows.

@barbatosmcmurderton4209

4 жыл бұрын

Assholes.

@TropicanaThunda

3 жыл бұрын

The racketeering folks down voted it

@RachelBateman

3 жыл бұрын

Probably because he said you don’t have to use U-bet syrup to make an egg cream. Thems fighting words for some.

@vysharra

3 жыл бұрын

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)

@LynnHermione

2 жыл бұрын

The chocolate syrup mafia did it

The fact you're a kind man, with a great talent...and listen to punk rock makes you my new friend.

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!

greg is the purest and most wholesome person on this planet

So it's a chocolate-milk soda. Love the way you cover history, Greg.

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! 😆

The How to Drink crossover bringing this channel more love and support makes me super happy. H2D fans, welcome to candy heaven!

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 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!

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.

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.

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.

@disciplebill

5 жыл бұрын

Ever try cherry seltzer, for a chocolate covered cherry egg cream?

@bellakatherman1477

5 жыл бұрын

William Grantham that sounds really great 🍒

@Dyzrae

5 жыл бұрын

Yum!

That neighborhood is one of the oldest in New York city. At that time the vestiges of the Dutch colony still defined much of the atmosphere.

"wooder" As someone from South Jersey, I love it

@CardboardSliver

4 жыл бұрын

I just came from a ChrisFix video, so this makes me giggle.

@IncredibleMD

3 жыл бұрын

As someone from Central Jersey, I wish all of you in South Jersey would just talk right.

Greg's one of the most interesting of KZreadrs. I would like to just hang out and listen to him all day.

I live in NY, walk past all these places - I never knew the depth of history revolving around the egg cream. Thanks for this!

You are the modern day Mr Rogers. You need to pitch a show to Netflix!

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!

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

Fab video, as always! Very informative and leaving my mouth watering, again. My first order of candy 🍬 has arrived! NWales in the UK

Now I am seriously craving an egg cream!

Just hearing you say "New York Dolls" makes my punk rock heart smile. ☠️🖤 Your knowledge of so many different subjects blows my mind. 🤯

@LoftyPursuits

5 жыл бұрын

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.

@daniaguinaga1754

5 жыл бұрын

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.

as an australian iv never heard of a egg cream thank you for sharing :)

field trip woo! Really cool to hear about the history of the drink, especially ever since i saw it on food wishes

@nicolle2126

6 жыл бұрын

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

Got my own ubet's egg cream glass and chocolate syrup, now just to get some seltzer!!

@CGoody564

6 жыл бұрын

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.

@frankyu553

5 жыл бұрын

Cory Goodman Ah like the one in Spongebob!

@evieinfinite

5 жыл бұрын

@@frankyu553 lol

I can't tell you how much I appreciate this video. Thank you for doing what you do

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.

Ohmahgawd, now chocolate? Your videos get better and better :D

Awesome!.... when I first read this title..I thought you mixed Cadbury’s cream eggs with soda water lol

I dropped by your shop today. I had my first egg cream. Thank you, it was wonderful. The mushroom candy is outstanding.

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, when you said to Google it, my phone responded and pulled up the Google voice search assistant.

@snepNL

5 жыл бұрын

And then everyone got up and started clapping.

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 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.

Please do more oral history videos! Your voice anf wealth of knowledge are fantastic!

Can you please put up a video with a lot of the cooling table part of candy making

Your face bleeds kindness idk y

@abujabi

5 жыл бұрын

that's often the result of a happy childhood

Love videos like this and kudos to you for remembering the past, and cherishing the knowledge and impact that those that have passed had. That is so lacking these days, and its awesome to see.

Thanks for this and every video. They are great and we love to watch them and share them!

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".

@williamscerbo458

5 жыл бұрын

the Baltimore accent also says "wooder" from my experience

Please do strawberry-basil hardcandy ; )

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!

Recipe tastes great! Your videos are *amazing!* the mix of history, personal stories, and candy making is perfect.

I got this notification in English where we were going over Julius Caesar’s death

@NEprimo

6 жыл бұрын

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

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

@LunarRaevyn

5 жыл бұрын

Never had an egg creme, but i dont see why not!! Its always good to experiment and see if it works out

@Dyzrae

5 жыл бұрын

Be careful which raspberry you get… some make the milk curdle…

@thatoneasiankid8734

4 жыл бұрын

I've always loved Raspberry Italian sodas, so I can see how adding raspberry would be pretty great!

This was incredible! The shots from New York and all the history was so fun! Fantastic job!

Love the story. Brought me back to the early days of when I was living in Brooklyn. I remember my Egg Creams.

this is the only good thing left in this world

So it's like a fizzy chocolate milk? Hm

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.

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 :)

This was great, Greg. What a fantastic blend of food history and holiday. Keep up the great work.

Thank you for making such a special video! What a wonderful tribute to egg creams and their history!

It's very apparent you're passionate about confections and so awesome to see that translated into a video. Very informative and interesting watch!

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 can't drink an egg cream without thinking of my grandfather. He absolutely loved them!!

Fannnnntastic. This was a wonderful video; informative and entertaining. Greg you've really got a great hand at these videos!

I live in Peterborough UK, your wonderful video made it all the way to me and I am going to make this drink tomorrow. Thanks mate

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!

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!!

It's always exciting to see a new video from y'all. Thank you.

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Yiddish Theater, and a good ol' Racket.... I love history! Thanks!

This is definitely one of my favorite videos you’ve done so far! Thank you so much!

I have never had an egg cream but the way you describe it I could almost taste it you are a great storyteller

From the midwest here! Never heard of this before, im absolutley gonna try for myself. Thank you so much for this vid!!!

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.

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 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!

This is a wonderful videos! Thanks for the experience and amazing historic photos ❤️👍🏼

This video is great! I love learning new things, and it's awesome to see you physically at these places! Great work!

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. :-)

All your videos are fun to watch, but this one is particularly delightful. Thank you!

I love your videos, Greg. This one is especially close to home--I still remember my dad introducing me to the egg cream at a place on Staten Island where I grew up. Thanks for this!

I lived in Brooklyn. One of the great memories. Thank you.

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!

I love getting these history lessons! Very well made!👍👍👍

Most excellent Egg Cream mini documentary!

What a fantastic video! I’d never heard the history of the drink before. Fascinating stuff!

I love these videos so much! Your voice is perfect commentary to delicious sweets!

Candys, drinks, and history my favorite things!

Neat! Thanks for the history lesson- I didn't think there was so much to learn about a drink I only know in passing, but I think I will happily join y'all in making and enjoying an egg cream this year!

Wow. I didn't even know about this. What a great video. I love your passion!

Really interesting video, I loved the history lesson. Congrats on your sponsor!