Coke Floats

The coke float may be one of the best things I’ve ever tasted.  I’ve been thinking of ways to describe it for over a week now and nothing seems to fit exactly.  Every simile and every metaphor are too much of a cliché,  How do you describe a taste that makes you forget about tasting anything at all and instead transforms you into the very cloud you were hoping to savor, a cloud to float carelessly and carefree above the earth?  That’s how powerful and flavorful a coke float is.  It’s pure happiness in a glass. 

But how does it taste? It is the perfect blend of flavor – cool vanilla cream with the sweet zip of carbonated coca cola.  When the ice cream starts to melt into the coke, the flavors fold into one another just as if that was the desired effect.  The coke and the ice cream are that perfect couple who bring out the best in each other: the cool, calm, and collected character side by side with an interesting, inspiring, and intoxicating individual. Perfection.

I’ve tried two different types of ice cream in my floats: Dreyer’s Vanilla and Blue Bell Country Vanilla.  They are both extremely creamy, but in different ways.  Dreyer’s has that soft serve texture that just melts in your mouth (and your coke!) and has a clean vanilla taste.  Blue Bell has a much richer vanilla flavor that makes me wonder why I never splurged on ice cream more often.  It makes me regret missing out on these delicious flavors for most of my life.  But that’s ok.  I plan on making up for it this summer!