Cream soda in cafes, cream soda consists of soda water, vanilla syrup, and cream or half and half. Popular brands include: Another variety is referred to as Italian cream soda. Despite the name, this drink originated in the US, not in Italy. The name is due to it being a form of Italian soda. Italian cream soda is usually a mixture of carbonated water, vanilla syrup, and added half and half or cream. Ratios vary widely, but the taste is usually that of sweetened, flavored milk. In Canada, cream soda is mostly pink (except in Quebec and Newfoundland, where it is sold
No-Cal Soda No-Cal Soda No-Cal was the first zero-calorie soda. Marketed to diabetics, not dieters, in a number of flavors, the most popular being black cherry. Hyman Kirsch and his son Morris, both Russian immigrants living in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, began selling sodas in 1904. Their involvement with the Jewish Sanitarium for Chronic Disease (now known as Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center), led them to the invention of a sugar-free drink to meet the needs of the hospital’s diabetic patients. Hyman and Morris developed a line of carbonated, sugar-free, zero-calorie soft drinks which they called No-Cal, that they began