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3. The Leonard Cohen line was a little bit of a non-sequitur, but

Tue Sep 19, 2023, 04:28 PM

Sep 2023

now the song is in my head. ( " I remember you well at the Chelsea Hotel..." )

But this part!

It had no egg or cream. Egg possibly came from the Yiddish echt ("genuine or real" . So Egg Cream essentially meant "good cream."

My mind is blown! One of the great mysteries of life is solved!!! (PS: They're good with Hershey's syrup too.)

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Great, long one from The Old New York Page: [View all] elleng Sep 2023 OP

Egg creams! Loved 'em. calimary Sep 2023 #1

MANY articles have been written about Egg Creams! elleng Sep 2023 #2

The Leonard Cohen line was a little bit of a non-sequitur, but Scrivener7 Sep 2023 #3

HAHAHA! elleng Sep 2023 #4

I kind of did so (last week, anyway; now, elleng Sep 2023 #7

Echt GUT!!! elleng Sep 2023 #6