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Cream soda and milk: A Taste of Home (West Indian)
Narper
2020-03-28 14:36:08
Get a glass, a nice wide glass or a tall glass. Throw in a few ice cubes. Open a bottle of Banks DIH’s I-CEE’s Cream Soda and pour it into the glass, letting the drink cascade over the ice. Fill the glass with drink just shy of three-quarters. Now take your favourite brand of full cream evaporated milk (Nestle’s Carnation if you have) and pour some thick creamy milk into the glass. Watch admiringly, with a smile on your face, as the milk filters down into the glass and mixes with the drink.
Take a spoon, a drink stirrer or your index finger if you like and swirl the ice that is now floating at the top of the glass to mix the soda and the milk. If you used your finger, suck it and then put the glass to your mouth, tilt your head back, close your eyes if you like, and take a long drink.
Be warned, you might want to have it all in one go. If you had it all in one go, that is you finished the glass of drink, you might find yourself staring at the empty glass with a broad smile on your face, feeling happy in the moment. If you managed to control yourself and still have some drink in the glass, you might look at the glass, give it a shake and with a smile on your face, down the rest of it.
Happy. It is such a wonderfully sweet taste of home, and for some of us, one that is filled with nostalgia.
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maj
2020-03-28 14:39:59
In reply to Narper
Sounds good but my dad adds nutmeg to his mix. 
Narper
2020-03-28 14:40:09
When I was a kid we used Banks DIH’s I-CEE’s Cream Soda too in the Mudland.
My wifey used Solo Cream Soda in Trinidad.
Wow....it has been a very long time I haven't tasted this mix 
WestDem
2020-03-28 14:43:17
In reply to Narper
Bhai, those were the good ole days... I use top it up with tennis roll and cheese (GPC) 
Narper
2020-03-28 14:43:37
Narper
2020-03-28 14:49:33
In reply to WestDem
with tennis roll and cheese
Uniquely Guyanese
You know we get the tennis roll here in Toronto....but I cant reproduce the mudland tennis roll and cheese taste because the cheeses here are different
maj
2020-03-28 14:51:57
In reply to Narper
Wifey still makes it on a warm Sunday.
You're right tough to only have one glass.
Curtis
2020-03-28 16:58:56
In reply to Narper
Oiy what is the best cream soda brand in Toronto? I goh try this today. Cyaan find Icee
BeatDball
2020-03-28 17:00:35
In reply to Narper
jacksparrow
2020-03-28 17:01:53
Cold Cream Soda and 2 Chinee cake was my favorite during those childhood days, heck even now I indulge infrequently with the copies here in NYC
Maispwi
2020-03-28 19:32:50
Ever try it wid condensed milk?
Kay
2020-03-28 19:37:39
Wasn't this we called 'mixture'?
Kay
2020-03-28 19:42:37
In reply to Narper
but I cant reproduce the mudland tennis roll and cheese taste because the cheeses here are different
Norman Sue tennis roll is the original man. Just get a slab of Fontina cheese, very close to the Dutch head cheese you used to get back in the days in mudland ….
Narper
2020-03-28 19:46:11
In reply to Curtis
Oiy what is the best cream soda brand in Toronto? I goh try this today. Cyaan find Icee
No Frills and Fresco carrying trini Solo Cream Soda
Narper
2020-03-28 19:49:22
In reply to Maispwi
Ever try it wid condensed milk?
Try a young coconut with the very soft jelly...add condensed milk and swizzle all of it....very tasty
Narper
2020-03-28 19:56:08
In reply to Kay
Dutch head cheese you used to get back in the days in mudland
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I believe in Guyana we used to get NZ cheddar cheese..for me that was the popular cheese to use with tennis roll....it was a softer cheese...I guess because of the climate in Guyana...and it was not normally refrigerated
YoungWarrior
2020-03-28 19:57:37
In reply to Narper
If I remember correctly we used to call this “buffalo” in Berbice
