Forget pre-mixed rootbeer floats...this nifty little gadget takes floats to the next level.The Fizz is, essentially, a cheap plastic domed lid with an opening in the middle that holds a straw and is able to suck up liquids without letting them seep out.
As per the video on the item's website, appropriately set to the tune of Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough," the soda enthusiast simply scoops ice cream into the plastic resevoir, screws the lid onto the top of a plastic soda bottle (looks like it has to be plastic, not metal or aluminum), and squeezes the bottle, sucking part of the liquid into the vessel where it mixes with the ice cream for a no-mess float on the go.
This product immediately lost some of its appeal once I realized what it reminds me of: the ACT brand mouthwash that the dentist made me use when I was younger, which also involves squeezing liquid into a plastic resevoir at the top of a bottle.
I immediately thought of using the product to fix a root beer float (probably because that's what the website used as an example, and sometimes I'm easily swayed, especially when it involves refined sugar) but the website offers some other suggestions for flavor combos, including strawberry sherbet/lemon-lime soda, vanilla yogurt/orange soda, or crushed ice and flavored syrup.
If I haven't completely turned you off yet, what do you think? Yay or nay on the soda float-on-the-go?
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3-14-2008 @ 11:30AM
jen Montgomery said...
I wrote about this on my blog:
"This seems like a pretty ghetto contraption to me and the website leaves me with a lot of questions: What happens after you screw on "The Fizz Cup?" When you squeeze the bottle, do you get a perfect ratio of ice cream/soda? Isn't it top heavy? Can you set it down on a table without it falling over? Why does their background image look more like orange bang with ice than root beer float froth?"
http://oldglutton.blogspot.com/2008/02/questionable-root-beer-float-invention.html
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3-14-2008 @ 8:46PM
badfrog said...
We nagged our parents to buy us a pair of these 45 years ago when the local kiddie show hosts flogged them for two weeks. They are extremely tasty, but if you put them into a full bottle the fizz will explode out of the top nozzle, especially if the soda is warm. We learned to decant half into a used bottle, and it worked very well, however, there is always quite a bit of ice cream left, which needs to be eaten with a spoon. Frankly, a traditional ice cream float is better, and less of a mess.
It also worked well with mastodon milk, but the wooly rhinocerous gave us a pretty hard time...
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3-14-2008 @ 8:46PM
Kitt said...
Wow, that looks really lame. Add it to your superfluous kitchen tools lineup.
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3-17-2008 @ 8:37PM
love2cook said...
ha badfrog
i think this will be a hit in the hot summer. i wonder the same thing about tipping over.
http://organicandnaturalmom.blogspot.com/
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