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Black Cow Day
The tenth day of June is National Black Cow Day. Legend has it that the drink dessert started on August 19, 1893, so I’m not sure why that Black Cow Day isn’t August 19th, but I understand that in August, there IS a National Root Beer Float day. (Sounds like a trick to me.)
According to NationalDayCalendar.com (and several other sources, but they were my first choice) Frank J. Wisner owned Cripple Creek Brewing Company in Colorado and came up with the root beer float and called it a Black Cow. Mr. Wisner was looking out of the window of the Brewery and saw two things. You’d think one of them was a cow, right? I don’t know if there was a cow, but there was a view of Cow Mountain from the window, and as luck would have it, that night, Frank Wisner saw a full moon, and don’t ask me why, but when he saw the moon, it reminded him a little of vanilla ice cream. (Will you ever look at the moon the same way again?)
He went to the soda fountain, scooped vanilla ice cream in a nice tall glass and poured root beer over over it. He called it Black Cow Mountain Float, but it shortened to Black Cow. It was a huge hit. I like root beer, but I can’t remember if I’ve tried root beer float, aka. Black Cow.
Actually, I thought Black Cow was Coke (or Pepsi) over vanilla ice cream, now that, I do love, and those are called Brown Cows. I do…
