I remember a relative always getting egg cream when visiting New York City. It's a simple tasty beverage consisting of 3 ingredients: whole milk, chocolate syrup and seltzer water. There is no egg or cream in the recipe despite the name ! Read more !! The drink stayed fizzy a few minutes and had a mellow satisfying flavor. Fox's and U-bet were the chocolate brands of choice in making egg cream Modern versions of egg cream have wonderful flavors such as black cherry, mango, vanilla etc. although chocolate is the original choice.