after adding the right soda to some plain ol’ vanilla ice cream, I’d be hooked. I just don’t want that soda to be root beer. Let’s start by talking about what a Boston Cooler is not.

[Paul] himself has tried the dry ice in a cooler full of root beer method. The problem is that the cooler isn’t pressurized so the carbonation level is very low. You need to have cold ...

However, unlike the root beer float, the Boston Cooler consists of the two ingredients — ice cream and ginger ale — being blended, rather than just the soda being poured over the scoops of ice ...