its cooling off here
however , I thought I read somewhere on this thread
that ' malt ( syrup ? ) was made w malted grain and dried milk
and i can't find that ref.
there are regional differences
or at least used to be ( pre Click-Return )
a milkshake always had ice cream , and the flavor of the ice cream
determined the name of the milkshake ie chocolate , vanilla , strawberry
' malted ' as a single word was not used to describe a milk beverage
it was always malted milk,
if malted syrup was added to a milkshake , it was called
a malted milkshake.
there are lots of common ordinary terms
that are quite different on each coast.
Im unfamiliar w the middle of the country
except for the Time I served in Chicago
and I don't remember any significant differences
but i was very busy
When I went to college in the East
bits of language seemed quite foreign to me
but as the vast majority of students at that college were
from the East , I was considered the foreigner .
one other student in my dorm was from California
but he was from LA
a foreign country enough , if you grew up in N.CA.
