WELCOME TO THE FRANKLIN FOUNTAIN! We’re mighty pleased to have you join us, even though we’re not smiling {this tintype took an awful long time to stand for}. Please soak in the ambiance, take time to peruse the menu you’re holding and feel free to make inquiry of any of our splendid soda jerks. We’re at your service. 1 OUR VALUES & MIssION Our Ice Creams, Toppings and Baked Goods are made in-house from scratch recipes. We employ real, live persons to churn, freeze, steep, knead, and cook wholesome confectionery foods from the highest quality ingredients. Our staff is the engine that drives the business, and every dollar earned goes towards supporting an American job. Milk and cream is obtained by contented, grass-fed cows close to home, procured from a 1926 family dairy. Fruits are local when in season and regularly preserved for year-round use. Nuts are freshly roasted in South Philadelphia. Chocolate is processed and sourced from Guittard Chocolate Company, founded in San Francisco in 1868. Our rooftop apiary and herb garden at Shane’s supplements honey and spice ingredients. We use natural dyes and flavors wherever possible. Ice cream cones are the greenest food packaging around! All of our paper pails, spoons, napkins, straws and natural cups are biodegradable and will not damage the earth. The Franklin Fountain aims to serve an experience steeped in ideals, drizzled with drollery, and sprinkled with the forgotten f lavors of the American past. 2 CONTENTS Sundaes . 4 Flavors . 6 Toppings . 8 College Ice . 9 Splits . 10 Seasonal . 12 Milk Shakes . 15 Egg Creams . 16 Phosphates . 17 Thirst-Ades . 17 Floats . 18 Sodas . 19 History . 20 FAQs . 24 3 SUNDAES The Franklin Mint . $1150 MINT CHIP and VANILLA BEAN ice creams engraved in CHOCOLATE SYRUP, fluffy MARSHMALLOW GLAZE, and FRESH MINT SYRUP, finished with house-made WHIPPED CREAM and a MINT CHOCOLATE COIN from Shane Confectionery. “Nothing tastes sweeter than Honey, save Money” - Poor Richard. Homemade Hot Fudge . $10 Two dipperfuls of Philadelphia VANILLA BEAN ice cream drowned in Franklin Fountain HOT FUDGE and topped with our fresh WHIPPED CREAM and a BORDEAUX CHERRY - An American icon. We make our hot fudge fresh using dark chocolate, churned smooth with fresh local milk, cream, and butter, then cooked on-site in an antique copper candy kettle. Honest ingredients are the best policy for flavor. The Lightning Rod . $12 A battery of DARK CHOCOLATE BROWNIE PIECES charged with COFFEE ice cream, amidst clouds of WHIPPED CREAM, raining a SHOT of ESPRESSO and zapped by CHOCOLATE COVERED ESPRESSO BEANS, WHITE CHOCOLATE SHAVINGS and conducted by a SALTY PRETZEL ROD. {pretzel rod contains gluten} This invention will surely electrify even the most enervated. The Mt. Vesuvius . $12 A mountain of CHOCOLATE or VANILLA ice cream erupting in CHOCOLATE BROWNIE boulders, cascading with HOT FUDGE, and blanketed in MALT POWDER. A dollop of WHIPPED CREAM indicates her smoking signal. A true display of Pompeii-an circumstance. {Brownies & malt powder contain Gluten.} Peach Melba Parfait . $1050 A solo act of fresh PEACH ice cream dressed in a curtain of RASPBERRY COMPOTE, bejeweled with ALMONDS, and encircled with a necklace of ruffled WHIPPED CREAM. Following soprano Nellie Melba’s performance of Wagner’s Lohengrin in 1893, French chef Auguste Escoffier was moved to create an exquisite dessert for Dame Nellie. 4 Sundaes can also be made to carry out. The Southern Belle . $12 RUM RAISIN and PISTACHIO ice creams smothered in sweet hot CARAMEL and studded with CANDIED CAYENNE PECANS and PISTACHIOS upon a WHIPPED CREAM bonnet. This Franklin Fountain original is as pretty as a sweet-talking Louisiana Girl in her Sunday best. Maple Leaf Rag . $1050 Two dipperfuls of CHOCOLATE or CARAMELIZED BANANA ice cream are shellacked in pure MAPLE WALNUTS, the syncopated sweetness cut by The Sting of prickly PINEAPPLE, crushed fresh, all keyed up with WHIPPED CREAM. An homage to Scott Joplin’s popular 1899 piano ballad. The Stock Market Crunch . $1150 ROCKY ROAD ice cream bonded in thick PEANUT BUTTER SAUCE, balanced by crisp SALTED PRETZELS, and secured by fresh WHIPPED CREAM and a BORDEAUX CHERRY. {pretzels contain gluten} William Dreyer and Joseph Edy concocted the first batch of Rocky Road ice cream in 1929 following the great stock market crash to give consumers something to Smile about during the impending Depression. Broken Hearts . $11 “...place VANILLA ice cream on a 6-inch plate. Cover the ice cream with fresh, sweetened, and slightly mashed STRAWBERRIES, and over these put sweetened WHIPPED CREAM; top off with two whole STRAWBERRIES and serve with two WAFERS. Sells for 20 cents.” {wafers contain gluten} {F. Varney, Dispenser’s Formulary, 1910} Looking for Banana Splits? See Page 10. 5 ICE CREAM by the cup or cone Small $550 {One Flavor Only} Medium $7 {Up to Two Flavors} Large $9 {Up to Three Flavors} 50 Large cones require a waff le cone. {$2 add’tl} Waffle Cone {$250 add’tl} Cake Cone Sugar Cone Vanilla Bean: Philadelphia Style; local Cream, Milk and Sugar with real Vanilla Chocolate: made with Dutch Cocoas, rich and dark Whirly Berley: Chocolate with Honey Nougat, Salted Chocolate Caramel, Cocoa Nibs Rocky Road: Chocolate with Almonds and house-made Marshmallow Weave Chocolate Chip: classic Vanilla Bean with bittersweet Chocolate Chips Hydrox Cookie : the original Cookies-and-Cream, invented before the OREO {with gluten} Peanut Butter: creamy Vanilla with salty and sweet Peanut Butter swirls Mint Chocolate Chip: white Peppermint, bittersweet Chocolate, fresh Mint Syrup Coconut: made with real Fruit Shavings Caramelized Banana: made in honor of Pope Francis’ visit to Philadelphia in 2015 Peach: local Peaches and Cream Strawberry: mashed and pureed real Fruits Black Raspberry: sweet, dark, and velvety Te a b e rry G u m : minty pink Wintergreen; a central Pennsylvania folk favorite Green Tea: light and savory, Chinese Matcha Ginger: whole Roots cooked with Brown Sugar, candied Ginger Bits Rum Raisin: Jamaican Rum, organic Jumbo Raisins 6 *Some flavors use extracts, which contain trace amounts of alcohol Ask a Soda Jerk about our Seasonal Flavors. Coffee: locally roasted Coffee; designed by black coffee drinkers Cherry Butter Almond: Philly-roasted and salted Almonds, organic Bordeaux Cherries Butter Pecan: butterscotched memories of the sweet South, Jumbo Pecans Pistachio: Philly-roasted and salted California Pistachios, no color added Map le Waln u t : English Walnuts in Pennsylvania Maple Syrup Cotton Candy: fluffy pink and flavored with blue Marshmallow whirls Sugar-Free Vanilla Bean: real Vanilla, Cream, Milk, Splenda Sugar-Free Butter Pecan: butterscotchey Jumbo Pecans, Splenda VEGAN FLAVORS Dairy-Free Vanilla: Coconut Cream, Tapioca Syrup, Organic Cane Sugar, real Vanilla Dairy-Free Chocolate: Coconut Cream, Tapioca Syrup, Organic Cane Sugar, house-made Chocolate Sauce Mango Ice: smooth and sweet Indian Mangos {dairy-free} ICE CREAM to take home Pints . $9 Quarts . $15 Franklin Ice Cream is hand-made on site with the purest, premium ingredients and packed in the Original Ice Cream Carton patented in the early 1900s. Please order ahead for more than four quarts. Call (215) 627-1899 or email us at [email protected] 7 TOPPINGS Add a topping à la carte or build your own custom Sundae. House-Made Hot Fudge . $2 Hot Caramel . $2 Peanut Butter Sauce {dairy-free} . $2 Fresh Whipped Cream . $2 Whipped Coconut Cream {vegan} . $2 Chocolate Syrup, cold {vegan} . $2 Fresh Mint Syrup {vegan} . $2 Marshmallow Sauce {dairy-free} . $2 Chocolate Brownie Pieces {with gluten} . $3 Walnuts in Maple Syrup . $250 Spicy Candied Pecans . $3 Raspberry Compote . $2 Crushed Strawberries . $2 Three-Berry Compote {Raspberries, Blueberries, Strawberries} . $2 Fresh Crushed Pineapple . $250 Jimmies, Chocolate or Multicolor {with soy} . $1 Malted Milk Powder {with gluten} . $1 Salted Pretzel Pieces {with gluten} . $2 Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans {with soy}. $250 Wilbur Bittersweet Chocolate Chunks {with soy} . $2 White Chocolate Shavings {with soy}. $2 Hydrox Cookie Pieces {with gluten, soy} . $2 Salted Pistachios . $2 Chopped Salted Almonds . $2 Salted Pecans . $2 Spanish Peanuts . $2 Sliced Bananas . $2 Make a Franklin Fountain Sundae at home with jarred Hot Fudge, Hot Caramel, or Peanut Butter Sauce to go. $9 ea or 3 for $25 8 COLLEGE ICES Once upon a simpler time, young fraternity gents asked pretty college girls out for a row or a round on his Velocipede, later accompanied by some ice cream refreshment. Ladies were known to prefer a small amount of sorbet or ice cream accompanied by a fruit or nut dressing. Choose one Scoop of Ice Cream and one Topping. $750 What’s a good combination? Ask a Soda Jerk. 9 BANANA SPLITS Dr Dovey’s Classic 1904 Banana Split . $15 In a proper banana boat is placed a BANANA, split lengthwise with one scoop each of VANILLA, STRAWBERRY, and CHOCOLATE ice creams covered in crushed PINEAPPLES and STRAWBERRies, topped with CHOCOLATE syrup, and garnished with WHIPPED CREAM, chopped ALMONDS, and three Bordeaux CHERRIES. Originated in 1904 by pharmacist David Strickler in Latrobe, PA. An apprentice, Howard Dovey, brought the Banana Split to Philadelphia where he attended medical school. Dr. Dovey is credited with popularizing the famous dessert by instructing Philadelphia soda dispensers on how to make a split properly. Banana Split for My Baby . $13 A smaller variation of the American Classic, inspired by Louis Prima’s 1949 tune for that waist-conscious lady or man. A BANANA sliced into coins laden with CHOCOLATE and PEANUT BUTTER ice creams coated with HOT FUDGE, PEANUT BUTTER SAUCE, and Spanish PEANUTS, and finished with WHIPPED CREAM and two CHERRIES. Served with a glass of plain water for him. Tarzan of the Apes . $11 The swinging swashbuckler was born in 1912 by a middle-aged pencil sharpener salesman named Edgar Rice Burroughs.