Soda drinks - what's in a Black Cow?
Larry W. Virden
without a true soda fountain - at least, none that I knew of. So I don't
know what goes into a soft drink called a 'Black Cow'. Who would like
to provide me with the ingredients for this and other similar drinks?
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BOB AT COMB
>Oh great and knowlegable ones. I grew up in a deprived area of the country
>without a true soda fountain - at least, none that I knew of. So I don't
>know what goes into a soft drink called a 'Black Cow'. Who would like
>to provide me with the ingredients for this and other similar drinks?
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My Dad used to make "Black Cows" for my brother and me. I don't
know if this recipe is authentic but his BC was essentially a Coke Float,
i.e., vanilla ice cream in a tall soda glass filled with Coca Cola.
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of ice cream (usually vanilla, but you could make it as weird a flavor as
you like) in a tall glass, and then fill the glass with Root Beer. The root
beer foams up rather oddly with the ice cream in there... There was another
name (brown cow, maybe?) for ice cream with Coca Cola, and one of my personal
favorites was what I personally referred to as a Purple Cow -- Strawberry
ice cream topped off by Black Cherry soda -- yum!
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Jan A. Schwarz
When I was growing up a black cow was Root Beer and ice cream.
Katie Fritz
>In article <1992May7.1...@cas.org>, lvi...@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes...
>>Oh great and knowlegable ones. I grew up in a deprived area of the country
>>without a true soda fountain - at least, none that I knew of. So I don't
>>know what goes into a soft drink called a 'Black Cow'. Who would like
>>to provide me with the ingredients for this and other similar drinks?
> My Dad used to make "Black Cows" for my brother and me. I don't
>know if this recipe is authentic but his BC was essentially a Coke Float,
>i.e., vanilla ice cream in a tall soda glass filled with Coca Cola.
No, no! A Black Cow uses ROOT BEER, not Coca-Cola!
Eddie Van Huffel
> In article <1992May7.1...@cas.org>, lvi...@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
I believe that the term varies from local to locality. Our term, when I was
a boy, and NOT from Cleveland, was a Boston Cooler used Coca Cola, and a
Black Cow was Root Beer. However, As I have traveled around, I have heard
the same names sometimes intermixed, or used for other floats. I am
curious, and should see this finally, and officially defined. What is a
Boston Cooler, and what is a Black Cow?????
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Claudia Kale
And where I come from, a black cow is the famous-brand-name-cola-
of-your-choice and vanilla ice cream; a brown cow is root beer
and vanilla ice cream. These two fountain treats were also known
(respectively) as coke floats and root beer floats.
Gale Langseth
> From: fr...@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Katie Fritz)
> Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
> Organization: University of Pennsylvania
>
> In article <7MAY1992...@comb1.comb.umd.edu> be...@comb1.comb.umd.e > (Larry W. Virden) writes...
> >>Oh great and knowlegable ones. I grew up in a deprived
> area of the country
> >>without a true soda fountain - at least, none that I
> knew of. So I don't
> >>know what goes into a soft drink called a 'Black Cow'.
> Who would like
> >>to provide me with the ingredients for this and other
> similar drinks?
>
> I don't
> >know if this recipe is authentic but his BC was essentially
> a Coke Float,
> >i.e., vanilla ice cream in a tall soda glass filled with
> Coca Cola.
>
>
>
If, as you say, a Black Cow uses root beer to mix with vanilla ice cream, then
why is that same concoction called a Root Beer Float?
I grew up *long after* the age of soda fountains, so I have no direct experience
with Black Cows or any other exotic ice cream concoctions, but I did see Jeff
Smith's idiotic show on soda fountains. I vaguely recall the Black Cow
containing something chocolate (perhaps chocolate ice cream, perhaps chocolate
sauce) and malt powder on top. Like I said, it is a vague recollection. But
one thing I'm pretty sure of is that a root beer float and a Black Cow are not
one and the same.
gale
Roger White
Well, another 2 cents worth (2 cents plain?). In southern NY (Yonkers) in the
late 40's and early 50's. Never heard of a Black Cow and a Brown Cow was just
milk and Coke and not bought in a fountain. We had cherry Cokes and lemon
Cokes and plain old Cokes but I don't recall any with ice cream. A "Black and
White" was vanilla ice cream in chocolate soda and I have a vague recollection
of van. ice cream and root beer but no name comes to mind.
Ah, the good old days. No soda fountains around any more. ;-(
Take care,
Rog
BTW: anyone see the Frugal Gourmet show about soda fountains? I disagreed
with a lot of his names and techniques and some of the stuff I never heard of.
Anne P. Mitchell
*
*Well, another 2 cents worth (2 cents plain?). In southern NY (Yonkers) in the
*late 40's and early 50's. Never heard of a Black Cow and a Brown Cow was just
*milk and Coke and not bought in a fountain. We had cherry Cokes and lemon
*Cokes and plain old Cokes but I don't recall any with ice cream. A "Black and
*White" was vanilla ice cream in chocolate soda and I have a vague recollection
*of van. ice cream and root beer but no name comes to mind.
Aaaah...and how about those egg creams??
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> In article <NDcgkB...@railnet.nshore.ORG> ed...@railnet.nshore.ORG (Eddie Van Huffel) writes:
>>be...@comb1.comb.umd.edu (BOB AT COMB) writes:
>>
>>I believe that the term varies from local to locality. Our term, when I was
>>a boy, and NOT from Cleveland, was a Boston Cooler used Coca Cola, and a
>>Black Cow was Root Beer. However, As I have traveled around, I have heard
>>
>>
> late 40's and early 50's. Never heard of a Black Cow and a Brown Cow was just
> milk and Coke and not bought in a fountain. We had cherry Cokes and lemon
> Cokes and plain old Cokes but I don't recall any with ice cream. A "Black and
> White" was vanilla ice cream in chocolate soda and I have a vague recollection
> of van. ice cream and root beer but no name comes to mind.
As you can guess the training of a soda jerk was very regional.
I also agree that the show Jeff Smith did did not use the proper
names that I remembered but why is a Coke called tonic in Boston
and pop in the south and a Coke in the midwest.
As long as you know what is in it you can always enjoy it.
Now for the Kendallville, Indiana Black Cow,
2 Scoops of Choc. Ice Cream
in a tall Glass and then pour in the Root Beer Syrup
(just a squirt) fill with soda water and Spritz at when nearly
full to get the GREAT foam on top.
Top it off with a wedge of a thin sugar waffer crecker
Best enjoyed with two straws.
Now how meny versions of the Banana Split can we con up with?
Any takers?
Pat.Ch...@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
cream a *spider*. No black cow drink here, but a brown cow is a
Kahlua and milk. Not for kids :-)
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were different from all other A&W's I ever went to. They used HARD ice cream
for their root beer floats for one thing, and the rootbeer had about double
the syrup content of any other A&W I ever visited.
There a black cow was a Rootbeer float, but the twist was that you ran it
through the buzzmaster (Whatever you call that thing that they use to blend
the milkshakes).
I always prefered the regular rootbeer float...
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A Black Cow (from the way my family, friend and I make it) contains
somekind of root beer with scoops of cholocate ice cream. A Root
Beer Float and a Black Cow differs only by the flavor of ice cream.
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Nancy Leinonen
a Boston Cooler was always Vernors and vanilla ice cream.
Now that I live in Boston, I find this highly distressing. Why?
Becau Vernors(bottled in Detroit) is not sold (to the best
of my knowledge) in the Boston area (except for a
Bar-B-Que pit by name of Jimy Mac's, which just happens, luckily,
to be down the street from me).
Lady Dragon
> If, as you say, a Black Cow uses root beer to mix with vanilla ice cream, the
>
> I grew up *long after* the age of soda fountains, so I have no direct experie
> Smith's idiotic show on soda fountains. I vaguely recall the Black Cow
> containing something chocolate (perhaps chocolate ice cream, perhaps chocolat
> one thing I'm pretty sure of is that a root beer float and a Black Cow are no
> gale
>
They are supposed to be remember fondly by people who drank them way back
when :).
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Kim Sebert
>>
> Onto the next soda question: what's an Egg Cream and how do you make that?
> They are supposed to be remember fondly by people who drank them way back
> when :).
Egg Creams are not from the mid west. I never heard of them until
I was in Boston about 12 years ago. I know there is no egg and no
cream in them. I think the Frug covered it in the soda fountain
pledge special if you want I'll dig it out and take a look.
I had a lot of fun working in a soda fountian in High School
and I realy enjoyed that special.
And to keep this thread going.... what is a frape'.
go...@bbs.mdcbbs.com
Back when I was a kid growing up in Detroit my dad used to take me to
a little shop accross the street from the old Vernor's Plant. There we
would get what he claimed to be the 'only real Boston Cooler in the
world'. It was simply ˙ūa float in a tall glass made with vanilla ice
cream and Vernor's Ginger Ale. I don't know about the rest of the world,
but people here in Detroit sure believed it.
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>Boston cooler...Vernor's and vanilla ice cream
That's what I thought, too--thanks for verifying.
Dave Ratcliffe
> Oh great and knowlegable ones. I grew up in a deprived area of the country
> without a true soda fountain - at least, none that I knew of. So I don't
> know what goes into a soft drink called a 'Black Cow'. Who would like
> to provide me with the ingredients for this and other similar drinks?
I have a feeling there will be multiple ingredient posting for this, all
just a little bit different. When I was growing up a Black Cow was root
beer and milk. I grew up with Hires root beer and learned that the way
my folks made it didn't suit my tastes. I generally poured a half glass
of milk and filled the rest with root beer gradually, tasting
periodically to make sure it was the way I like it.
I have heard of others who used milk, root beer and ICE CREAM but this
always sounded more like an ice cream soda than a black cow.
Pardon me now. Think I'll go make a black cow. Haven't had one in a
kazillion years and this is making me thirsty :)
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Anne P. Mitchell
An egg cream is made by putting a small amount of flavouring syrup
(i.e. chocolate) and a small amount of milk in the the bottom of a
tall glass. Then you fill the glass with seltzer water.
A frappe is a milkshake.
Bruce Smith
>A frappe is a milkshake.
In the Boston, MA area, if you order a milkshake you get just that -- milk and
flavored syrup, but no ice cream. A frappe contains ice cream. If you head a
bit farther south, to Rhode Island, the terminology becomes even more obtuse.
There, they have soda fountain drinks called "cabinets" and "awful-awfuls."
Now, would someone from the Washington, DC area please tell me what a "half-
smoke" is?
Bruce Smith
Sharen A. Rund
>In article <NDcgkB...@railnet.nshore.ORG> ed...@railnet.nshore.ORG (Eddie Van Huffel) writes:
>>be...@comb1.comb.umd.edu (BOB AT COMB) writes:
>>
>>> In article <1992May7.1...@cas.org>, lvi...@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
>>> >Oh great and knowlegable ones. I grew up in a deprived area of the country
>>> >without a true soda fountain - at least, none that I knew of. So I don't
>>> >know what goes into a soft drink called a 'Black Cow'. Who would like
>>> >to provide me with the ingredients for this and other similar drinks?
>>> >--
>>> know if this recipe is authentic but his BC was essentially a Coke Float,
>>> i.e., vanilla ice cream in a tall soda glass filled with Coca Cola.
>>
>>a boy, and NOT from Cleveland, was a Boston Cooler used Coca Cola, and a
>>Black Cow was Root Beer. However, As I have traveled around, I have heard
>>the same names sometimes intermixed, or used for other floats. I am
>>curious, and should see this finally, and officially defined. What is a
>>Boston Cooler, and what is a Black Cow?????
>>
>
>late 40's and early 50's. Never heard of a Black Cow and a Brown Cow was just
>milk and Coke and not bought in a fountain. We had cherry Cokes and lemon
>Cokes and plain old Cokes but I don't recall any with ice cream. A "Black and
>White" was vanilla ice cream in chocolate soda and I have a vague recollection
>of van. ice cream and root beer but no name comes to mind.
>
my grandpa used to make black cows/root beer floats (he'd always make
them before grandma was ready to serve dinner and make a big mess all over
her counters with the foam spill overs and ice cream droppings...
>Ah, the good old days. No soda fountains around any more. ;-(
>
how true, how true
>BTW: anyone see the Frugal Gourmet show about soda fountains? I disagreed
>with a lot of his names and techniques and some of the stuff I never heard of.
>
we had a couple of soda fountains, each were in a drug store - I used to
love the phosphates they served (basically, flavored syrup and soda water)
and the ice cream cones with rolled sugar cones
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>An egg cream is made by putting a small amount of flavouring syrup
>(i.e. chocolate) and a small amount of milk in the the bottom of a
>tall glass. Then you fill the glass with seltzer water.
Traditionally, the chocolate syrup is supposed to be 'U-Bet' brand
chocolate syrup. I've found that this, contrary to my expectations,
was actually a pretty good tasting brand of chocolate syrup, better
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>Onto the next soda question: what's an Egg Cream and how do you make that?
>They are supposed to be remember fondly by people who drank them way back
>when :).
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>
is also a variation called a cherry egg cream where you stick some cherry syrup
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Gale Langseth
> and "awful-awfuls."
>
> Now, would someone from the Washington, DC area please
> tell me what a "half-
> smoke" is?
>
>
the Washington, D.C. area, and the only half-smoke I know of is a plumper,
spicier version of the hot dog. They are especially good with mustard and
sauerkraut. The best thing about them, however, is that they fill up the entire
bun; with plain old hot dogs, too often, there is that extra bite of bun once
the dog is gone.
gale
Ted Taylor
ga> Back when I was a kid growing up in Detroit my dad used to take me to
ga> a little shop accross the street from the old Vernor's Plant. There we
ga> would get what he claimed to be the 'only real Boston Cooler in the
ga> world'. It was simply ˙ūa float in a tall glass made with vanilla ice
ga> cream and Vernor's Ginger Ale. I don't know about the rest of the
ga> world, but people here in Detroit sure believed it.
Vernor's was once a real ginger ale? That's interesting. I tried some when I
was in the Motor City last year on business, and found it interesting that I
couldn't detect much ginger flavoring, and that they're not legally allowed
to call it "ginger ale" because it doesn't meet the specs. It was preferable
to water, but not really very different. (Try some so-called ginger /beer/
some time, if you like ginger sodas.)
How the mighty have fallen!
Shari Deiana
I used to work in one of those pharmacy soda fountains, one of the last few.
Yes, I was a soda jerk. sheesh. :-)
Teresa Kellner / MIS Engineer
>
>my grandpa used to make black cows/root beer floats (...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is what my mother used to call a brown cow.
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BS> milk and flavored syrup, but no ice cream. A frappe contains ice
BS> cream. If you head a bit farther south, to Rhode Island, the
BS> terminology becomes even more obtuse. There, they have soda fountain
BS> drinks called "cabinets" and "awful-awfuls."
Excuse, please -- the "Awful Awful" was invented by what was then a very small,
New England-based, chain of stores called "Friendly's." An Awful Awful was a
one quart milkshake, and although it tasted Awful good, if you ate the whole
thing you'd feel Awful.
Friendly's stopped selling Awful Awfuls about 1970 or 1972.
Anybody who claims to be producing Awful Awfuls is just pretending to, and may
be sued by the Friendly's chain at any moment. So if the milkshakes are any
good, drink 'em all up quickly.
Kim Sebert
>
> I used to work in one of those pharmacy soda fountains, one of the last few.
> Yes, I was a soda jerk. sheesh. :-
ME TOO. And I loved it. That was were all the girls stoped by after shoping.
Kim
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Eddie Van Huffel
>
> I used to work in one of those pharmacy soda fountains, one of the last few.
> Yes, I was a soda jerk. sheesh. :-)
>
>
Your comment brings back memories, when I worked at a soda fountain in
College. We had a concoction which the dean described as a Garbage Scow on
its way out to sea. It started out with lots of ice cream, and everytthing
we could find to go with it. It put the traditional banana split to shame.
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Susan Collicott
Regarding 'frappe' - this is a french word, for a frozen blended dessert.
I dunno what an american frappe is like, but the french frappe's I've had
are generally thick blends, and served in a dessert dish. Much too thick
to drink.
Vernor's: Ah, I remember Vernor's Ice Cream!! Put a couple of scoops of
that stuff, some chocolate sauce, and some pretzel sticks, and you have my
special dessert. Alas, no more verner's ice cream, so I have to make do
with french vanilla.
Yummm....I think I'll indulge tonight. ;)
mary.k....@gmail.com
Bruce
wrote:
>Someone must have passed off a Canada Dry Ginger Ale on you when they didn't actually serve Vernors. A Vernors lover can tell the difference. I've had waitresses try this on me. Vernors is still very gingery in taste and color.
Vernors Soda, The Original Ginger:
"Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Natural and Artificial
Flavors, Caramel Color, Citric Acid, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative)"
Ed Pawlowski
> Someone must have passed off a Canada Dry Ginger Ale on you when they didn't actually serve Vernors. A Vernors lover can tell the difference. I've had waitresses try this on me. Vernors is still very gingery in taste and color.
>
sweet for me. I'll stick with Canada Dry.
Had a Cheerwine last week. It was a fountain drink at a sandwich shop I
stopped at. For those that may have never heard of it, similar to Mr.
Pibb.
Jeßus
itsjoan...@webtv.net
>
> Someone must have passed off a Canada Dry Ginger Ale on you when they didn't actually serve Vernors. A Vernors lover can tell the difference. I've had waitresses try this on me. Vernors is still very gingery in taste and color.
>
Bruce
itsjoan...@webtv.net
so many years ago are also dead.
Bruce
>On Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 5:40:18 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 15:32:47 -0700 (PDT), "itsjoan...@webtv.net"
>> <itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:
>>
>> >On Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 4:03:44 PM UTC-5, mary.k...@gmail.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Someone must have passed off a Canada Dry Ginger Ale on you when they didn't actually serve Vernors. A Vernors lover can tell the difference. I've had waitresses try this on me. Vernors is still very gingery in taste and color.
>> >>
>> >Twenty-seven (27) year old thread. 5/18/1992.
>>
>> But a very recent reply.
>>
>To a dead subject and most likely many of the original posters to this thread
>so many years ago are also dead.
the Canada Dry vs. Vernors dichotomy?
Jeßus
Dave Smith
> On 8/18/2019 5:03 PM, mary.k....@gmail.com wrote:
>> Someone must have passed off a Canada Dry Ginger Ale on you when they
>> didn't actually serve Vernors. A Vernors lover can tell the
>> difference. I've had waitresses try this on me. Vernors is still very
>> gingery in taste and color.
>>
>
> Only had Vernors once about a month ago. Good ginger taste but too
> sweet for me. I'll stick with Canada Dry.
>
Leonard Blaisdell
> And now all these new people can add their 0.02. What is your view on
> the Canada Dry vs. Vernors dichotomy?
Leo's ginger ale, and everybody else's
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 oh, say 4 inch ginger knob peeled and coined
8 oz. carbonated water
boil up first three ingredients until reduced by half, put liquid in a
cup and refrigerate.
Serve 2 tablespoons ginger concentrate in carbonated water. If too
sweet, dial back. If not too sweet, add more.
Ingredient list just for you:
sugar, water, carbon dioxide, ginger, sugar contaminants, water
contaminants, ginger contaminants
leo
Bruce
<leobla...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>In article <asljlelthmadq1a7v...@4ax.com>, Bruce
><br...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> And now all these new people can add their 0.02. What is your view on
>> the Canada Dry vs. Vernors dichotomy?
>
>No idea.
>
>Leo's ginger ale, and everybody else's
>
>1 cup sugar
>1 cup water
>1 oh, say 4 inch ginger knob peeled and coined
>8 oz. carbonated water
>
>boil up first three ingredients until reduced by half, put liquid in a
>cup and refrigerate.
>
>Serve 2 tablespoons ginger concentrate in carbonated water. If too
>sweet, dial back. If not too sweet, add more.
>
>Ingredient list just for you:
>
Pure art in its simplicity.
Julie Bove
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Julie Bove
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Cindy Hamilton
be back. They so rarely are.
Cindy Hamilton
Bruce
Canada Dry vs. Vernors vs. Don Leo.
Cindy Hamilton
not unknown) for someone who grew up very far from Detroit (say, more than
300 miles) to like it.
Cindy Hamilton
Bruce
Ophelia
news:92699c44-6a52-413e...@googlegroups.com...
> On Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 4:03:44 PM UTC-5, mary.k...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > Someone must have passed off a Canada Dry Ginger Ale on you when they
> > didn't actually serve Vernors. A Vernors lover can tell the difference.
> > I've had waitresses try this on me. Vernors is still very gingery in
> > taste and color.
> >
> Twenty-seven (27) year old thread. 5/18/1992.
Clueless Google groups user. It happens all the time, and I doubt Mary will
be back. They so rarely are.
Cindy Hamilton
I am not sure why it bothers some people so much. It doesn't bother me,
so long as it is interesting. Depending on the post it could start a
discussion. If not, it's easy enough to ignore.
Gary
>
> I am not sure why it bothers some people so much. It doesn't bother me,
> so long as it is interesting. Depending on the post it could start a
> discussion. If not, it's easy enough to ignore.
like that. Most people were not there and the ones that were have
forgotten any details. Old posts can be good for a "new" subject
now.
Heck, we current ones rehash a subject every year or two. Nothing
wrong with someone bringing one up after 10-20 years. It's new
again.
"Make subject new again"
Seems like only (a few of) the very long-time members here
complain.
Bruce
Ophelia
Aye.
itsjoan...@webtv.net
many replies. Fair enough??
Bruce
Ophelia
Awwww is the dunce mentioning me again? I am beginning to think she has
a crush on me <g>
Bruce
dunce noun
\ 'd?n(t)s
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Definition of dunce
: a slow-witted or stupid person"
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I like this bit, it's very inspirational:
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"Synonyms
airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, bubblehead, chowderhead,
chucklehead, clodpoll (or clodpole), clot [British], cluck, clunk,
cretin, cuddy (or cuddie) [British dialect], deadhead, dim bulb
[slang], dimwit, dip, dodo, dolt, donkey, doofus [slang], dope, dork
[slang], dullard, dum-dum, dumbbell, dumbhead, dummkopf, dummy,
dunderhead, fathead, gander, golem, goof, goon, half-wit, hammerhead,
hardhead, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, know-nothing,
knucklehead, lamebrain, loggerhead [chiefly dialect], loon, lump,
lunkhead, meathead, mome [archaic], moron, mug [chiefly British],
mutt, natural, nimrod [slang], nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit
[chiefly British], nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull (or numbskull),
oaf, pinhead, prat [British], ratbag [chiefly Australian], saphead,
schlub (also shlub) [slang], schnook [slang], simpleton, stock, stupe,
stupid, thickhead, turkey, woodenhead, yahoo, yo-yo
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dunce
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Ophelia
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