Traditional New Orleans Foods: Snowballs - New Orleans & Company (2024)

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What is a snowball in New Orleans? ›

What is a New Orleans Sno-Ball (Snowball)? A sno-ball (or snowball) is a customizable sweet made with a mound of fluffy shaved ice, flavored with sweet syrups, and topped or stuffed with a number of mix-ins and add-ons. These chilly treats come in small, medium, and large and range in price from $2-$6.

Snowball flavors have advanced dramatically from the original basics of strawberry, pineapple, and spearmint. The first new flavors were still basic fruit flavors like cherry, grape, orange, lemon, lime, coconut, banana, raspberry, blueberry, blackberry, black cherry, peach, mango, and watermelon.

Commonly confused with the snow cone, the ice of a sno-ball is fine and fluffy; while a snow cone's ice is coarse, crunchy, and granular. Moreover, whereas in a snow cone the flavored syrup sinks to the bottom of the cup, in a sno-ball the ice absorbs the syrup.

Snowballs (also spelled snoballs or sno-balls) originated in New Orleans in the 1930s, when locals George Ortolano and Ernest Hansen both separately invented electric ice-shaving machines.

It gets its name from the dome of white foam at the top of the drink that's created when you combine the Advocaat with lemonade. If you're a fan of creamy co*cktails, such as eggnog, and sweet yet tangy tastes, you'll love a snowball.

A snowball is a spherical object made from snow, usually created by scooping snow with the hands and pressing the snow together to compact it into a ball.

Pretty in pink (coconut).

Waiting for it to bake and cool is the hardest part! Make it for the Hostess Snowball fan in your life (or for the coconut enthusiast!).

Behavior. Snowballing (sexual practice), the act of spitting sem*n into a partner's mouth after oral sex.

New Orleans Style Shaved Ice (Snoball)

A Snoball is a New Orleans confection made with finely shaved ice and flavored cane sugar syrup. Here at Zydeco Ice, we only use flavors developed by SnoWizard, a company based out of New Orleans.

How many calories are in a New Orleans snowball? ›

Sno-balls to go by New Orleans Famous Sno Balls To Go contains 171 calories per 255 g serving.

Snoballs have been a part of Louisiana's food history for nearly 100 years. Once local to the Big Easy, the treat can now be found throughout Southeast Louisiana. The official Explore Louisiana blogging team. Since 1934, Hansen's Sno-Bliz has offered sweet and tasty treats in New Orleans.

Some businesses caught on, too, and snowballs were sold as intermission treats at theatres in the summertime as the perfect way to cool down in hot venues that didn't have air conditioning. During and after the Great Depression, the easy and cheap treat became known as the hard times sundae or the penny sundae.

However, egg custard does not taste like egg. It is a custard flavor, like a sweet creamy vanilla. Hawaiian Shaved Ice offers egg custard shaved ice and snow cone syrup to make it easy to enjoy an egg custard flavored treat.

A slang usage of the term snowball is to pass sem*n/ejacul*te from mouth to mouth.

In that figure, when first couple splits up, they act as matchmakers, the gentleman choosing two gentlemen and the lady choosing two ladies, to form two new couples who proceed to dance.

Generally speaking, people who live or were born in New Orleans and vicinity are called New Orleanians.