Client Profile: A modern, low-sugar soda company focusing on natural flavors and under 5 grams of sugar per serving with no artificial flavors. This is a promotional blog post to publicize a purchasing opportunity, National Ice Cream Soda Day.

Main Storytelling Strategy: Suggest the story that if the reader chooses Zizzie, they will not experience an energy crash often associated with sweet treats. Use snippets of language like “being able to keep going” or “won’t hold you back” to suggest this story.

This National Ice Cream Soda Day, Choose Zizzie – Your Body will Thank You 

June 20th

3 minute read

Join us in celebrating today, National Ice Cream Soda Day, without sugary sluggishness – pair Zizzie with your favorite ice cream for a retro treat that won’t hold you back. 

Bonus points if you pair with a health-conscious cream, like Halo Top, to still feel your absolute best after. That said, treating yourself to a combo like Tillamook’s vanilla bean with our strawberry peach soda is also totally ok. Do what feels right! A treat is a treat!

Most likely created in 1874 by Robert Green, he substituted the usual ice served in soda at the time with ice cream when he ran out of ice shavings. Some sources say that this was an accident driven by necessity, although a personal account published by Green in 1910 clarifies that he deliberately experimented to make a new drink that would draw customers away from rival soda vendors. Anyway, it was an instant hit and it remains popular to this day.

Along with the classic treat, however, typically comes a lot of unwanted sugar. Pairing a standard coke or pepsi with ¼ cup of ice cream could total more than 40 grams of sugar. In our opinion, that is too high a risk of a sugar crash for a Thursday. We’ve still got stuff to do!

Here are some awesome pairings we’ve tested in the Zizzie Lab. Feel free to them and make them your own with split scoops or other flavors:

  • Peach Strawberry with Cookie Dough ice cream – tastes like a peach cobbler

  • Blackberry Lime with Coconut gelato

  • Pina Colada with Oregon Strawberry ice cream

  • Strawberry Lime with Mango sherbet

  • Meyer Lemon with Blackberry Cobbler ice cream

  • Meyer Lemon with Rocky Road

Give us a shout on Instagram if you find a new flavor pairing you want us to hear about. Happy sipping!