Mudslide Cocktail

No question about it, this drink has a good many calories, but you can save some calories by cutting down on the ice cream and replacing it with crushed ice, but it naturally won't be as creamy. This cocktail was supposedly invented in the Cayman Islands in the 1950s.

Ingredients (about 6 servings):

3 ounces vodka
3 ounces coffee flavored liqueur
3 ounces Irish cream liqueur
48 ounce carton of vanilla ice cream (or 14 to 16 ounce carton and 4 large scoops crushed ice)
4 tablespoons chocolate syrup (+ more for serving)
grated or shaved chocolate for serving
whipped cream for serving

Add everything except the grated/shaved chocolate and whipped cream to a blender. Blend until the ice cream is well mixed with the other ingredients. Pour into glasses, top each with whipped cream, drizzle some chocolate syrup over the whipped cream and then sprinkle on some grated or shaved chocolate. Another way to make this, is to use chocolate ice cream, and then skip adding the chocolate syrup to the blender, but you will still need some chocolate syrup for each serving, used as above.   

WORD HISTORY: 
Mud-This word is distantly related to "moss," a word from the Germanic roots of English. It goes back to Indo European "meu," which had the notion, "moist, damp, musty," and its extended form "meut," which added the meaning, "dirty, impure;" thus also, "decaying." This gave Old Germanic "mud(d)," meaning, "soft, moist earth," which then gave Low German "modder," meaning, "mud," which then became "mudde." This was borrowed by English circa 1400. It seems odd that no form of the word "mud" has been identified in Old English, although Old English "fenn," which became modern "fen," meant "mud," besides "wet land, marshy land," the meaning that has continued into modern times. Perhaps "fenn" overtook an unrecorded form of the word "mud," only later to have English borrow a form from its close cousin Low German? Anyway, relatives of "mud" in the other Germanic languages: German has "Moder," meaning, "wet and muddy land, moldiness," but this was taken from Low German (in about 1400?), but German also has "Modder," which means "mud," but it too was taken from the Low German form (apparently in the 1800s), as well as the adjective  "modderig," which means "muddy," and another adjective, "modrig" (long "o"), which means, "moist," but also, "to smell spoiled or decayed." Low German has "Mudd," meaning "mud." Low German does not have a standard form, as it is a collection of dialects, and thus it also has "Modder," also meaning, "mud," Dutch has "modder," meaning, "mud, sludge," Swedish has "modd," meaning, "slushy snow," West Frisian has "modder," meaning "mud," Danish "mudder," meaning, "mud."