We don't often think of celebrities being inventive, let alone coming up with the idea for a summertime staple like soft serve ice cream, but that's exactly what happened. Can you guess which political celebrity invented everyone's favorite hot weather treat?
Margaret Thatcher!
Before Ms. Thatcher was all that she was a graduate from Oxford with a degree in chemistry and tasked with figuring out a way to whip extra air into ice cream. Her work resulted in what we know as soft serve today. It was first served from Mr. Whippy trucks in Great Britain before it spread around the world. Since you very rarely see photos of Margaret smiling it's funny to think of her as the mastermind behind such a joyous treat!
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(Image: MargaretThatcher.org, Daily Herald)
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Very interesting -- who'd have guessed. But did she get a patent or royalties?
BTW, that first sentence needs a word or a comma or something. I've re-read it several times and I still don't quite get what you are trying to say.
... the first sentence after the jump.
@Mid-CFrank, I believe it's supposed to be something like:
Before Ms. Thatcher was "all that," she was a graduate from Oxford with a degree in chemistry and was tasked with figuring out a way to whip extra air into ice cream.
This is not true.
The earliest Dairy Queen opened in 1940 and served soft serve using a recipe developed by the original owners in the late 1930s. Margaret Thatcher didn't work for the ice cream people until the mid 1940s.
It may be that her research team developed a technique that changed (significantly?) the soft serve industry, but it's not true that she "invented" soft serve.
Uh, no. She may have worked on techniques that helped modernise or enhance the process but Carvel was doing this in 1936 and DQ in 1938, when Mrs Thatcher was 11 and 13, respectively.
This information is totally wrong!
I have watch a documentary film on this.
soft serve was invented by American not Margaret.
Margaret she was a food scientist when she was young.
and her achievement was to invented overrun ( air in the ice cream).
she was the first one to make the ice cream with overrun more than 100%.
she introduced this into the hardserve ice cream business.
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I think you guys confuse half melted ice cream (the truck broke down) with actual soft serve ice cream (pumped full of air and lower fat). No one wants to buy half melted ice cream when real stuff is available.