Posted on 04/08/2013 11:28:51 AM PDT by Loyalist
This morning, Margaret Thatcher died at age 87 owing to complications from a stroke. One of the lesser-known accomplishments of Britain's first female prime minister is her role in the creation of soft-serve.
Thatcher, an Oxford chemistry grad, supported herself financially in the fifties by working at food manufacturer J. Lyons and Co. There, she became part of a team of chemists that developed key emulsifiers for ice cream.
By increasing the amount of air and making it possible to churn soft-serve out of a machine, Thatcher paved the way for Britain's Mr. Whippy trucks. Her work also had financial benefits: Soft-serve allowed manufacturers to cut costs by using a smaller amount of ingredients.
Though Thatcher later faced scrutiny for eliminating free school milk, earning the nickname "Milk Snatcher," she did an invaluable service to dairy. Eat a smooth, creamy (yet still airy-light!) soft-serve cone today in remembrance of the Iron Lady.
I’m going to do so as a tribute. What a great woman.
So what did 0bama invent? Or Clinton? Or Teddy? Or Barney? Or Dodd? Or ....
Amazing how all the libs only created more government. That is easy to do.
Every time I think about the moron we have in the WH it makes me sick. Baroness Thatcher a chemist and PM. Obama...community organizer. I want to throw up!
Who knew? She had a REAL job before becoming a politician.
Obama literally never had a productive job his entire life.
Sounds horible, glad it was kept confined to England!
At the time I always heard it as “Thatcher the Snatcher” and never as “Milk Snatcher” as all the obits are quoting.
Are you being funny?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream
One important development in the 20th century was the introduction of soft ice cream. A chemical research team in Britain (of which a young Margaret Thatcher was a member)[21][22] discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cream, which allowed manufacturers to use less ingredients, thereby reducing costs. It made possible the soft ice cream machine in which a cone is filled beneath a spigot on order. In the United States, Dairy Queen, Carvel, and Tastee-Freez pioneered in establishing chains of soft-serve ice cream outlets.
“Are you being funny?”
Absolutely not!!!
The crap you described is putred ice milk!
You make me smile when I read your posts.
Well, how about that? I think I will hit a Dairy Queen and get a cone in her memory.
So the Iron Lady was Mister Softee
Thanx for sharing this...I had no idea!
I swear I learn something new at FR everyday....and I adore soft serve so thank you Baroness-(the real Dairy “Queen”) for all you did for the world and as someone else said, I get sick thinking about the worthless money-suckers we have been saddled with in DC, most who have never done an honest days work in their life.
Please Dear Lord-send us more people like Margaret-we desperately need them!
Cute. :)
Though Thatcher later faced scrutiny for eliminating free school milk...
Because parents can never take care of their own kids, right, Leftists? This is why I hat the Left: they really treat people as stupid cattle.
Hell even the Queen of England had a job before she was Queen (Worked in the Motor pool in the armed forces.) Obama has never worked ever in his life.
So you’re saying I have the Baroness to thank for my old high school job at the local Tastee-Freez back in the early 70s? Another trivia tidbit to take up brain cells...
She was the UK Dairy Queen.
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