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funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoand soft serve ice cream was partly invented by Maggie Thatcher, much-maligned ice queen of Britiain
zarp86@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
This sounded so wild I looked it up.
Unfortunately, “most sources agree that the soft-serve industry arose in the United States, not Britain, and that it preceded Thatcher’s arrival at J. Lyons by about a decade. In 2008, Marian Burros offered a version of the conventional narrative in the Times.”
newyorker.com/…/the-margaret-thatcher-soft-serve-…