Margaret Thatcher helped invent soft-serve ice cream

soft serve ice cream

Margaret Thatcher helped invent soft-serve ice cream. “As a chemist for food manufacturer J. Lyons and Co. in the 1940s… Thatcher, and colleagues, invented a way to add more air into the ice cream so that it was less dense and used less ingredients, which also made it more cost-effective.” Big deal, it’s not like she was a community organizer or something. Yep, the woman was pure evil.

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