Soft serve ice cream is an abomination surpassed only by soft serve yogurt. Ice cream should be eaten in scoops or not at all.

I find it difficult to have a passionate opinion on this subject.

well what do you know. something positive I can say about her after all.

Or not.

The soft serve formula was first developed in 1938 by John Fremont "Grandpa" McCullough, (1871‒1963), and his son Bradley.[1] They convinced friend and customer Sheb Noble to offer the product in his ice cream store in Kankakee, Illinois. On the first day of sales, Noble dished out more than 1,600 servings of the new dessert within two hours.

Unless she was in Illinois when she was 12, she didn't have scrumpdiddlysquat to do with its invention.

Cold_Sassy: Hello repeat.

See: " Iron lady rusts in peace"

That wasn't about her contribution to the field of ice cream related products, so no, it ain't a repeat.

jbc: Or not.

The soft serve formula was first developed in 1938 by John Fremont "Grandpa" McCullough, (1871‒1963), and his son Bradley.[1] They convinced friend and customer Sheb Noble to offer the product in his ice cream store in Kankakee, Illinois. On the first day of sales, Noble dished out more than 1,600 servings of the new dessert within two hours.

it is so cute that you think Wikipedia is a valid source.

I prefer traditional ice cream, but being a Southerner, I still have an appreciation for the occasional soft serve from Dairy Queen.

twentypoundsofderp: it is so cute that you think Wikipedia is a valid source.

It is so cute you think anyone values your opinion. Do you want to challenge this link, too?

Our phenomenal story began with the 10-cent sale of a then unnamed product on August 4, 1938, in Kankakee, Illinois.

FTA: To help figure out a way to whip extra air into ice cream using emulsifiers -- so that the ice cream could be manufactured with fewer ingredients, thereby reducing production costs.

Another reason to hate the f*cking b*tch.  She basically invented the precursor to Hershey's mockolate, partially hydrogenated oils, HFCS, and those farking whipped yogurts too.

jbc:
Our phenomenal story began with the 10-cent sale of a then unnamed product on August 4, 1938, in Kankakee, Illinois.

Which is interesting, since Tom Carvel started in Hartsdale, NY, 1934/36.

http://www.carvel.com/about-us/history

jbc: twentypoundsofderp: it is so cute that you think Wikipedia is a valid source.

It is so cute you think anyone values your opinion.

You valued it enough to respond.

Do you want to challenge this link, too?

Oh look, your source is a company saying that they did something.  Do you always cite company PR as truth?

BokChoy: I don't get the unbridled hatred for Thatcher. What did she do aside from telling Argentina and trade unions to politely go fark themselves?

Can a UK farker explain this for me?

Margaret Thatcher was a grocer's daughter. She was imbued with the moralism, anti-intellectualism, and anti-Statist values of the petite bourgeoisie. She was, in short, the British equivalent of Pierre Poujad, the French populist, and Joe McCarthy, the American populist.

She brought to Great Britain the values and aims of the neo-con movement in the US and of the clap-trap crankery of Reaganism and Reaganomics.

Union-bashing in a country which was even more unionized than the USA, and where the unions were far more powerful, would have made her many enemies among the working classes and their political leaders and allies all by itself, but she dismantled the social welfare state in ways that were sadly reminiscent of the social, political and economic evils of the XIXth century, particularly those aspects of XIXth century society which Charles Dickens, who deplored them, exposed them, and satirized them, regarded as most in need of reform.

She was largely successful in laying the groundwork for Public Private Partnerships (PPP), which as readers of the satiric Private Eye and the less timid elements of the British Press know, often meant sweetheart deals for privateers at the public's very great expense. She privatized (and the oligarchic elites plundered) many of the institutions of the British public sector.

One of the few things she got right was recognizing climate change, but she is said to have regarded it as another hammer to pound the coal workers with. Lord Monckton, one of the biggest shams and eggregious perpetrators of nonsense on climate, who has criticized non-scientists who have opinions on climate and the environment despite being an arts major himself with no scientific training or authority whatsoever, was one of her minions.

But mostly she rubbed people the wrong way. She even rubbed Tories the wrong way, but very few of them dared to nay-say her, even in private, because she had the personality of a German Nanny, which is ironic seeing as she was all about abolishing the "Nanny State". She was arrogant, imperious, closed-minded, smug, self-righteous, moralizing, ruthless, jingoistic, piously uncharitable--a villain straight out of Dickens. She had enough moraline poision in her for any three Pharisees and three Sadducees combined.

She was able to get away with running a damn fool Reagomics-plus program largely because the massive wealth of the North Sea (much of which was Scottish North Sea) poured into the Government coffers while she was applying voodoo economics and a graceless and ruthless return to the values and methods of the Elizabethan Poor Laws.

She caused untold suffering for millions (even if you don't count the Falklands War) and paved the way in Great Britain for the same hollowing out of the middle classes, the same return to the stark disparities of the Robber Baron period, and the same concentration of ABSOLUTELY ALL the increases in wealth and productivity over the last forty years in the hands of something less than 1% of the population in the form of economic rents, which is to say, other people's rightful reward for their labour.

In short, she was one of those delightful Englishwomen who make you appreciate being torn to pieces by a tiger. The last British leader who was as vicious as she was was probably not Queen Mary (although she was bad enough to lend her name to the Bloody Mary) but Queen Boadicia, who, having put the Romans to temporary flight, fell upon the citizens of London and slaughtered them as if they were Romans themselves.

She not only unleashed John Major (the only man to ever run away from the Circus to join the middle classes) and Boris Johnson on Britain, she is responsible for inspiring the caitiff crew of American Conservatives to even greater flights of felony and malignancy.

Today she stands at the Gates of Satan's Capital City, Pandemonium.

God help Pandemonium. God help Satan.

cirby: hillary:
there's this thing called movies. and books -- non-fiction histories and biographies and stuff. then there are history classes in public schools that can actually teach you stuff if you don't skip and stay awake. there's even this thing called Wikipedia.

Pretty much none of those things explain the overflowing hatred we've been seeing here (and in other places) for Thatcher. She's been out of office for over 20 years. Heck, read the Wiki article about Thatcher, and tell us what part of that article explains the sheer volume of bile we're seeing from some folks.

from the wiki:
increased GDP, government spending increased by half of what GDP increased
increased spending on health, employment and training, law and order and social security.
decreased spending on defense, housing, trade and transport

something about milk.
HISTORY'S GREATEST MONSTER

This is fark, what do you expect?
/We get it, she's a woman.

brantgoose: BokChoy: I don't get the unbridled hatred for Thatcher. What did she do aside from telling Argentina and trade unions to politely go fark themselves?

Can a UK farker explain this for me?

Margaret Thatcher was a grocer's daughter.

Her farther OWNED two grocery stores after working his way up from being an assistant.   That is not the same as being a "grocer's daughter".
He was an "old fashioned liberal"

She was imbued with the moralism, anti-intellectualism...

She was Oxford educated.

That was enough for me, stopped reading your drivel at that point.

/We get it, she was a woman.