thank you charles and otto!
only very slightly stealing this idea from my friend ryan's last post (http://robgordon5.blogspot.com) where he thanked the inventor of the avocado peeler. this is a day where i need to say thank you to two very special men.
thank you, Charles I of England, for making your chef make a dessert that was 'fresh- fallen snow but was much creamier and sweeter' aka ice cream. thank you. even though you died because you were too selfish to share it with the world. 'The King wanted the delicacy to be served only at the Royal table and offered the cook 500 pounds a year to keep it that way. Sometime later, however, poor Charles fell into disfavour with his people and was beheaded in 1649. But by that time, the secret of the frozen cream remained a secret no more. The cook, named DeMirco, had not kept his promise.' so, by default i guess, thank you, DeMirco!
most importantly, thank you otto wichterle for inventing the contact lense! although leo da vinci had some pretty good designs, you were the one who saw it through and enabled me to see without wearing glasses the thickness of bottle tops. "Because of his open activities during 1968 and particularly after the August Soviet-led occupation, the "normalisation" regime punished Otto Wichterle by removing him from his executive positions and by gradually making his research work more difficult." its like mccarthyism ... how silly to stop people doing research and things simply because you are scared of an idea ... freedom of a nation but still abide by the harnessing of thoughts ... hypocrisy! i think that if your notion of governance is good enough, then it will not be torn down by anything else. (look at me descending into pompous political babble again! sorry... i try so hard!)
and so tonight, after work, i will go home and get into my pjs and, before i pop out my lenses, i will watch some Anderson Cooper 360 that i recorded firstly because i am a geek and secondly i can because i will actually be able to see. and then i will eat a bowl of ice cream simply because i can. its a hommage.
and now, you know!
posted by sarah @ 9:18 AM
9 Comments:
I'm sorry to be the one to point this out but, Charlie and co were not the first to do ice-cream. Apparently during their little world conquest thingy, the romans used to have a constant supply of ice and snow braught down from the alps to ensure that they were able to keep on having ice-cream. And they were not the first. Apparently, before the romans the origins of ice-cream become somewhat blurry but they definitely had it. So thank the italians of yesteryear instead of that charlie king guy.
Either way, it was definitely a godsend!
no!
i did my research LUke!!
and no matter what people say, to me, the whole snow and fruit juice thing? those are SNOW CONES. ice cream may look like snow, but it doesnt have nearly the right texture for what i consider to be ice cream
as most of the books on ice cream say (yes there are books) - its blurry what the origins are. i choose to say 'thanks charles'
you italians ... ;)
ps how is the zoo? i LOVE That orangutang!
ahhhh ....
an argument about ice cream!
last night shaks and i had a conversation about sausages!
it all started when sarah asked me if i like russians. it was a very captivating conversation about sausages!
ice cream and contact lenses are two of my most favourite things! please find out who invented coco pops. and the ghd hair straightner.
love shakti
(even though im going to choose the anonymous identity)
it all started when sarah asked me if i like russians. it was a very captivating conversation about sausages!
ice cream and contact lenses are two of my most favourite things! please find out who invented coco pops. and the ghd hair straightner.
love shakti
(even though im going to choose the anonymous identity)
dear shakti.
you posted twice.
hehehe. hoooo hooo. ha ha. ;)
as for ice cream.. not sure about who invented ice cream *but i'll go with Sarah's version for now cos it's her blog. heehee.
but do you know who invented Milo? It was a dude by the name of Sir Milo de Cogan, who was clearly an ancestor of mine.
So now i'm famous. for Milo.
The biggie. Who invented God?
The Man.
Damn The Man! Party at Empire!
I have heard other stories about the origins of ice cream, but I prefer yours :)
And I record Anderson Cooper too – love watching him in the evenings. So I guess that makes us both geeks…
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