Oscars and Ice Cream......

So I am slowly building to a new exciting series of rants centering around the Oscars which I know are going to screwup once again, as most of the flims/ actors/ actresses, nominated make me want to vomit. I have been working on this series for quite some time so be prepared for a constant stream of update...More to come on that. Moving on. Time for an update I think.....Ready for this ...

I am still in college.

satisfied....I think that about sums up my life at the moment.

On to bigger and better things....Like ice cream. Well first, I don't think I post enough positive blogs. Second last week a group of my friends and I went up to the mall of america...not only did i get a really cute skirt (I kid you not) and shirt I had the best ice cream I had ever eaten, and personally I do consider myself a conoisseur of sorts. Thus I give you ice cream. What is this manna sent from the Heavens? Why divulge in its creamy goodness......Being as I am from Milwaukee and love ice cream so much.

( oh Fyi, most of the following story I have found from various sources including wikipedia and "The History of Ice Cream", written by the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (IAICM), Washington DC, 1978. So when you become skeptical and overly critical about my personal rendition of the history of ice cream ...you can do several things...first take a very large bluggening tool such as a bat or sledge hammer, and then raising your preferred tool of choice high above your head beat yourself with it, second you can then shove your foot up you prostieror, and then finally die a horrible miserable death)

The History of Ice Cream
by
susan

Once upon a time, centuries ago in a country ravaged by an epidemic of bad teeth, a rather weak ruler named Charles I of England hosted a sumptous state banquet for many of his friends who would later stab him in the back not unlike julius caesar and equally weak-willed family members. The meal, consisting of many delicacies of the day, had been pretty desent and all but something was missing...it needed that little zing.... After much preparation, the King's steriotypical french chef with a bad accent had concocted an apparently new dish which in reality was stolen from the chinese by Marco Polo who saw ice creams being made during his trip to China, who then on his return, introduced them to Italy and Catherine De Medici, stupidly passed it along to the chef of Charles the I instead of cashing in on an untapped market. It was cold and resembled fresh- fallen snow but was much creamier and sweeter than any other after- dinner dessert. The guests were delighted, as was Charles, who summoned the cook and asked him not to divulge the recipe for his frozen cream. 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. But then as we all know sometime later, however, Charlie royally pissed off parliment and got his head removed in 1649 by a slightly smarter individual named Oliver Cromwell. The recipe went underground for awhile until 1774, when an even smarter individual, a caterer named Phillip Lenzi, realized he was sitting on a goldmine, and not suprising went to America and announced in a New York newspaper that he had just arrived from London and would be offering for sale various confections, including ice cream. Then it took america by storm, becoming a delicacy for the elite. For example Dolley Madison, wife of U.S. President James Madison, served ice cream at her husband's Inaugural Ball in 1813. The first improvement in the manufacture of ice cream (from the handmade way in a large bowl) was given to us by a New Jersey woman, Nancy johnson, who in 1846 invented the hand-cranked freezer. By turning the freezer handle, they agitated a container of ice cream mix in a bed of salt and ice until the mix was frozen. Because Nancy Johnson, that wench, lacked the foresight to have her invention patented, she didn't get to have her name plastered on the patent records and did not get to rack in some serious cash. A similar type of freezer was, however, patented on May 30, 1848, by a Mr. Young, a youn man who apparently wanted to get in Nancy's pants...by calling it the "Johnson Patent Ice Cream Freezer". What a guy....Commercial production was begun in North America in Baltimore, Maryland, 1851, by Mr. Jacob Fussell, the smartest individual of all, now known as the father of the American ice cream industry.


and that my dears is what i am talking about. Oh and by the way check out the cool pic. I kind of DJ'd a 1920's speak easy party. Note very cool hat I bought from Ragstock for the low low price of $6.50 hell yeah