zarp86@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their StartupEnglish
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11 months agosoft serve ice cream was partly invented by Maggie Thatcher, much-maligned ice queen of Britiain
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.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-margaret-thatcher-soft-serve-myth
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France
The joke here being that Elon is a Nazi who took over Twitter? Not sure really.