National Chocolate Milkshake Day is observed each year on September 12 by chocolate and ice cream lovers alike. Forget the calories in it for just this one day and enjoy a nice tall, thick and delicious, chocolate milkshake!
- The first time the term “milkshake” was used in print was in 1885.
- Dating from 1885, Chocolate Milkshake Day celebrates a drink loved by old and young alike. Originally served in bars, a milkshake was an alcoholic concoction of whisky, eggs and cream. If the customer enjoyed the drink, he shook hands and tipped the barman.
- By 1900, the whisky was replaced with chocolate, vanilla or strawberry syrup.
- The early 1900s – People began asking for this “new treat” with a scoop of ice cream.
- 1911 – Hamilton Beach’s drink mixers began to be used at soda fountains.
- In 1922, a Walgreens employee added Horlick’s malted milk powder to the mixture and the first malted shake was born.
- In 1922 – Steven Poplawski invented the electric blender or drink mixer.
- By the 1920s & 1930s, milkshakes became a popular drink at malt shops everywhere.
- Due to the invention of the blender, the milkshake began to take a chipped, aerated and frothy form as they are today.
- It was by the 1930’s that milkshakes became a popular drink in malt shops everywhere.
- 1936 – Inventor Earl Prince uses the basic concept behind the freon-cooled automated ice cream machine to develop the Multimixer, a “five-spindled mixer that could produce five milkshakes at once, all automatically, and dispense them at the pull of a lever into awaiting paper cups.”
- 1964 – Vincent Vega buys Mia Wallace the famous $5 milkshake in Quintin Tarantino’s iconic film “Pulp Fiction.”
- 2007 – The famous line “I drink your milkshake” makes its debut in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning film “There Will Be Blood.”
- 2019 – “Milkshaking,” an act of protest popular in the U.K., causes the police to request Edinburgh McDonald’s to refrain from selling milkshakes only to have Burger King tweet “We’re selling milkshake.”
- It takes 3,200,000 average-sized milkshakes to fill up an Olympic-sized pool.
- Australians can still buy traditional milkshakes in “milk bars,” which are much like old-fashioned drugstores with counter service.
- They’re usually served still in the steel cup.
- According to The Guinness Book of World Records, in 2000 Ira Freehof made the world’s largest milkshake. At 6,000 gallons it was the equivalent of 50,000 normal-sized shakes.
- Bostonians call milkshakes “frappes,” but this can also simply mean a glass of milk with syrup.
- In the United Kingdom, milkshakes are called “thick shakes.”
- In Latin America, the Spanish word is “batido.”
- A surefire cure for hangovers is to drink a banana milkshake sweetened with honey. It helps soothe your stomach, plus it builds up depleted blood sugar levels and electrolytes such as magnesium and potassium.
- Milkshakes were a popular food of the extras dressed in ape costumes during the filming of the original PLANET OF THE APES movie.
- Their masks didn’t allow them to eat a regular meal, but they placed a straw in their mouths.
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