James Bond Actor Roger Moore Created Magnum Ice Cream

The dictionary definition of the word dessert might mean “a sweet food eaten at the end of a meal,” but on Eat an Extra Dessert Day, celebrated on September 4, that description does not apply. So don’t hold back. You can indulge in dessert any time during the day and even sneak to the refrigerator after bedtime to have that last slice of cake.

• 3000 BC – Ice cream dates back to 3000 B.C.
• 500 BC – Sugar was used in India before 500 B.C.
• 12th Century – the sugar trade expanded to Europe and dessert production rocketed after the Industrial Revolution when preservatives and the processing of food changed for the better.
• 1381 – The first recipe for apple pie is printed.
• 1400 – Gingerbread is created by soaking breadcrumbs in spices and coating them with honey.
• 1700 – Topped with chocolate and filled with cream, cream puff pastry evolves gradually over several decades.
• 1740 – Early cupcake recipes are recorded by this time.
• 1800s – Lemon and meringue custard are popular, and the pie form is created during this time.
• 1800s – The Industrial Revolution introduced packaged and processed food, including pre-made desserts, making sweet treats widely available for the first time.
• 1840 – Queen Victoria of England, who got married in 1840, had a wedding cake that was a single-tier fruit cake and weighed a whopping 300 pounds. It was covered in white icing and had busts of the couple on top.
• 1974 – The concept of “food holidays” began to emerge in the United States, with specific days being dedicated to different types of food throughout the year.
• 2000s – With the rise of social media, food holidays gained more popularity as people started to share photos of their meals and treats online, including desserts.
• 2018 – Eat an Extra Dessert Day was first observed as a designated food holiday, giving sweet tooth enthusiasts a reason to indulge guilt-free.
• The term dessert stems from the French word ‘desservir,’ meaning ‘to clear the table.’ After the main meal the table is cleared of used dishes and dessert is then served.
• Chocolate chips were invented after chocolate chip cookies.
• Baked Alaska was named after Alaska’s annexation.
• Girl Scout cookies were originally homemade.
• Desserts in the past were often for wealthy people. A sugar sculpture made in the 16th century could cost about as much as an average person’s wage for the year.
• Doughnut scientists estimate that over 10 billion doughnuts are made in the USA each year. They’re so popular that the word “Donut” is starting to be used as a name. Currently, in the USA 13 people have been christened or have changed their first names to “Donut.”
• The Veriohukainen Blood Pancake Has Got To Be The Grossest Dessert Ever! These vampire-friendly desserts are made by mixing milk, sugar and, wait for it… pigs blood to make delicious pancakes.
• Fast becoming the national dessert of Scotland, the deep-fried, battered Mars bar, invented in a chip shop in Glasgow, has got to be one of the most unhealthy foods ever created
• Shakespeare Liked Desserts! And we don’t mean the kind of “Just Desserts” served out to villains like Macbeth and King Lear. We’re talking Shakespearean pancakes, mentioned in both in All’s Well that Ends Well: “As a pancake for Shrove Tuesday” and As You Like It.  “Now I’ll stand to it, the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and yet was not the knight forsworn”
• In the olden days James Bond actor Roger Moore invented the Magnum ice cream after complaining about getting chocolate on one of his white suits whilst eating a choc-ice. His idea to put a stick in the choc ice was taken up by Walls Icecream and thus the magnum was created!

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