Milkshake Fun-Fact's

Milkshakes were invented in 1885 and were first served with whiskey.
By the early 1900s, milkshakes were served with ice cream.
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.
Malted milk powder was invented in 1897 by James and William Horlick, but it was Ivar Coulson, a soda jerk for a Walgreen’s drug store, who first added it to milkshakes in 1922. This created the malted milkshake or just plain “malt.”
In 1922, the blender was created specifically for creating milkshakes by Steven Poplawsk Before that, the effort of shaking them up must have required a lot of upper body motion.
The world’s largest milkshake was six-thousand gallons, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
In 1963, the CIA unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Fidel Castro with a poisoned chocolate milkshake.
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.
It’d take three-million, 200-thousand average-sized milkshakes to fill up an Olympic-sized pool.

Rick Lovett