Sarah, audio.

How about a round of applause for Nick and Mike and the Doe Boys?

Come on!

Oh, whatever.

Seemless.

April 8, 2013.

Margaret Thatcher, aka the Iron Lady, who'd served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

for the entirety of the 1980s, paralleling Ronald Reagan's conservative presidency, died

of a stroke at the age of 87.

The next week she would receive an official state funeral, which was met by hundreds of

hecklers and protesters, many of whom turned their back on the procession, still bitter

over her economically-runous policies of deregulation, privatization, and union busting.

But back in the 1950s, decades prior to her divisive stewardship of the UK, Thatcher

made an unquestionably positive contribution to society.

While working as a chemist for J. Lyons and Company, she helped develop a namulsifier

used in the production of soft-serve ice cream.

Over in the former British colony of the United States, a revolutionary war of sorts would

take place over this creamier area version of the frozen treat, the combatants, Tom Carvelle

of Carvelle ice cream, and Illinois-based John Fremont McCulloch, who went by the nickname

Grandpa.

Though both their brands endured this day, it was Grandpa McCulloch's focus on creating

a restaurant with a menu of sweet treats and hot food that ultimately put his company

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