How Milkshakes Came To Be

Once a farmer named Jack lived in Arizona. This was a very hot climate for Jack. Jack the farmer worked very long hours in the field and often needed something cold to drink. He asked his wife, Mary, to bring him a cold drink while he worked the fields. She brought him a tall glass of lemonade and filled the glass with ice, but the lemonade was never cold enough.

They tried everything they could think of to make the lemonade colder. Then they tried other drinks, but nothing was cold enough.

One day Jack had a great idea. He decided to put one of his cows into a big spinning freezer. He left it there for twenty-four hours, hoping the cow’s milk would come out ice cold.

The next day, when farmer Jack took his cow out of the spinning freezer, he couldn’t wait to milk it. When he tried to milk the cow, he found out that the milk was creamy. He put some in a cup and took a tiny sip. He spit it back out right away. It tasted awful! I’ll have to think of a way to sweeten this, he thought.

So, Jack began feeding the cow vanilla, strawberries, and chocolate cocoa beans from his crop. He started the process all over again. He gathered three cows and put them in his big spinning freezer for twenty-four hours. The next morning Jack took all three of the cows out of the freezer and milked them.

When Jack milked the cows, much to his surprise, he had chocolate-, strawberry-, and vanilla-flavored milk! He tasted the creamy milk from all three cows and thought they were all very cold and delicious! Jack called for his wife, saying, “Hurry dear, I need you to taste my creation!”

Mary ran outside to see what Jack was talking about. She tasted the milk and said to Jack, “What should we call this?” Before Jack could reply, Mary yelled, “Let’s call it a milkshake!” Jack agreed.

From that day forward, Jack’s creamy, cold, flavored drink has been known as a milkshake.