Chocolate Milkshake!

This milkshake's mission is to have it's photo taken where ever milkshakes are made.  Ideally, the conscientious cacher who wants to help this TB along will host an event at an ice cream parlor, where it's photo can be captured with dozens of happy cachers slurping down chocolate milkshakes!  Note that disocvery logs do nothing to help a travel bug move long towards its mission, so instead of taking pictures of the tag and posting them all over the web, please consider participating and engaging by moving this TB from cache to cache, event to event, and even hosting an event of your own for it!

Enjoy your milkshake!

This trackable was launched at Hunterkat's Puzzler's Corner monthly event in Mt. Airy, Maryland on Septemeber 12th 2017.  Thanks to Kat for the information below:

September 12th is Chocolate Milkshake Day.  Dating from 1885, Chocolate Milk Shake Day celebrates a drink loved by old and young alike. Originally served in bars, a milk shake 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. In 1922, a Walgreen’s employee in Chicago - Ivar “Pop” Coulson - added a generous scoop of ice cream to his malted milk drink (now with milk, chocolate syrup, and malt powder) and the milkshake as we know it today was born. Also in 1922, the electric blender was invented by Steven Poplawski and sold to drug store soda fountains to make Horlick’s malted milk shakes.  Steven’s Electric company was eventually bought by John Oster in 1946, and is still going strong today.  I don’t know about you, but the original sounds like it’s worth trying, though I’ll never give up my blended chocolate malts!

1960: Sunbeam bujys the Joh Oster Electric Company

2001: Submean files for bankruptcy after Chainsaw Al (CEO) conducts massive accounting fraud

2002 Sunbeam emerges from bankruptcy as American Household, Inc. (AHI), with Sunbeam Prodcuts as a subsidiary

2004 AHI is purchased by the Jarden Corporation, and remains a subsidiary until 2004 when Jarden is bought by Newell Rubbermaid to form Newell Brands.  Sunbeam-Oster is still active today as a subsidiary of this group, and the term "Osterizer is synonomous with blender (som e good marketing there!).

Ok, so that's all fine and good, but when's the last time you went to an ice cream parlor and got a chocolate milkshake that was mixed with an Osterizer?  Hah!  The drink mixer you assocuate with the milkshake, you know, motor on top, long spindle with mixer blade on the bottom,metal cup, well those are made by Hamilton Beach.  Here's the gouge on them:

Founded in April 1910 by inventor Frederick J. Osius in Racine, Wisconsin, the Hamilton Beach Manufacturing Company took its name from two men Osius hired, Louis Hamilton and Chester Beach. He hired Hamilton as the new company's advertising manager, and Beach to work as a mechanic. Osius did not care for his own name, so he paid Hamilton and Beach $1000 each for the right to use their names instead. The company mostly sold products that Osius had invented and patented, but Chester Beach had invented a high-speed fractional motor in 1905, which the company used in many of its products. Osius designed the agitator implement for the company's first drink mixer, the Cyclone, introduced in 1911. Hamilton and Beach left the company in 1913 to form their own firm, Wisconsin Electric Company. Osius sold Hamilton-Beach to Scovill Manufacturing in 1922 and moved to Millionaires' Row in Miami Beach. The Hamilton Beach drink mixer, with its characteristic spindle and metal container, was found at soda fountains of drug stores throughout North America. Other products included stand mixers (for making batter), fans, and hair dryers. The spindle drink mixer was expanded in the 1930s to enable multiple milk shakes to be processed at once. The original company continues as the Hamilton Beach side of Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. As of 2012, all of Hamilton Beach's appliances are manufactured by subcontractors in China.

Hamilton Beach's parent company is Naaco Industries, and has a subsidiary called Proctor-Silex.  But that's a story for another travel bug.

GO GET A MILKSHAKE!