National Chocolate Milk Day.

0:03 Calarugus Shark Media. Hi. I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme is National Chocolate Milk Day. Beloved beverages, dairy history and drinks with surprising backstories. Question one, on National Chocolate Milk Day, we celebrate a creamy twist that took off in eighteen the century Britain after a traveling physician tasted Jamaica's cacao, which naturalist and later Royal Society President helped popularize drinking chocolate mixed with milk in Britain, lending his name to chocolate products for centuries. Question two. Before home refrigeration was common, milk could carry dangerous pathogens like tuberculosis and typhoid. What heat treatment process named for a nineteen the century French scientist dramatically reduced milk born diseases and became standard in the early nineteen hundreds. Question three, marketed by a Philadelphia pharmacist at the eighteen seventy six Centennial Exhibition, which sweet spiced soft drink was originally pitched as a temperance friendly root tea before its name was changed to appeal to working men. Question four, named after a golf legend who regularly ordered the mix. What refreshing non alcoholic beverage blends iced tea and lemonade into a tart sweet classic. Question five,

1:37 in a twist of fast food history rooted in dairy, what brand of high capacity milkshake machine was salesman Ray Kroc pedaling when he discovered the McDonald Brothers restaurant, a meeting that eventually led him to build the McDonald's Empire. We'll be right back with these answers after this break, Welcome back. Question one. Which physician popularized chocolate with milk in Britain? Answer Sir Hans Sloane. Sloane encountered cacow in Jamaica in the sixteen eighties and promoted a milk based preparation on his return. Apothecaries and later Cadbury marketed Sir Hans Sloane's milk chocolate, though Mesoamerican traditions had long mixed cacao with water and spices. Question two. What heat process named for a French scientist, makes milk safer? Answer Pasteurization, named for Louis Pasteur. The method involves heating liquids to kill harmful microbes. Its widespread adoption in the early twentieth century saved countless lives by curbing illnesses transmitted through milk.

2:42 Question three, which drink hyped at the eighteen seventy six Expo began as root tea? Answer? Root beer? Quaker pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires introduced Hire's root Beer at the eighteen seventy six Fair, rebranding his herbal root tea as root beer. For broad appeal. It became a signature American soft drink flavored with sassafras or sarsaparilla and other botanicals. Question four, what iced tea plus lemonade? Drink is named for a golfer? Answer? Arnold Palmer. Golfer Arnold Palmer frequently requested the combo, and the name stuck after fans and restaurants picked it up in the nineteen sixties. The alcoholic variation is sometimes called a John Daily. Question five, which milkshake machine was Ray Kroc selling before McDonald's answer, Prince Castle multi mixer. Kroc sold the multi mixer, a multi spindle milkshake maker, and was intrigued when the McDonald brothers ordered several at once.

3:38 In nineteen fifty four. His visit to their San Bernardino stand set the stage for McDonald's rapid expansion that concludes today's five daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.