Soap used in place of Whipped Cream
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
September 19, 2019 7:16pm CST
Do you have a sweet tooth?
If you lived back in the Victorian Era, possessed a sweet tooth, and lived in or visited France, you might have eaten soap.
That's right. Soap.
Confectioners were caught using soap in place of whipped cream. Now you might think that people were able to tell the difference, but they weren't. The whipped soap was sweetened and so looked and tasted much like the real stuff.
And you thought putting chemicals in food was a new thing. Nope, it seems even The Victorians were trying to cut costs where they could.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2212900/soap_used_for_whipped_cream/
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
You are probably right. I do not eat very much whipped cream at all. Maybe once or twice a year with pumpkin pie.
I was watching a video a few months back, it was about how commercials made foods look delicious. They used shaving foam to make the layers of a cake stand out in place of icing.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
@LadyDuck Oh yes, I have seen those as well. The texture of the mashed potaotes are more visually appealing than the ice cream, and it does not melt. I imagine the heat from the lighting (on the commercials) would make ice cream melt far too quickly.
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@LadyDuck (502729)
• Italy
20 Sep 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum I buy fresh dairy cream and I whip it when I want shipped cream. I also love to watch those commercial, I have seen how they used colored mashed potatoes to "fake" ice creams in cones.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
This made me think of my youth when "I'll wash your mouth out with soap" was threatened.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
@Janet357 It makes me not want to use whipped cream for anything, but I hardly use it anyway. Maybe on my Pumpkin Pie once or twice a year.
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@Janet357 (75638)
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20 Sep 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum yes. very gross. of all alternatives for whipped cream!
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@Tina30219 (82978)
• Onaway, Michigan
20 Sep 19
Now that is just gross. I bet they was flaming at the mouth from it
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
I'm sure they were really angry, and I wouldn't surprised if they didn't have sores in their mouth because of it.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
Yeah, I liked that part of the article too.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
20 Sep 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum Yeah they cant but knowing it, would we taste it?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
@infatuatedbby Hmm, I'm not sure. We might taste something off about it but not know what it is.
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
20 Sep 19
Oh that is funny. Pretty sure bad mouth kids would have preferred that over the flaming lava soap.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
I got threatened to have my mouth washed out with soap but I think it was always a bar of dial or ivory.
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
20 Sep 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum Thankfully I hever had my mouth washed out with soap and it was never threatened. My mom always tells her horror stories of lava soap when she was little haha
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@samysotelo18 (7743)
• Mexico
20 Sep 19
oh my god nooooooooooo, a part of me wants to go ahead and try to make soap sweet pls stop hahah
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
Well, I mean.. There are sweet smelling soaps. I guess you were never threatened with having your mouth washed out with soap? It's not a good taste, I can assure you.
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@GardenGerty (169568)
• United States
20 Sep 19
ooh yuck. It is enough to make you foam at the mouth.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
Doesn't it remind you of being threatened with having your mouth washed out with soap? I know I saw this on television when I was a child (In a movie that I can't recall the name of) but I believe my mom threatened it a time or two herself.
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
20 Sep 19
Oh wow that is crazy. I would think it would make them sick.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
It probably upset their stomachs, but then in that time period, a lot of things were already poisoning them.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
Definitely makes you think twice about using whipped cream on the pumpkin pies this year.
@RasmaSandra (98106)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Sep 19
That was really crazy. Lucky no one got sick from eating the soap.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
There might have been people who did, but there was probably little to no way to distinguish it from other things that were poisoning the Victorians.
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@Marilynda1225 (91155)
• United States
20 Sep 19
I love whipped cream but the thought of soap being a substitute is really just plain yuck
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Sep 19
Yes, it definitely makes me think twice about using it on Pumpkin Pie this year.
