Discount and Offers For College Students | yupcard.com: Sweeten The Deal at Your Dine-Out With These Dessert Facts

Desserts are our answer to life’s lemons! Whether we have a broken heart, a blocked brain, a burnt pocket or blown self-esteem, we turn for sweet consolation towards mushy, gooey, steamy, melting, warm and fuzzy deliciousness which come in a variety of shapes, colours and sizes and leave our mouths satiated with an after taste of comfort, support and sweetness. 

So, we thought you could prepare to further sweeten the deal at dessert with these few totally useless dessert facts:

An 11-year old discovered the Popsicle!

Popsicle as we know it was first invented by Frank W. Epperson when he was only 11-years old. He had left a glass container that had soda powder, water and a mixing stick at his back porch overnight once, by accident. The next morning he woke up to find the whole thing frozen into an amazingly fun Popsicle. Then he went on to patent that idea in 1924.

The word origin for strudel comes from a German that means whirlpool!

The oldest recipe for strudel comes from 1696 from Vienna city. However, it is not known who invented strudel, but it has been discovered that the recipe for strudel was invented from an older recipe of a different dessert. Baklava is a popular dessert from the Ottoman Empire, it is believed by most people that it came from Germany. 

There is a piece written about the cheesecake written by a 5^th century, Greek Physician!

The Greek Physical Egemus wrote a great piece describing the art of cheesecake. He also wrote a treatus about pulses, which was a first as well.  

Bear claws were invented in Western USA:

The first printed reference to this delicious American dessert was made by a newspaper in San Francisco. 

Two towns fought over the discovery of the banana split:

The first being Latrobe, Pennsylvania and the other being Wilmington, Ohio. And the most interesting fact about this incident is that both towns suggested this recipe was first popularised by college students. 

The world’s most expensive desserts costs USD 25,000

This dessert is the most expensive dessert in the world called as frozen hot chocolate ice cream sundae, which is available at Serendipity 3 in New York City. The reason it costs 25,000 dollars is because it contains 28 different varieties of cocoa topped with edible gold. Additionally to further regal up the dessert affair, people can eat this dessert with a golden spoon that is studded with diamonds and people are allowed to take this spoon home!

The biggest gingerbread house was INR 2520 square feet!

This gingerbread house was built in Texas. The total amount of calories contained in this gingerbread is 35.8 million. But thankfully no one decided to eat this dessert, it was only meant for bragging!

Here were some amusing facts about desserts. If these did not have you completely bowled over, then there is another sweet fact about desserts that definitely will – with a YUP Card subscription you can enjoy fat Students discounts on Food& Beverages at a whole range of dessert shops in Kolkata. All you need to do is get a silly selfies face ready and pay 499/- for subscribing to this only plastic card that saves money instead of spending them. The card is valid for 12 months and can be used unlimited number of times without any minimum billing preconditions!