Without further ado, here are six facts you might not know about ice cream sandwiches. From country to country, this dessert picks up many different nicknames: giant sandwich, chipwich, cream between, vanilla slice, slider, and more! Whatever you call it, one thing’s for sure: the ice cream sandwich is one of the best inventions of all time. We love, love, love ice cream sandwiches here at home in America, but they’re also loved worldwide. Ok, so “skins” doesn’t sound too appetizing, but once you hear the evolution of the sandwich and all the different ways it’s made, “skins” is rather suitable. “Ice cream sandwich:” a frozen dessert consisting of ice cream between two biscuits, skins, or cookies. Let’s start at square one, because why not. No one really cares to hear how you feel about the upcoming weather, but hearing that the first ice cream sandwich was made with sponge cake? Now they’re listening. Sometimes it’s random knowledge, like these fun facts, that make for the best conversation. Of all the random things you can read about on the Internet, we’re so glad you’re choosing to learn more about ice cream sandwiches. “The biology of smelling a roast: pictorial representation of the processes that occur in a man’s head between the sensation of smell and the ‘reflectory’ salivation.” Graphic and caption from Fritz Kahn’s “Das Leben des Menschen III,” Franckh/Kosmos, Stuttgart 1926, plate XV, © Kosmos.Everyone loves fun facts, and everyone screams for ice cream this is bound to be a fun time. Image and caption appear in “Fritz Kahn” (TASCHEN, 2013). There’s a scene in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972) where Woody Allen re-imagines the body as a spacecraft. Up in the brain-depicted as mission control-tiny technicians direct the action. Meanwhile, down in the body’s nether regions, Woody, dressed as a “sperm” in a bright white jumpsuit, waits for the signal to deploy (it’s date night). Woody might not have realized it, but he was nearly half a century late to this gag. By the mid-1920s, the German graphic designer Fritz Kahn was already experimenting with images that compared the body to a factory and brain circuitry to control panels. His goal was a bit more exalted: educate the public about how their bodies worked using familiar machines and other objects as visual metaphors for biological processes.Ī new book, Fritz Kahn, reacquaints us with this pioneer of popular science communication. Co-authored by the writer and Kahn scholar Uta von Debschitz and her brother, graphic designer Thilo von Debschitz, Fritz Kahn features 280 illustrations executed between 19. Sourced from books and magazines long out of print, the volume represents only 10 percent, roughly, of the designer’s massive output. “Man As Industrial Palace.” Fritz Kahn poster, supplement to Das Leben des Menschen III, Franckh/Kosmos, Stuttgart 1926, Fritz Schüler, © Kosmos. Image appears in Fritz Kahn (TASCHEN, 2013). Kahn’s most enduring image, “Man as Industrial Palace,” appears on the cover. It shows a cross section of a man’s head and torso subdivided into a multi-tiered factory. In the brain, white-coated technicians (sound familiar?) run gland, muscle, hearing, and vision centers. In the “nervous center,” tiny secretaries operate a switchboard. Moving south, factory workers in the liver repackage sugar as starch-like glycogen and convert it back again. Woody would have been right at home.Ĭomplex analogies like “Man as Industrial Palace” reflect Kahn’s hands-on knowledge of the human body. Throughout much of the 1910s and ’20s, Kahn led what he once described as “a double life”: hospital doctor by day, writer for a German science book club called Kosmos in his off hours. With the ascension of Nazism, Kahn, who was Jewish, fled Germany in 1933 to Palestine, France, and then to America. (An old friend from his Berlin days named Albert Einstein helped him obtain a visa.) Despite the chaos, Kahn wrote and designed 10 books over his long career, including The Cell, The Human Body, and Our Sex Life. While he wasn’t a draftsman, Kahn worked closely with illustrators to execute his vision.
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