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Whipped Cream Day

5 January

Max Straeten / morguefile.com

The 5th of January is Whipped Cream Day!

At first blush, it’s understandable if your first reaction is — what? The Christmas and New Year bingeing ended just four days ago, and already you’re saying now let’s eat some whipped fat?

There’s actually a reason for it, though.

On this day in 1914, Aaron “Bunny” Lapin was born in St Louis, Missouri. In 1948, he invented the aerosol spray cream known still as “Reddi-Wip.” At the time, there had already been spray creams available for a few years, but you had to take the canisters back to the factory to get them refilled, and they were only available in a few places in Illinois. Bunny invented the convenient, single-use disposable can, and the rest is both kitchen and landfill history.

So, have a little whipped cream today in Bunny’s honour, and even though we know you normally wouldn’t, go on, make it aerosol whipped cream from a spray can. After all, it’s your kitchen, no one else is watching.

#WhippedCreamDay

Literature & Lore

“It’s a marshmallow day in the winter,
When the snow comes to cover the ground.
It’s the time for play, it’s a whipped cream day,
And we wait for it the whole year round!”

— Lyrics by Carl Sigman; sung by Dean Martin.

whipped cream on face

Ben Kerckx / Pixabay.com / 2015 / CC0 1.0

This page first published: Mar 12, 2004 · Updated: Dec 30, 2020.

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