It is another gorgeous weekend out here, and having your favorite iced beverage you can fall victim to the most feared cocktail-drinking malaise - The Brain Freeze. A tasteful bit of drink is followed by agonizing pain and a lot of laughs and chuckles by your friends, guests, collegues ...
Fortunately the web can explain the scientific behind the brain freeze. One reason for brain freeze - as 'analyzed' by an eight-year old in 2002: too hasty consumption of very cold food (like ice cream) results in the feared freeze. The experiment was not performed with cocktails by the school girl, but I'm glad to continue the scientific research into that direction. I guess I will have to do some more experiments today to reach a more stastically meaningful sample size...
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