It's hard to think that smoothies have only been around since the middle of last century, with the huge popularity they now maintain. The life of the smoothie is by no means over yet, but how did it all start? How did one of the most popular and healthy snacks actually start out and get invented?
Smoothies need one component in order to be made, a blending device. The Waring "Blendor" came out in 1939 and their cookbooks in the 1940's published recipes for many "smoothees," such as a "banana smoothee" or a "pineapple smoothee".
The name "smoothee" or "smoothie" was then adopted by many printed materials for a product made in blenders. The Sunshine Juice Bar on the Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach California sold "Smoothies" as early as 1967 to hippies and the health conscious.
Smoothies have really started to become popular with the "fat nation" syndrome that the West is currently suffering from. Since obesity is becoming more and more commonplace, people are looking for easier, cheaper and more exciting ways to supplement their diets with vitamins and fruit. This led to smoothies gaining incredible popularity in the last decade along, with dedicated "smoothie bars" opening in cities and towns!
Many of these smoothie bars sell their own invented smoothies, however many smoothie drinkers have been inventing like mad over the past 20 years, and now 1000's of weird and wonderful recipes can be found for smoothies.
Books such as "Amazing Smoothies" have started to be sold, boasting many new and interesting smoothie recipes which are both fun and exiting, and healthy too.
Smoothies have had a longish life and don't look to be ending just yet! In fact they look to be getting even more popular as time goes by!
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