撒切尔夫人过世，对于她给英国人民留下的宝贵遗产总是争议很大。
Very little connected to Margaret Thatcher's legacy comes without an argument.
而伦敦主教在其葬礼悼词中关于撒切尔夫人是“发明甜筒冰淇淋的团队成员”的说法，也毫不例外引起了争议。撒切尔夫人在从政前从事科学研究的工作。
The claim by the bishop of London in his funeral address that the former scientist was "part of the team that invented Mr Whippy ice-cream" is no exception.
《新科学家》杂志于1983年7月报道称，撒切尔夫人当选为英国皇家学会的成员，而且她曾“于1949年至1951年前，为乔利昂工作开发冰激凌中的乳化剂”。
The New Scientist reported in July 1983, as Thatcher was elected a fellow of the Royal Society body of scientists, that she had worked "developing emulsifiers for ice-creams for Joe Lyons from 1949-51".
在上周撒切尔夫人离世后，《华盛顿邮报》声称她“帮助发明我们知道的冰淇淋”，补充说到她为了里昂团队制作便宜轻便的冰淇淋所做出的努力，是“我们确切知道的玛格丽特-撒切尔遗产的一部分”。
The Washington Post, in the wake of her death last week, claimed she "helped invent ice-cream as we know it", adding that her efforts as part of the Lyons team to create a cheap, airy ice-cream were "one aspect of Margaret Thatcher's legacy we can all feel unequivocally good about".
不过《纽约客》称这个关于“冰冻甜点的起源”的说法完全是虚构的。
It is, though, as the New Yorker has it, a "frozen-dessert origin myth".
根据《纽约客》的报道，早在撒切尔夫人投身乔利昂团队的10年前，Mr Whippy 式软冰淇淋就已经在美国诞生了，不过而乔利昂确实将软冰淇淋引入英国——该团队与美国冰淇淋巨头Mister Softee 合作，并获得其特许经营权。
Mr-Whippy-style soft-serve ice-cream originated in the US about a decade before Thatcher worked at J Lyons, it reports. When soft-serve arrived in the UK, J Lyons was indeed at the forefront – but it had teamed up with the US ice-cream behemoth Mister Softee and operated franchises under that name.
皇家学会于2011年5月发布文章指出，撒切尔夫人是乔利昂的食品研究科学家，但文中对她的工作的描写却非常粗浅。据称，她主要从事于改进蛋糕质量、饼馅和冰淇淋，以及皂化反应(制皂)的工作。
Thatcher was a food research scientist at J Lyons but, as a Royal Society article noted in May 2011, the details of her work there are sketchy. She reportedly worked on the quality of cake and pie fillings as well as ice-cream, and researched saponification (soap-making).
那篇文章称：“英国左翼势力将撒切尔夫人与软冰淇淋发明联系在一起。软冰淇淋中添加了空气、降低了品质而且提升了利润。里昂确实从事于这个项目的工作，但是没有确凿证据表明撒切尔夫人直接参与了发明。”
The article reports: "An oft-told anecdote in British left circles associates Thatcher with the invention of soft ice-cream, which added air, lowered quality and raised profits. Lyons certainly worked on this new product, but there is no firm evidence that Thatcher directly assisted in its invention."