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==History== According to ''[[The New Yorker]]'', the first written account of a cold-stimulus headache comes from [[Patrick Brydone]] in the 1770s. Brydone described a British naval officer in Sicily who consumed a large bite of [[ice cream]] and spat it out "with a horrid oath".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Twilley |first=Nicola |date=June 8, 2024 |title=How the Fridge Changed Flavor |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/how-the-fridge-changed-flavor |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240609102911/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/how-the-fridge-changed-flavor |archive-date=June 9, 2024 |access-date=June 9, 2024 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref> The term ''ice-cream headache'' has been in use since at least January 31, 1937, contained in a journal entry by Rebecca Timbres published in the 1939 book ''We Didn't Ask Utopia: A Quaker Family in Soviet Russia''.<ref name="utopia">{{cite web |last1=Timbres |first1=Harry |last2=Timbres |first2=Rebecca |date=1939 |title=We didn't ask Utopia: a Quaker family in Soviet Russia |publisher=[[Prentice Hall]] |url=https://archive.org/stream/wedidntaskutopia00timbrich#page/224/mode/2up/search/ice+cream |access-date=2013-02-19 |quote=But your nose and fingertips get quite numb, though, and if you don't keep rubbing your forehead, you get what we used to call 'an ice cream headache.'}}</ref>{{primary inline|date=November 2017}} The first published use of the term ''brain freeze'', in the sense of a cold-stimulus headache, was in 1991.<ref name="pubbf">{{cite news|title=Confessions of a City Literate|publisher=[[New Hampshire Union Leader]]|date=27 May 1991}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=October 2020|reason=How do we know this was the first use in print?}}{{efn|The earliest recorded use of the term "brain freeze" (with a different meaning) was in 1968 in a Canadian academic journal.{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}}} [[7-Eleven|7-{{zwj}}Eleven]] has [[trademark]]ed the term.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BRAINFREEZE{{dash}}Trademark Details|url=http://trademarks.justia.com/868/37/brainfreeze-86837996.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606074230/https://trademarks.justia.com/868/37/brainfreeze-86837996.html|archive-date=2020-06-06|access-date=2020-06-06|website=Justia Trademarks|language=en}}</ref>
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