When Alex Salmond was snapped feeding a Solero to a teenager at Stirling University back in 1999, no-one could have guessed how significant a moment it was.
Although it was taken 16 years ago, it resurfaced on Buzzfeed and has been a cult political talking point in recent months even inspiring a copycat picture involving Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson a few weeks ago.
It’s been a mystery that captured the imagination of a generation of Scots: who exactly was ‘Solero girl’ as she became known and how did the picture come to be taken in the first place?
Now though, that particular mystery seems to have been solved courtesy of The Herald.
It says it has tracked down ‘Solero girl’ to her new roots in Melbourne, Australia, where she lives with her husband and her two-year-old daughter bringing a sense of closure to the current General Election campaign with just hours left before polling day.
Kate Adamson, 33, told the paper she had gone along to Stirling University as a fresh-faced 17-year-old with her father for “something to do”.
A photographer produced the Solero to stunt up a picture and the rest they say is history.
“When the picture was published in The Sunday Herald they had a thought bubble over Alex Salmond’s head saying ‘there’s another sucker for a vote’,” she told The Herald.
“At the time I thought it was amusing as I couldn’t even vote… It was definitely a lesson for me in trusting the integrity of the media and not believing everything you read or see online or in the papers.
“It taught me how news can often be manipulated.”
Ms Adamson, who confessed to being “disappointed” by last year’s No vote in the referendum, added that some of comments made online in the years since about the picture were “misogynistic, sexist and aggressive”, but revealed she had not been embarrassed by the episode.
She also challenged Buzzfeed journalist Jamie Ross, who sparked fresh interest in the Solero picture, to find her favourite ice cream for her.
And no, it wasn’t a Solero.
“My favourite ice lolly is probably a Zoom but I don’t think they make those anymore… maybe Jamie Ross can track one down for me,” she told The Herald.