Ice cream Cone and Ice cream Sundae

The Ice cream Cone
An enterprising Italian fellow named Marchiony made and sold ice cream from a push cart in New York City during the late 1800s and early 1900s. In order to make it convenient for his customers to eat, he served it in a cup shaped waffle, which he also made. Although he generally doesn't get credit for it, he probably should be noted as being the first to use a cone for ice cream. Probably the reason he doesn't is because in 1903 he patented his idea as a waffle "cup" with a handle and sloping sides.

The story generally told is that at the 1904 world's fair there was an ice cream vendor, named Charles Menches, selling ice cream in glass or ceramic cups and in the concession booth next to him was an acquaintance of his, Ernest Hawmi, selling a type of middle eastern waffle called Zalabia. Zalabia is a crisp, water-based waffle usually served with syrup. When the ice cream vendor ran out of clean cups and couldn't hand-wash them fast enough to keep up with customer demand, he was in a panic; but the waffle maker had a better idea. He rolled his waffles into a cornucopia shape, worked out a business deal with the ice cream vendor, and the first actual ice cream cones came into being.

The Ice cream Sundae
It was called a Sunday, a Sundi, a Sundae and the dispute rages as to where it was first created. Evidence points to Ithaca, New York where the students at Cornell University latched on to a dish of ice cream with a cherry on top and cherry syrup poured over all. This is disputed by folks from Virginia to Wisconsin and back to upstate New York, this time Buffalo. Each disputed city offers a different reason for the creation being called a Sunday, though that day of the week always comes into play. Some say the first Sunday was created with chocolate syrup. Wherever the first Sunday was created, it was off and running, traveling across the country like wildfire, developing its own variations as it went. The banana split, an invention of waist-expanding possibilities with a split banana and not one, but three scoops of ice cream and three different syrups was the result of this rage. And serves as an example of the deeply-held American belief that more is better. (inmamaskitchen)


See also :
Sushi
Soto