Here's a nice way to celebrate your Sunday today - enjoy a yummy ice cream sundae and lift the ice cream dish in honor of 119 years of deliciousness.
"The history of the ice cream sundae has actually spawned quite the rivalry between two U.S. cities that claim to be its birthplace – Ithaca, N.Y. and Two Rivers, Wisconsin – and Google appears to be siding with Ithaca.
On April 3, 1892, the Rev. John M. Scott visited the Platt & Colt Pharmacy – and its owner Chester Platt – in Ithaca after services at the Unitarian Church. Platt served up two bowls of vanilla ice cream, but decided to jazz it up with cherry syrup and candied cherry, according to What's Cooking America. The duo were so pleased with the creation that Scott suggested it be named after the day it was created, and the "Cherry Sunday" was upon us.
By April 5, the pharmacy was advertising its 10-cent Cherry Sunday in the Ithaca Daily Journal, icecreamsundae.com reports.
The Wisconsin story, meanwhile, puts the creation of the sundae in 1881. Someone at Ed Berners' Ice Cream Parlor ordered an ice cream soda, but because it was the Sabbath and fizzy drinks were frowned upon, Berners instead put chocolate syrup on ice cream. It's a nice story, but according to What's Cooking America, Wisconsin birth records suggest that Berners would've only been 17 in 1881 and, therefore, unlikely to have owned an ice cream parlor, so the Ithaca story is more probable.Those aren't the only cities who claim to have created the sundae, however. As icreamsundae.com notes, shops in Buffalo, Norfolk, and Plainfield, Ill., among others, have also laid claim." ~ authored by Chloe Albanesius of PC Magazine
I won't join in the argument about who can claim being first I'm just glad it happened. I don't have a real soda-fountain style sundae often, but boy when I do they are soooo delicious. Perfectly delicious. Back in the 70's my girlfriend and I would make a sundae our dinner on occasion, swapping out meat and potatoes calories for a yummy sundae instead.
YUM.
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My stepfather owned a luncheonette with a soda fountain and I worked there in my early teens. I liked the sodas, especially an A-cream (or egg-cream), kind of an early Yoohoo. Chocolate soda with a bit of milk. Mmmm.
ReplyDeleteCherry soda was my favorite, at the corner drug store soda fountain.... what a treat. Of course the ice cream store was a favorite hang out as well.
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