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Rivers
Home
of the Ice Cream Sundae |
More than one city in the United States
claims to be the home of the ice cream sundae. Chicago's claim
dates to around the 1890's. But Wisconsin's claim to sundae fame
began in 1881 in the City of Two Rivers. That year, George Hallaver
was a customer at a soda fountain at 1404 15th Street, which
was owned by Edward C. Berner. George asked Edward to top a dish
of ice cream off with chocolate sauce. Before, the sauce was
only used for ice cream sodas. The concoction cost a nickel,
and soon everybody wanted some. At first, they were only sold
on Sundays. One day, a ten year-old girl wanted a dish of the
ice cream with chocolate sauce on it. She said that they could
pretend it was Sunday so it would be OK to have one. After that,
the concoction was sold every day in many flavors. It almost
lost its name because it was sold everyday, but a glassware salesman
ordered some long, canoe-shaped dishes from his company to be
used for the special concoction. The salesman called them the
"Sundae Dishes".
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