We all scream for waffles!

Many people claim to have invented the ice cream cone. The idea for an ice cream cone like food had been around since the 1700s but the form we know today was probably popularized at the 1904 worlds fair. At least five people at the St. Louis fair claim to have come up with the idea at the fair, many of them later became the heads of ice cream cone companies, and also reprted that the idea was shared among the vendors at the fair. Many of the men who claimed invention were from the middle east. The cone was made from zalabia, not waffles, in these stories, a pizzelle like wafer. An American man and his brother also claim to have begun the fad when they saw a lady wrap ice cream in a waffle so she could eat it in a more dainty way than licking it out of a glass. They then began molding waffles on cone shaped tool used with tent ropes.

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