Ice Cream

The International Association of Ice Cream Makers credit Syrian immigrant, Ernest Hamwi, with using his wafer-like pastries to hold a scoop of ice cream on this day.  Thus, the ice cream cone was born at World's Fair in St. Louis.  He called it a World's Fair Cornucopia.  

This was the reported date when some say the ice cream cone was created and seen for the first time ... at the St. Louis World's Fair, of course.

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