Celebrate History with National Hot Fudge Sundae Day, July 25
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( Gerry Furth-Sides ) Popular says that the name “ ice-cream sundae ” was created in answer to the “ Blue Laws ” mandating ice cream sodas not be sold on Sundays because they were besides “ frilly. ” This was because the “ righteous ” were very much against what they called “ sucking pop ” ( specially on the Sabbath and the clergy started preaching against them ). The dish has even gone by other names at respective meter, most notably “ sundi ” and “ sondhi ” to avoid offending the sensibilities of the devoutly religious .
Each city seems to have its own origin. We were so felicitous to learn that at the call on of the twentieth Century, our own favored CC Brown on Hollywood Boulevard is credited with starting Los Angeles history of the blistering fudge sundar though we preferred the yellowish brown. And the homemade caramel of our acquaintance @ postpone conversation these days !
The biggest competition is between Two Rivers, Wisconsin and Ithaca, New York. The two cities have sparred in a good-natured “ Sundae War ” since the 1970 ’ mho. Famed writer, H. L. Mencken ( 1880-1956 ), in his 1945 book, The american english language : supplement 1, while writing on the suffix “ DAE ” as in ice-cream sundae, wrote that the “ most plausible of their theories ascribes the presentation of the ‘ ice-cream sundae ’ itself to George Hallauer of Marshall, Illinois, and the invention of its name to George Giffy of Manitowoc, Wisconsin ” because it predated all others. purportedly it was here that the beginning ice cream ice-cream sundae was served by accident in 1881. Druggist Edward Berners ( 1863-1939 ), owner of Ed Berners ’ Ice Cream Parlor was asked by a George Hallauer asked for a frost cream sodium carbonate. Because it was Sunday, the Sabbath, Mr. Berners compromised and put ice rink cream in a serve and poured the chocolate syrup on top ( chocolate syrup was only used for making season frosting cream sodium carbonate at the time ). Ed Berners sampled the dish and liked it adequate to begin featuring “ ice skim with syrup ” in his shop for the same price as a serve of ice skim. This ice cream concoction cost a nickel, and soon everybody wanted some .
The confection cost a nickel and soon became very popular, but was sold entirely on Sundays. One day a ten year erstwhile girl insisted she have a dish of ice cream “ with that gorge on top, ” saying they could “ pretend it was Sunday. ” After that, the sweet was sold every day in many flavors. It lost its Sunday only association, to be called ICE CREAM SUNDAE when a glassware salesman placed an order with his company for the long canoe-shaped dishes in which it was served, as “ Sundae dishes. ”
Edward Berners closed his ice cream living room in 1927. today, the Washington House Hotel Museum in Two Rivers includes a replica of Ed Berner ’ sulfur ice cream parlor. The Wisconsin State Historical Society recognizes Two Rivers, Wisconsin as the birthplace of the ice-cream sundae and in 1973 erected a diachronic marker in Two Rivers Central Memorial Park that reads :
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