The
Google doodle today is about the origin of the ice-cream sundae; to be clear they refer to just the term "Sundae" because flavoured ice (literally) and snow have been around for millennia and iced cream (literally) with fruit has been around for centuries; also, ice-cream has been in the USA since before the USA existed as the USA and flavoured ice-cream existed at least seven decades before the '
controversy' and ice-cream sodas outdate it about a decade; so what we have here is the claims of who called it a "Sunday" first, and why! Ithaca, New York certainly have the most/best
documented claim with several letters and ads from the period and even the probable reason for the spelling: a failed attempt to trademark the term "Sunday" but
Evanston's claim with Richard Lloyd Jones' "Sunday soda" tale AND the history from
Two Rivers Wisconsin (1881, so a decade earlier) have merit!
Yeah, yeah, I know it's obvious I don't want to take sides!
2 comments:
Used to love ice cream sodas - ice cream + cream soda (like you didn't know). Sadly like my hair, Labour governments and Nick Cleggs integrity they are a thing of the past.
Isn't it great that towns and cities can argue over food naming rights, beats arguing over foreign policy.
neighbours argue, streets argue, areas of villages/towns/cities argue about just about everything, and sometimes peopel get hurt or even killed; unfortunately when you get to national level lots of people start getting killed!
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