July 23 in American History
At the St. Louis World's Fair, a waffle vendor next to an overwhelmed ice cream stand rolled his waffles into cones to help out — or so the popular story goes. However it really happened, the cone turned ice cream into a portable, uniquely American summer ritual.
In 1904: the ice cream cone goes mainstream. At the St.
At the St. Louis World's Fair, a waffle vendor next to an overwhelmed ice cream stand rolled his waffles into cones to help out — or so the popular story goes. However it really happened, the cone turned ice cream into a portable, uniquely American summer ritual.
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