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When the ice cream sundae was made
Soda fountain owner, Ed Berners of Two Rivers, Wisconsin is reputed to have invented the first ice cream sundae in 1881. -
Chester Platt was caught selling ice cream sundae
Chester Platt was indeed selling ice cream in the early 1890s and had the necessary supplies on hand to create the first sundae. -
illegal to sell soda on Sunday
The town of Evanston, Illinois was one of the first towns to pass such a law around the year 1890. -
When the ice cream sundae became popular
Ice cream sundae soon became the weekend semi-official soda fountain confection in the beginning of the 1900s and quickly gained popularity. -
Chester Platt made a business to sell ice cream sundae
Chester Platt bought a business and ran it through the 1920s. -
Ben Jerry's Vermont
It was founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont, and operates globally as a subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever. -
The sundae fight song
The city even sang about it in a sundae fight song delivered to Ithaca in 2006.
