Who REALLY Invented The Ice Cream Cone?
And if you thought the invention of the sundae was confusing, you aint seen nothin yet. Many histories proclaim that the ice cream cone was invented in 1904 at the St. Louis Worlds Fair (the Louisiana Purchase Exposition), when Syrian immigrant Ernest Hamwi gave some of his zalabia (a waffle-like pastry) from his pastry cart to neighboring Arnold Fornachou, who had run out of paper dishes to serve his ice cream in at his adjoining ice cream cart at the fair. Another version has Hamwi teaming up with a different ice cream vendor named Charles Menches, who also ran out of dishes. Well, waityet another vendor named Abe Doumar said he created the cone and sold it nightly at the fair. Hang onfair vendor David Avayou said the same thing, claiming he knew of cones of pastry from France. All in all there were about 50 ice cream vendors and more than a dozen waffle stands at the fair, so its very likely there were several vendors selling some version of an ice cream cone. Certainly, the cone be
