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Accidental Food Inventions We Can’t Live Without

22/10/2024 Carie Holmes 375

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Ice Cream Cones

Although Italo Marchiony is credited with patenting the ice cream cone in 1903, Ernest A. Hamwi also played a role. At the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, Hamwi, who was selling waffle-like pastries next to an ice cream vendor, noticed the vendor had run out of dishes. Hamwi rolled one of his pastries into a cone shape to hold the ice cream—and thus, the ice cream cone was born.