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How the Ice Cream Cone Was Invented | Dover News
Ice cream was once a luxury reserved for the elite—George Washington spent $200 on it in 1790, worth over $7,000 today. It wasn’t until the 1800s that inventions made it more accessible, but eating it on the go? That was still a problem. Italian immigrants helped change that: Antonio Valvona patented edible waffle cups in 1902, and Italo Marchiony soon followed with ice cream sandwiches. But the real breakthrough came at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, where a young Syrian immigrant named Ernest Hamwi rolled fried pastries into cones after an ice cream vendor ran out of cups. The public went…
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