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The Secret History of the Ice Cream Cone | Odessa News
Ice cream once cost a fortune—President Washington spent $200 on it in 1790, worth over $7,000 today. Thanks to refrigeration, it became affordable by the 1800s. Street vendors needed better ways to serve it, leading Italian immigrants to invent edible waffle cups and ice cream sandwiches. The real breakthrough came at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, where Syrian immigrant Ernest Hamwi rolled fried pastries into cones—calling them “cornucopias”—which became an instant sensation. By 1910, “cone” was the word, and Hamwi launched his own cone business. Machines soon automated cone-making, and…
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