ICE CREAM CONES , WHO COOKED THAT UP?

ICE CREAM CONES .. WHO COOKED THAT UP?

J.J. wonders...

Have you heard about the Great Ice Cream Cone Controversy?   It has the folks in St. Louis hopping mad -- and more than a little embarrassed.  After several decades of boasting that, like the hotdog bun and the  hamburger, the ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis Fair in 1904, it turns out that a New Yorker named Italo Marchiony had a U.S. patent on just such an item several months before the fair opened.  Marchiony had been selling lemon ice in cones from his pushcart since 1896,  and was issued a patent on his mold on December 13, 1903, after having applied for the patent in September of that year.  In his application he described his invention as being "like a waffle iron and producing several small pastry cups with sloping sides."  Sounds like an ice cream cone to me.

However, on a hot day the following summer at the St. Louis Fair,  Ernest M. Hamwi, a pastry baker of  Syrian origin, rolled up some of his Zalabia pastry and sold the cones to an ice cream concessionaire who was running out of dishes.  But -- uh oh -- a man named Abe Doumar claimed to have  invented the ice cream cone in a very similar way at the Fair, making a cornucopia of a waffle,  filling it with a scoop of ice cream, and selling it nightly after 6 p.m. where the concessionaires gathered in the entertainment area of the Fair.   Meanwhile, a Turkish native named David Avayou, who had owned several ice cream shops in New Jersey, claimed that he started selling edible cones at the St. Louis Fair because he'd long known about  French ice cream cones of pastry, or even of paper or metal.

It has been noted that there were around fifty ice cream stands at that Fair in St. Louis and a large number of waffle shops.   Doubtless, the 1904 Fair was the place where the cone became popular.  They called it the "World's Fair Cornucopia."  Nice touch.  And, in case you hadn't noticed, it caught on.

谁发明了甜筒

谁发明了甜筒？

你听说过著名的甜筒之论吗？它使得圣路易斯的人们非常困惑和处于十分尴尬的局面。甜筒之论流行了几十年，像热狗和汉堡包一样，甜筒最后被确定是在1904年的圣路易斯世博会上发明的。一个名叫Italo Marchiony的纽约人在那次世博会举办的几个月前已经取得锥形模具的美国专利。自1896年以来Marchiony就推着手推车，售卖用锥形的容器盛装的柠檬冰，而且通过在1903年9月申请并于当年12月13日发布了他这个专利。在他的专利申请书中，他把这项发明描述为“就像由薄饼烤模制作出来的杯形的薄饼，并带有溢出样的花边。”这看起来就是甜筒。

然而，在接下来的一个盛夏的大热天，在圣路易斯的世博会上，一位来自叙利亚的名叫Ernest M. Hamwi薄饼师傅，把他制作的Zalabia薄饼卷成锥形卖给了旁边一位刚好杯碟用完的冰淇淋销售商。就这样，这位名叫Abe Doumar声称他在世博会上用一种非常简单的方法创造了甜筒，这方法就是做许多薄饼，每个饼都卷成锥形，用一勺冰淇淋填满它，然后每晚6点钟过后卖给聚集在世博会招待区的商人们。同时，一位名叫David Avayou的土耳其当地人，其在新泽西拥有几间冰淇淋店，声称是他在圣路易斯世博会上首创可食用的锥形筒，因为他早就认识到用薄饼、纸或者金属弄成锥形制作的法国甜筒。

据了解，当时在圣路易斯世博会上大约有50档卖冰淇淋的，还有许多薄饼摊点（因而不断有人声称甜筒自己的发明）。有一点是可以肯定的，甜筒成名的地方就是1904年的世博会。人们称之为“世博会羊角”。没错， 甜筒的诞生是一次美丽的偶然。在你没有注意到的时候它就发生了。