Banana Split; Ice Cream Soda; Hot Soda; Rocky Road

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BANANA SPLIT (continued)

     OED has 1920 for "banana split."
     This is from CONFECTIONERS JOURNAL, "The Twenty-Five Best Selling Cold
Soda Drinks," July 1907, pg. 102, col. 1:

     BANANA SPLITS
     Good fancy drinks make good leaders at the soda fountain and besides
welling well are an advertisment for your whole soda business.
     Peel and split a banana, lay both halves together on the bottom of a
large saucer.  On the top of the banana put a cone-shaped measure of ice
cream and over this pour a little crushed pineapple, a few powdered nuts, a
spoonful of whipped cream.  Top with a cherry.

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ICE CREAM SODA

     The CONFECTIONERS JOURNAL, November 1906, pg. 94 advertisement, has
"Fred Sanders of Detroit" endorsing a product.  It states:  "Mr. Sanders is
well known as the 'Originator of Ice Cream Soda.'"
     Well known?  I hadn't heard.
    The Cornell MOA database has HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE (see "hot
soda" in column two), August 1872, pg. 344, col. 1:

    Soda-water with cream sirups when well iced as above has been fanicfully
named "ice-cream soda."

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HOT SODA

     The term "hot soda" was used a lot in the CONFECTIONERS JOURNAL.
      From the CONFECTIONERS JOURNAL, pg. 85, col. 1:

     _Hot Soda_
     "Hot Soda" is not, as the name might seem to imply, hot soda water, but
simply hot coffee, bouillon, lemonade, etc., served at the soda counter.

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ROCKY ROAD ICE CREAM (continued); CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER ICE CREAM

"I love Rocky Road."
--Weird Al Yankovic

     Mariani's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK also has a 1938
citation, but from a different source.  The date is handwritten on this
pamphlet.
     From HOW TO MAKE RENNET-CUSTARDS AND ICE CREAM, "The 'Junket' Folks,"
Hansen's Laboratory, Inc., Little Falls, NY, 1938, pg. 24, col. 1:

     _ROCKY ROAD ICE CREAM_
See directions on page 22 for ice cream.  After beating the cream, milk, and
Chocolate "Junket" Rennet Mix together, add 1/2 cup chopped nuts and 8
chopped marshmallows.  Mix well and freeze.

     Much before Reese's Peanut Butter Cup ice cream is this from column two:

     _CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER ICE CREAM_
     Warm 1/2 cup of the milk and dissolve 2 teaspoons of peanut butter in
it.  Cool and add to the rest of the milk.  Proceed according to directions
on page 22 for automatic refrigerator ice cream, using Chocolate "Junket"
Rennet Mix.