Ice Cream(Cone) 1904-almost

[Sam Clements]

As another piece of the puzzle, I found further evidence about the cone
being at first a "waffle," only this attestation, in addition to tracing it
to the 1904 Worlds Fair, comes from a contemporary account in 1904.

>From Ancestry.com, Washington Post(DC), September 4, 1904, page 5, col. 3,
in a Sunday article on the Fair:

<NEW DAINTIES TO EAT>

<One of the latest innovations which is extremely popular is the idea of
selling ice cream encased in a funnel-shaped waffle of delicious taste.  The
novelty of the idea, the delicacy of the article, all add to the popularity
of this combination of ice cream and cake.>

To me this kind of story,  which was written while the fair was still
occurring?, speaks so matter-of-factly about eating ice cream out of such a
cone, that it would put the kibosh on those who claim that it was a
spur-of-the-moment invention from vendors at the fair.

I found the above cite while looking for "Cotton Candy."  The article also
tells about what we(in the US) know as Cotton Candy today, but calls it
"candy cotton."   The archives show that Barry found a 1905 cite for the
"Cotton Candy Machine Co." in the trademark list.

SC