Ice Cream Sunday (Atlanta, 1895?)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/7/2006 01:04 AM, you wrote:
>The story about the "ice cream sundae" in Sunday's NY Times (below) is  old
>news to me. However, does anyone think that the
>Atlanta Constitution's  various
>"ice cream Sunday" 1895 ads are for sundaes (see below, from
>Newspaperarchive)?

No.  (I wouldn't expect to buy sundaes by the half gallon.)

Joel

>...
>_http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/nyregion/06sundae.html?_r=1&oref=slogin_
>(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/nyregion/06sundae.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)
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>The dispute dates back decades. The two places have traded occasional letters
>  and barbs since at least the 1970s.
> Wisconsinites believe Edward C. Berners,
>the  owner of a downtown soda fountain, created the first sundae in 1881
>after a  customer asked him to spoon a little
>chocolate sauce over ice cream. The
>result  was so delicious, Mr. Berners began
>selling the dessert for 5 cents on
>Sundays,  according to the story told there.
>However, Ithacans claim the first sundae was not invented until 1892, when a
>local proprietor, Chester Platt, served his local priest vanilla ice cream
>covered in cherry syrup with a dark candied
>cherry on top. The priest suggested
>  the dessert be named after the day, Sunday —
> although the spelling  was later
>  changed out of fear some would find it offensive.
>A resident of Two Rivers, Jerry Schubring, 64, a retired accountant, says the
>  Ithaca story is nonsense. “Everybody knows Two Rivers invented it,” he
>said.  “That’s why we’re all so fat here. We eat a lot of them.”
>Two Rivers has a historical marker in one of its parks telling the sundae
>story. That is proof enough, residents said.
>“I think (Ithacans) want us to send
>  them some cheese,” Mr. Schubring theorized.
>Ithacans have something they think is better— an
>1892 newspaper adveertisement
>  for a new “cherry sunday.” “We have the
> historical documents and they don’
>t,”  Ithaca Mayor Carolyn K. Peterson said.
>...
>...
>...
>28 July 1895, Atlanta Constitution, pg. 19:
>TRY WOHL'S special peach ice cream Sunday, only 65 cents half gallon.
>Telephone 704. Open on Sundays.
>
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