Who Invented Sundaes? -Boy Do They Taste Good

Among the countless tales about the invention of the sundae, a frequent theme is that the dish arose in contravention with so-called blue regulations against Sunday consumption of either ice cream desserts or ice cream soda. The religious regulations are said to have motivated druggists to to make a substitute for these favored treats for consumption on Sunday. nnAccording to one history, the spelling changed when a glass salesman ordered canoe-shaped dishes and another is that the spelling was changed to sundae to avoid offending religious conventions.nnVarious American localities including Two Rivers, Plainfield, Evanston, New Orleans, Louisiana; Ithaca, Cleveland, and Buffalo have claimed to be the birthplace of the ice cream sundae. Two Rivers' claim is dependent on the story of George Hallauer asking Edward C Berners, the owner of Berners' Soda Fountain, to drizzle chocolate syrup over ice cream in 1881. Berners eventually did and wound up offering the treat for a nickel on Sunday, but afterwards every day. When Berners died in 1939, the Chicago Tribune headlined his obituary