Sharon's Fascinating Facts

August 03, 2010

Q.  In which city did the ice-cream cone first become popular?

A.  In St. Louis in 1904, at the St. Louis World’s Fair.

It was sold at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.  A waffle was twisted into a cone and filled with ice cream.  Story goes, that an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and bought a batch of waffles from a waffle vendor.  He rolled the waffles into cones and sold the ice cream in the waffle cones.

Information found in Scholastic Book of Firsts

Sharon G.