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ice cream that dodged Sunday's strict laws by ditching the seltzer and the spelling.
means Sundaes are scoops of ice cream crowned with sweet sauces, fruit, nuts, and whipped cream, served in a dish rather than as a fizzy drink.
from The word is almost certainly a respelled 'Sunday,' and the most-told American story is that soda-fountain owners, facing blue laws or temperance pressure against selling carbonated 'soda water' on Sundays, served the syrup-and-ice-cream part without the fizz — then changed the spelling to 'sundae' to avoid stamping the Sabbath's name on a dessert. Several towns (Two Rivers, Wisconsin and Ithaca, New York among them) claim to be its birthplace, and the exact who-and-when is genuinely disputed; what's solid is that the term surfaced in late-19th-century America and that the odd '-ae' ending is a deliberate dodge of the day's spelling.
- origin myth
- Born when soda fountains banned sodas on Sundays
- the misspelling
- Spelled 'sundae' to avoid offending the Sabbath
- cherry on top
- Maraschino cherries are bleached, then dyed and resoaked
- banana split
- Invented by a 23-year-old pharmacy apprentice in 1904
- record holder
- Largest ever weighed over 24 tons in Canada
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banana split — three-scoop sundae with banana, created in latrobe, pennsylvania in 1904
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