what would you say is the best flavor of ice cream is it chocolate vanilla or plague well if you happen to be eating this sweet treat in the 1800s that last one might be a real option see ice cream came to the UK with Italian immigrants who adapted gelato to local tastes then soon after it was a summertime staple but how it was sold was a little different these Cheap Eats were served on a penny lick a stamped glass that held a single mouthful of ice cream and after you licked a glass clean they took
it back put another scoop on it and gave it to somebody else yikes I think that's a bit unsanitary well London officials thought so too and banned the penny Lake in 1898 believing it was helping to spread cholera and tuberculosis most U.S states followed suit after the 1918 flu pandemic but by that time the free market had already provided a solution by the 1890s several italian-owned businesses had sprung up in the US and the UK making edible pastry cups and by the 1904 St Louis World Fair vendors were already selling waffle cones though who invented
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