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edenfalling) wrote2011-04-03 02:59 am
edenfalling) wrote2011-04-03 02:59 am
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on ice cream sundaes, yet again (please forgive me, it's a local pride thing)
I love Google: today their header graphic is a picture of an ice cream sundae (the two scoops are serving as the two Os in the site name), in celebration of, and I quote, the "119th Anniversary of the First Documented Ice Cream Sundae."
Which would be Ithaca, on Sunday, April 3, 1892.
:-D
The Google logo designers are hedging their bets, of course, by saying first "documented" sundae rather than flat-out first sundae -- not that Two Rivers, Wisconsin needs appeasing, because they are wrong in their claims. But anyway, Ithaca really is the only town that has proof of a sundae's invention at the time we say it was invented. There is a local newspaper advertisement for a cherry sundae on April 5, 1892. None of the other places have anything other than hearsay for decades after their claims. We have documentary proof within three days. Take that!
Which would be Ithaca, on Sunday, April 3, 1892.
:-D
The Google logo designers are hedging their bets, of course, by saying first "documented" sundae rather than flat-out first sundae -- not that Two Rivers, Wisconsin needs appeasing, because they are wrong in their claims. But anyway, Ithaca really is the only town that has proof of a sundae's invention at the time we say it was invented. There is a local newspaper advertisement for a cherry sundae on April 5, 1892. None of the other places have anything other than hearsay for decades after their claims. We have documentary proof within three days. Take that!