{"id":212,"date":"2006-11-22T08:10:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T13:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/212-the-worlds-first-ice-cream-cone"},"modified":"2013-01-19T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T21:54:11","slug":"the-worlds-first-ice-cream-cone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/212-the-worlds-first-ice-cream-cone\/","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s First Ice Cream Cone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/ice-cream.jpg\" alt=\"Ice Cream\" height=\"240\" style=\"width: 160px; height: 240px\" title=\"Ice Cream\" \/>Who ever says that the U.S. isn&#8217;t a place famous for introducing any type of food to the world never heard of the ice cream cone. Anyone who attended the World&#8217;s Fair in St. Louis Missouri in 1904 witnessed something historical &#8230; if they sampled an ice cream cone.<\/p>\n<p>In 1904 vendors scrambled to meet demand, the crowds were enormous and one ice cream vendor plum ran out of cups. A vendor next door was selling waffles, and thus necessity is the Mother of invention.<\/p>\n<p>The nifty vendor ran next door for some waffles to put ice cream in and people loved it. The &#8216;Waffle Cone&#8217; earned its name.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBut there is some controversy.<\/p>\n<p>There are mentions of the first edible ice cream cone in D\u00c3\u00bcsseldorf, Germany in the 1800&#8217;s but no substantial proof. Then on the other hand St. Louis did experience tremendous growth in the late 1800&#8217;s when lots of German and Italian settlers came to town.<\/p>\n<p>While no one is sure of the name of the man who served up the first ice cream at the World&#8217;s Fair in St. Louis, no one argues that he could&#8217;ve been German.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who ever says that the U.S. isn&#8217;t a place famous for introducing any type of food to the world never heard of the ice cream cone. Anyone who attended the World&#8217;s Fair in St. Louis Missouri in 1904 witnessed something historical &#8230; if they sampled an ice cream cone. In 1904 vendors scrambled to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}