What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Who invented the banana split?

Question

Would you like sprinkles on that?

Answer 1

A man named David Strickler was a drugstore soda jerk in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The city celebrated the 100th anniversary of the invention of the banana split in 2004. Strickler is credited as the inventor of the banana-based triple ice cream sundae in Michael Turback's The Banana Split Book.


My favorite flavor? Strawberry cheesecake!

Answer 2

i like vanilla flavour. According to Ed Marks, ice cream historian and founder of "The Ice Screamers", it's not clear who first invented the Banana Split. It is very possible that the same "invention" occurred in two (or more) places at about the same time.

In Latrobe, PA, they say the banana split was invented by Dr. David Strickler, who, at the time, was a 23 year-old working at Tassell Pharmacy. Much pride is displayed in Latrobe over the creation of the banana split. There are banana buttons and T-shirts. There will be even more fanfare this year with special celebrations taking place, and commemorative pins for sale. Dave Strickler became a pharmacist and optician, and purchased the pharmacy which was renamed "Stricklers." Dr. Dave's banana splits were a big hit with the students from nearby Saint Vincent College and the word spread. According to his daughter, her dad "was always the great experimenter" and he even originated the first banana split dish: "There were no dishes for such a concoction, so he drew up his own" and a company in nearby Grapeville produced it.

The banana split was also showcased at the Boston convention of the National Association of Retail Druggists in 1905. Stinson Thomas, chief dispenser at Butler's Department Store in Boston promoted the banana split there.

According to an article about the convention in The Soda Fountain magazine, "among all the beverages dispensed here, none was more novel with the ladies than the banana split." The magazine also quotes Mr. Thomas: "My trade here is always looking for something new and so, one day it occurred to me that I might prepare a popular fountain beverage with a banana. I sent my boy out to buy half a dozen bananas, and when he returned I cut off the ends of a banana, split it open, put a portion of ice cream on top and a spoonful of crushed strawberries. It certainly looked swell and I believed that the public would like it." As with most new creations though, there was some trial and error. "At first we left the peel on the banana in the plate, but some time ago we began removing it altogether. We found that the ladies preferred to have the peel removed."

Who first invented the Banana Split? We will probably never know for sure, but it doesn't really matter. You can still get banana splits, with your choice of ice cream and toppings, right here at Brick Farm Ice Cream.

Answer 3

I like Cookies and Cream and I like Banana Splits too!
Just A Little Sprinkles and can I have Caramel Please lol

A man named David Strickler was a drugstore soda jerk in Latrobe, Pennsylvania invented the banana split. The city celebrated the 100th anniversary of the invention of the banana split in 2004.

Whats your fave icecream?
YUM! this question is making me what some icecream now! :)

Answer 4

My favorite is cookies and cream
Or forbidden Chocolate......no sprinkles

Here's who invented the banana split....

A man named David Strickler was a drugstore soda jerk in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The city celebrated the 100th anniversary of the invention of the banana split in 2004. Strickler is credited as the inventor of the banana-based triple ice cream sundae in Michael Turback's The Banana Split Book.

A year or two later, historians say, a Boston ice cream entrepreneur came up with the same sundae--with one minor flaw. He served his banana splits with the bananas unpeeled until he discovered that ladies preferred them peeled.

Town fathers in Wilmington, Ohio, claim their city, southeast of Dayton, is the birthplace of the popular treat. They say 1907 was the year and restaurant owner Ernest Hazard was the man. The town commemorates the event each June with a Banana Split Festival.

According to town lore, Hazard wanted to attract fickle students from Wilmington College during the slow days of winter. He staged an employee contest to come up with a new ice cream dish. When none of his workers was up to the task, he split a banana lengthwise, threw it into an elongated dish and created his own dessert.

Walgreen's is credited with spreading the popularity of the banana split. Charles Walgreen adopted the banana split as the signature dessert in the chain of drugstores he founded in Chicago.

Answer 5

I like vanilla with chocolate sauce or hot fudge (no nuts or sprinkles) whip cream is always good (no cherry either).
Other good ones are: Oreo, cotton candy, tin roof sundae.
I don't know who invented the banana split.

Answer 6

Mint Chocolate Chip!!

No sprinkles

Answer 7

My very favourite could could desire to be Bruster's Chocolate Turtle. it is chocolate ice cream with caramel and pecans in it. Yum!! a close-by custard save makes a different frozen custard daily and that they make "Coconut Chip". it is vanilla ice cream with coconut and chocolate shavings in it. Tastes in basic terms like a Mounds candy bar. i think of i ought to enormously plenty eat something crowned with caramel or warm fudge!! super, now i'm yearning ice cream and that i'm at artwork. wager i will could desire to attend till this night.

Answer 8

NYC Cheesecake

Answer 9

chocolate chip ice cream topped with chopped nuts!

Answer 10

Toasted Almond, A man named David Strickler, No Thanks on the sprinkles...