free pts to one that answers correctly- why is the famous icecream with topping and cherry called a Sunday?

Question

i found the answer interesting, can u guess correctly?
can u also guess which city it was credited for naming it first?

Answer 1

The year was 1892. Ithaca, New York, was dotted with local drug stores, where many a nickel was spent for a dish of ice cream. After Sunday services at the Unitarian Church, Reverend John M. Scott visited the Platt & Colt Pharmacy in downtown Ithaca, New York, for his usual dish of vanilla ice cream -- but on one fateful day, history was altered forever. That day, instead of plain vanilla for the Reverend, Chester Platt dipped his scoop of ice cream into a champagne saucer, poured cherry syrup over the top, and dressed it with a candied cherry. As the two men pondered over what to call the delightful new concoction, Scott proposed that it be named after the day on which it was invented: Cherry Sunday!
None other than H. L. Mencken has disagreed with this account. He claimed that the first Ice Cream Sundae appeared in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Or was it Manitowoc, Wisconsin? He reported that a customer named George Hallauer urged Edward C. Berners, owner of a Two Rivers ice cream parlor, to top a dish of ice cream with the chocolate sauce he used for ice cream sodas. Berners warned that it would ruin the ice cream, but Hallauer ordered it anyway. The concoction caught on, but was offered only as a Sunday special. One weekday, a ten-year-old girl requested a dish of ice cream "with that stuff on top," pleading to "pretend it was Sunday."

But a fellow by the name of George Giffy operated a competing soda fountain in the nearby town of Manitowoc. Giffy's best seller was plain vanilla ice cream, and when a customer pleaded for him to pour chocolate syrup, normally reserved for chocolate sodas, over a nickel portion of vanilla, Giffy realized he would have to charge an extra five cents to insure a profit. According to Mencken, the addition of syrup made the new treat too expensive to eat, except perhaps once a week (on Sunday, of course) when dressed-up church-goers filled his place.

Bosh! His story about the Wisconsin rivals were taken seriously, but of course Mencken made the whole thing up. He later claimed that his motive for creating the hoax was "simply to have some harmless fun," but historians believe he was actually proving that the American public would believe any absurdity, as long as it appealed to their imaginations.

More than a few others say, in effect, not so fast. Buffalo, New York, has its own delusion of historical grandeur. Their Hometown legend traces back to Stoddard Brothers, the first drugstore to install a soda fountain in Buffalo, selling ice cream sodas for a nickel - that is, until the day the store ran out of soda water. Uncle Charley Stoddard needed to dream up a new dish in a hurry, so he instructed his clerks to serve two scoops of ice cream drenched with fruit syrup. Charley's idea stuck, and so did the mythology.

Norfolk, Virginia, holds dear to its own unverifiable claim. A city ordinance not only prohibited the consumption of alcohol, but legislated against the growing “Sunday Soda Menace.” To circumvent the blue law, it is purported that a local fountain owner added a few berries, fruit syrup and ice cream to an ice cream soda glass, but held off on the fizzy water. The merchant would not be denied. With a snip of legal subterfuge, his “dry” soda became an Ice Cream Sundae.

The primacy of the Ice Cream Sundae in Plainfield, Illinois, is dubious. The story afloat is that a Plainfield druggist created a new dessert in response to the urgings of patrons. Dressing a dish of ice cream with syrup, he decided to call it the "Sonntag" after his surname. Sonntag means Sunday in German, and you already know the rest.

The cradle of the Ice Cream Sundae? An entymologist might trace the dessert to Evanston, Illinois, Chicago's Godly neighbor to the north. "Heavenston," as temperance leader Frances Willard called it, was a rather “Methodist-minded” place, whose zealous clergy had already banned saloons from their town. Sunday was a holy day, not a day for idle pleasure. Children's swings were chained up, and even the reading of books was prohibited, unless, of course, it was the Holy Bible. Those hedonistic “intoxicants” served in soda fountains, the ones loaded with sugar -- and all those bubbles -- could bring out the devil in an unsuspecting soul. By the time word spread from Ithaca about the newborn temptation, and this one (God forbid!) named after the Lord's Day, all hell broke loose. Religious leaders took to the pulpits. They struck fear in the hearts of local retailers, outlawing the sale of ice cream sodas, and forcing a change in the spelling of “Sunday” to “Sundae.”

It is amusing to find folks from Evanston shocked, shocked at the notion that the Ice Cream Sundae did not originate with them. The Evanston Review complained: "While Ithaca may have had the Sundae as early as 1897 (sic), as the Chamber of Commerce there claims, it obviously got there by two means. Either some Northwestern student brought it Home with him or a Cornell student from Evanston took it there." But the Evanstonians have never come up with a shred of proof to support their claim.

Stories have been told many times, in many places, and with varying degrees of believability. A few of the places continue spinning their tales today, and the Sundae flapdoodle may never be settled. What is known for sure is that Ithaca, New York, has the earliest documentation to substantiate its claim as the birthplace of the great American dessert -- an advertisement placed by Chester Platt in the Ithaca Daily Journal on April 6, 1892.

Platt & Colt Pharmacy
State Street, Ithaca, NY


First advertisement
Ithaca Daily Journal,
April 6, 1892

Answer 2

There is currently a heated debate between Ithaca and Two Rivers over which city has the right to claim the title "birthplace of the ice cream sundae." Ithaca mayor Carolyn K. Peterson has received over 30 postcards since June 27, 2006 from Two Rivers residents claiming that their city is the birthplace of the sundae. The postcards were in response to Peterson's official proclamation June 26th at Purity Ice Cream that Ithaca had proof to call the sundae its own. Ithaca retaliated with an ad called "Got Proof?" in the Two Rivers newspaper.

Two Rivers' claim is based on the story of George Hallauer asking Edward C. Berner, the owner of Berner's Soda Fountain, to drizzle chocolate syrup over ice cream in 1881. Berner eventually did and wound up selling the treat for a nickel, originally only on Sundays, but later every day. According to this story, the spelling changed when a glass salesman ordered canoe-shaped dishes. When Berner died in 1939, the Chicago Tribune headlined his obituary "Man Who Made First Ice Cream Sundae Is Dead."

Supporting Ithaca's claim, Gretchen Sachse of Tompkins County, New York and the DeWitt Historical Society provides a differing account of how the sundae came to be: One hot Sunday afternoon in 1891 in Ithaca, John M. Scott, a Unitarian Church pastor, and Chester Platt, Platt & Colt Pharmacy partner, created the first known sundae. Mr. Platt covered dishes of ice cream with syrup and candied cherries on a whim. The Platt & Colt soda fountain featured sundaes thereafter. The first documented advertisement for a "Cherry Sunday" was placed in the Ithaca Daily Journal in 1892 by Chester Platt. The spelling "sundae" is believed to have originated in Evanston, Illinois as a less blasphemous name for the ice cream treat some time after the "Sunday" spelling was popularized in Ithaca.

Answer 3

The gave it the name Sundae or Sundae.. or Sundhi ...because people thought it was to sacrilegious to each such things on a Sunday...ice cream and soda..

I heard it was Wisconsin.. not sure though.

Answer 4

some students at cornell university in ithaca n.y made a dish of ice cream with a cherry on top and poured cherry syrup all over it.

Answer 5

One to three scoops of ice cream, topped with one or more sweet sauces and various other ingredients including fruit, nuts and whipped cream. The sundae is said to have originated in the late 19th century because moralists decried the consumption of carbonated soda on Sunday . . . Even in the popular weekend treat, ice-cream sodas. The noncorruptive "dry" version of that treat was ice cream topped with syrup and named after the day on which soda was banned. The spelling of this frozen confection was changed to "sundae" so as not to be sacrilegious. Its history is in dispute, with a number of cities claiming to be the birthplace of the treat. Various American localities claim the invention of ice cream topped with syrup. The newspaperman H. L. Mencken reported that the sundae was invented in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, although some reports say he later said this was a hoax[citation needed]. Other sources state that the sundae originated in Plainfield, Illinois; Evanston, Illinois; New York City; New Orleans, Louisiana; Cleveland, Ohio; Buffalo, New York; or Ithaca, New York.There is currently a heated debate between Ithaca and Two Rivers over which city has the right to claim the title "birthplace of the ice cream sundae." Ithaca mayor Carolyn K. Peterson has received over 30 postcards since June 27, 2006 from Two Rivers residents claiming that their city is the birthplace of the sundae. The postcards were in response to Peterson's official proclamation June 26th at Purity Ice Cream that Ithaca had proof to call the sundae its own.[1] Ithaca retaliated with an ad called "Got Proof?" in the Two Rivers newspaper.Two Rivers' claim is based on the story of George Hallauer asking Edward C. Berner, the owner of Berner's Soda Fountain, to drizzle chocolate syrup over ice cream in 1881[citation needed]. Berner eventually did and wound up selling the treat for a nickel, originally only on Sundays, but later every day. According to this story, the spelling changed when a glass salesman ordered canoe-shaped dishes. When Berner died in 1939, the Chicago Tribune headlined his obituary "Man Who Made First Ice Cream Sundae Is Dead."Supporting Ithaca's claim, Gretchen Sachse of Tompkins County, New York and the DeWitt Historical Society provides a differing account of how the sundae came to be: One hot Sunday afternoon in 1891 in Ithaca, John M. Scott, a Unitarian Church pastor, and Chester Platt, Platt & Colt Pharmacy partner, created the first known sundae[citation needed]. Mr. Platt covered dishes of ice cream with syrup and candied cherries on a whim. The Platt & Colt soda fountain featured sundaes thereafter. The first documented advertisement for a "Cherry Sunday" was placed in the Ithaca Daily Journal in 1892 by Chester Platt. The spelling "sundae" is believed to have originated in Evanston, Illinois as a less blasphemous name for the ice cream treat some time after the "Sunday" spelling was popularized in Ithaca.For the price of 1000 U.S. dollars, the most expensive ice cream sundae is the Serendipity Golden Opulence Sundae, sold by the famous Serendipity 3 restaurant in New York City[2]. The dessert consists of five scoops of Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla, covered in 23-carat edible gold leaf, rare Amedei Porceleana and Chuao chocolate, American Golden caviar, passion fruit, orange, Armagnac, candied fruits from Paris, Marzipan cherries, and decorated with real gold dragets. The sundae is served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet with an 18-karat gold spoon.
Dansk (Danish)
n. - flødeis med frugt eller sovs

Nederlands (Dutch)
vruchtenijsje

Français (French)
n. - coupe glacée, sundae

Deutsch (German)
n. - Eisbecher

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - παγωτό φρούτων με σιρόπι

Italiano (Italian)
gelato ai canditi

Português (Portuguese)
n. - sundae (m)

Русский (Russian)
пломбир, с сиропом, орехами, фруктами

Español (Spanish)
n. - helado con fruta y nueces

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - glasscoupe m garnering


中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
圣代

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 聖代

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 선디(과일, 시럽 등으로 모양을 낸 아이스크림)

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - サンデー

Answer 6

I guess because people had leisure time on sundays, it being a holiday, and on this day they could enjoy it by eating it leisurely

Answer 7

umm was it made on a sunday or maby a sunny day

Answer 8

it isn't, it's called a sundae

Answer 9

its a Sundae...........dont know why its called that but its delicious.