Pals I had some brown sugar caramel pecan ice cream last night… dayum
For some reason, this made me think of maple ice cream and now I really need to find some maple ice cream.
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Ice cream is my favorite food and go to summer treat. Gf and I just discovered Diamonds in central Ohio, Hispanic originated ice cream place and they are amazing. Right next to a great halal grocer too. Now I just want ice cream. Man oh man.
If anyone is still questioning the moral superiority of ice cream, I present the history of the ice cream sundae (as related on Cooking Channel’s Food: Fact or Fiction this morning. This is what happens when I telework.)
In 1875, there were 2 nationwide phenomena in the United States: ice cream sodas and Blue Laws (Blue Laws were laws banning various vices on Sundays to encourage church-going).
In Evanston (aka Heavenston), IL, the town council banned ice cream sodas in Sundays. After many unhappy years, one particular drug store owner decided he couldn’t afford to go one day a week without his main money maker. So, he decided to exploit a loophole in the law.
The law didn’t ban ice cream, it banned soda water (I guess the bubbles were believed to be too, uh, stimulating.) So this owner made a Sunday Soda, which was an ice cream soda, complete with syrup, but without the soda water. Eventually it just became known as a Sunday.
It caught on at stores across town, with shops adding whipped cream, nuts and cherries. But the council didn’t appreciate having their Blue Laws mocked by the name Sunday. So, the owners mocked them even further, with alternate spellings of “Sunday”, like Sundaye, Sundi, and of course, Sundae.
So, basically, both the sundae and it’s name are an eff-you to people trying to enforce religious practices through law.
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