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Soda fountain owner, Ed Berners of Two Rivers, Wisconsin is reputed to have invented the first ice cream sundae in 1881.
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Chester Platt was indeed selling ice cream in the early 1890s and had the necessary supplies on hand to create the first sundae.
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The town of Evanston, Illinois was one of the first towns to pass such a law around the year 1890.
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Ice cream sundae soon became the weekend semi-official soda fountain confection in the beginning of the 1900s and quickly gained popularity.
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Chester Platt bought a business and ran it through the 1920s.
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It was founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont, and operates globally as a subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever.
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The city even sang about it in a sundae fight song delivered to Ithaca in 2006.
