How have ice cream cones become popular over the years?

For over a century, Americans have been enjoying ice cream on a cone. ... The cone cooled in a few seconds, the vendor put some ice cream in it, the customers were happy and the cone was on its way to becoming the great American institution ... At the same time, Hamwi was busy with the Cornucopia Waffle Company. read more

1850s – The first true ice cream cone, used exclusively for ice cream only, appears to have been the invention of the Italian immigrants living in the Manchester, England area during the inter-war period in the middle 1800s. read more