Editing Sundae (section)

==Contested origins==
Various localities have claimed to be the birthplace of the ice cream sundae, including [[Plainfield, Illinois]]; [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]; [[Cleveland, Ohio]]; and [[New York City]]. According to What's Cooking America, the biggest rivalry (referred to as the "Sundae War") to claim the invention of the ice cream sundae is between [[Two Rivers, Wisconsin]], and [[Ithaca, New York]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/IceCream/Sundae.htm|title=History of Ice Cream Sundae|date=15 May 2015 }}</ref>

===Two Rivers, Wisconsin, in 1881===
[[File:Wisconsin Historical Marker ice cream sundae.jpg|thumb|Wisconsin Historical Marker detailing Two Rivers as the locale of the invention of the ice cream sundae – Central Park, [[Two Rivers, Wisconsin]]]]
[[Two Rivers, Wisconsin|Two Rivers]]' claim is based on the story of George Hallauer asking Edward C. Berners, the owner of Berners' Soda Fountain, to drizzle chocolate syrup over ice cream in 1881. Berners 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 Berners died in 1939, the ''Chicago Tribune'' headlined his obituary "Man Who Made First Ice Cream Sundae Is Dead".<ref name="obit">{{cite news | title = Man Who Made First Ice Cream Sundae Is Dead | work = [[Chicago Daily Tribune]] | pages = 1  | date =July 2, 1939 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tworiverseconomicdevelopment.org/relocation/history-sundae.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050501071945/http://www.tworiverseconomicdevelopment.org/relocation/history-sundae.htm|archive-date=1 May 2005 |title= Two Rivers - The Real Birthplace of the Ice Cream Sundae |publisher= Two Rivers Economic Development |access-date=2007-06-26}}</ref>

Residents of Two Rivers have contested the claims of other cities to the right to claim the title "birthplace of the ice cream sundae". When [[Ithaca, New York]]'s mayor [[Carolyn K. Peterson]] proclaimed a day to celebrate her city as the birthplace of the sundae, she received postcards from Two Rivers' citizens reiterating that town's claim.<ref name=war>{{cite news |author=Laura Zaichkin |title=Sundae wars continue between Ithaca and Two Rivers |work=[[Ithaca Journal]] |date=June 30, 2006 }}</ref> Berners would have only been 16 or 17 in 1881, so it is therefore "improbable" that he would have owned an ice cream shop in that year. They{{who|date=February 2025}} also state that the obituary dates Berners' first sundae to 1899 rather than 1881.<ref name=visitithaca>{{cite web|url=http://www.visitithaca.com/media-services/birthplace-of-the-sundae.html|title=Documenting Ithaca New York as the Home of the Ice Cream Sundae|work=Ithaca Convention & Visitors Bureau|year=2007|access-date=2007-08-20|archive-date=2009-10-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001180255/http://www.visitithaca.com/Media-Services/Birthplace-of-the-Sundae.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Buffalo, New York, in 1889===
[[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]]'s Stoddart Bros. Drug Store advertised serving up ice cream sodas garnished with fruit syrup and whipped cream in the pages of The Buffalo Evening News and the Buffalo Courier as early as 1889.<ref>{{cite web | author=Steve Cichon | url=http://buffalonews.com/2016/12/13/torn-tuesday-buffalo-home-first-ice-cream-sundae | title=Is Buffalo the home of the ice cream sundae? | publisher=The Buffalo News | date=Dec 13, 2016 }}</ref>

===Evanston, Illinois, in 1890===
[[Evanston, Illinois|Evanston]] was one of the first locations to pass a [[blue law]] against selling ice cream sodas in 1890. "Some ingenious confectioners and drug store operators [in Evanston]... obeying the law, served ice cream with the syrup of your choice without the soda [on Sundays]. Thereby complying with the law...  This sodaless soda was the Sunday soda."<ref name=heavenston/> As sales of the dessert continued on Mondays, local [[Methodist]] leaders then objected to naming the dish after the Sabbath, so the spelling of the name was changed to sundae.<ref>{{cite news |title=The origin of ice-cream |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/tech/ice-cream/newsid_3634000/3634978.stm|work=[[BBC]] |date= 2004-09-07|access-date= 2010-01-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.idfa.org/news-views/media-kits/ice-cream/the-history-of-ice-cream | title=The History of Ice Cream | publisher=International Dairy Foods Association | date=2013 | access-date=3 July 2014}}</ref>

===Ithaca, New York, in 1892===
[[File:LgIthacaDailyJournal.gif|thumb|''Ithaca Daily Journal'', May 28, 1892]]
Supporting [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]]{{'}}s claim to be "the birthplace of the ice cream sundae", researchers at The History Center in [[Tompkins County, New York]], provide an account of how the sundae came to be: On Sunday, April 3, 1892, in Ithaca, John M. Scott, a Unitarian Church minister, and [[Chester Platt]], co-owner of Platt & Colt Pharmacy, created the first historically documented sundae.<ref name=visitithaca/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.icecreamsundae.com/?action=history  |title=Ithaca's Gift to the World |access-date=2011-11-27}}</ref> Platt covered dishes of ice cream with cherry syrup and candied cherries on a whim. The men named the dish "Cherry Sunday" in honor of the day it was created. The oldest-known written evidence of a sundae is Platt & Colt's newspaper ad for a "Cherry Sunday" placed in the ''Ithaca Daily Journal'' on April 5, 1892. By May 1892, the Platt & Colt soda fountain also served "Strawberry Sundays" and later, "Chocolate Sundays".

Platt & Colt's "Sundays" grew so popular that by 1894, Chester Platt attempted to trademark the term ice cream "Sunday".<ref name=visitithaca/>

===Plainfield, Illinois===
[[Plainfield, Illinois]], has also claimed to be the home of the first ice cream sundae. A local belief is that a Plainfield druggist named Mr. Sonntag created the dish "after the urgings of patrons to serve something different." He named it the "sonntag" after himself, and since ''Sonntag'' is the German word for Sunday, the name was translated to Sunday, and later was spelled sundae.<ref name=plainfield>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.plainfield-il.org/visiting/villagehistory.php 
 |title=Village of Plainfield Historical Information Directory 
 |access-date=2011-04-03 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105113122/http://plainfield-il.org/visiting/villagehistory.php 
 |archive-date=2011-01-05 
}}</ref> Charles Sonntag established himself as a pharmacist after graduating from pharmacy school in 1890. He worked for several years under the employ of two local druggists, Dr. David W. Jump and F. R. Tobias. Sonntag established his own pharmacy (as early as 1893 and no later than 1895) in a building constructed in the months following a December 1891 fire that devastated one side of the town's business district. His store advertised "Sonntag's Famous Soda" and was, likely, the first soda fountain in the Village of Plainfield.{{citation needed|date=July 2012}}