Editing Sundae (section)

===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/>