Page 27 - HP3A 008 The St. Louis World's Fair

Another special treat, believed to rolled his waffles into a cone shape

actually have been invented at the to serve the ice cream in. Soon after,

fair was the waffle cone. There were even other ice cream vendors at

many ice cream stands at the fair and the fair purchased the cone. Due to

the treat was very popular. A young the success and popularity of the

vendor named Arnold Fomachou, invention, in 1910 Hamwi went on to

made so many sales of his ice cream, create the Missouri Cone Company.

he soon ran out of dishes to sell the

treat in. As luck would have it, next Although some of these new and

to Fomachou, there was another exciting foods were actually invented

stall where a vendor named Ernest a few years before the event, it

Hamwi, was selling wafer-thin, was at the World's Fair that they

sugary waffle treats called zalabia. became widely known as they were

Coming to Fomachou's aid, Hamwi introduced to and enjoyed by a