National Ice Cream Sundae Day

A dessert invented to get around a Sunday law, and the law definitively lost.

National Ice Cream Sundae Day on July 8 celebrates one of America's most enduring dessert inventions: scoops of ice cream topped with hot fudge, whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry. The sundae's origin is genuinely contested, with Two Rivers, Wisconsin and Ithaca, New York both claiming it was invente