July 8th, 1881

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1881 Edward Berner, a druggist in Two Rivers, WI poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. Until this date chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas. Druggists and soda-jerks everywhere told him that the human taste-buds wouldn’t be able to handle the intense flavor and that he might cause the first case of extreme flavor induced sensory brain shutdown, but Mr. Berner followed his dream and young Billy Hamilton of Two Rivers Wisconsin ate and enjoyed the first vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup drizzled over its top. Young Mr. Hamilton survived and the rest was ice cream history.

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About Joel Byers

Born in North Georgia and educated at some very fine public institutions. Real education started after graduating from college and then getting married and raising two boys. Has the ability to see the funny and absurd in most things and will always remark on it, even if it means getting the stink-eye from his victims.
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