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Happy National Ice Cream Cone Day!

Once dubbed the "World's Fair Cornucopia," the ice cream cone was created out of necessity at St. Louis' World's Fair in 1904. When one ice cream stand ran out of dishes to serve its goods, nearby waffle maker Ernest Hamwi came to the rescue, rolling out conical waffles that would serve as vessels for ice cream delivery. Temporarily hailed as "cornucopias," the crunchy pastries were later shortened to simply "cones."

Do you take your ice cream in a cone or do you prefer it on its own? Personally, I'm of the set that forever sees the ice cream cone as but a distraction from its precious contents, but I hear the vanilla crunch holds a certain appeal. Place your vote and plead your cause in the comments!

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I'm not sure why something like National Ice Cream Cone Day is celebrated on the very last weekend of the summer, right when the fall is coming around, but I guess it's better late than never. (Update: Ah, it was invented on this date.)

I really don't eat ice cream cones anymore. I eat a fair share of ice cream during the months of June, July, and August, but it's usually cartons of ice cream or Ben & Jerry's or Haagan Daz that I buy at the supermarket and put in a bowl. I guess my ice cream cone days are pretty much over, for the most part. But you have an assignment today: if you have ice cream, it must be in a cone. Whether you get it at an ice cream shop or buy the ice cream and the cones at the supermarket, you must put the ice cream in a cone.

Of course, it's National Ice Cream Cone Day, with no mention of actual ice cream, so maybe you can just buy a box of ice cream cones and eat them plain. I'm partial to the sugar ones myself.