Two vendors had their stands beside each other at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.  One of the vendors was selling a wafer-thin Persian waffle called zalabia.  The other vendor was selling ice cream.  It got so hot during the fair that the vendors ran out of dishes for the Ice cream.  The waffle vendor rolled a waffle into a cone shape he topped it with some of his neighbor’s ice cream.  The ice cream cone was a total hit at the world’s fair.