Do you like ice cream sundaes? You can thank this stupid law for their existence.

Do you like ice cream sundaes? You can thank this stupid law for their existence.

The sundae is a sweet ice cream dessert. It typically consists of one or more scoops of ice cream topped with sauce or syrup, and in some cases other toppings including sprinkles, whipped cream, maraschino cherries, or other fruits (e.g., Bananas and pineapple in a banana split.).

Evanston was one of the first locations to pass a blue law against selling ice cream sodas in 1890.

Some ingenious confectioners and drug store operators, obeying the law, served ice cream with the syrup of your choice without the soda. Thereby complying with the law… This sodaless soda was the Sunday soda.

As sales of the dessert continued on Mondays, local leaders then objected to naming the dish after the Sabbath, so the spelling of the name was changed to sundae.

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