RONALD REAGAN was famous for liking jelly beans, but he may have also been partial to ice cream, since in 1984 he named July “National Ice Cream Month” and the third Sunday of the month “National Ice Cream Day.”
This week, the Sacramento Bee ran a nearly 3,000-word story titled: “Here’s the Scoop: Everything you need to know about ice cream as its big day approaches.”
….In a section of the piece titled “Great scoops in history,” there was this: “1881 — The owner of a soda fountain in Madison, Wis., placed a scoop of ice cream into a soda glass, topped it with chocolate sauce and called it a sundae because it was sold only on Sundays. The price was 5 cents. A historical marker was erected in 1973 to mark the site.”
(UW’s Stephen Babcock and Babcock Hall are mentioned in this column.)