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Read our big scoop: Ice-cream cones, the ingenious invention of American immigrants

Posted 8/19/26

Ice cream was a rare and expensive treat for centuries because of the difficulty of storing ice. That changed in the 1800s, when inventions like mechanical refrigeration made ice cream cheaper and …

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