That name
stuck and eventually became the official name.An ice-cream vendor named Charles Menches was doing such booming business that he ran out of
bowls to put the ice cream in.
The vendor next to Menches was a young
Syrian immigrant named Ernest Hamwi.Hamwi was selling a Syrian treat
called zalabia, a crisp, wafer-like pastry.Hamwi rolled some of his warm pastry into a cone
so that Menches could put ice cream inside.