Ironic watching the 2004 "Born a Donkey" Budweiser ad. Decades before the original Bud Clysedales, they had teams of mules for promotional purposes.
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Cralle invented an ice cream scoop, but not the first. And there's no evidence his design was ever manufactured.

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Yes. The source link cited by footnote in Wiktionary doesn't work anymore, but my original work (on which the now-defunct source relied) is still around.

Anyone interested in more background check out my research here:

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Nashville Tennessean. More on the “cheesecake” origin story:
https://esnpc.blogspot.com/2019/03/shipping-news-and-starlets-revealing.html

Biloxi, Miss., Herald; a 1915 cartoon. More on the origins of the acronym, and on the Army controversy:
https://esnpc.blogspot.com/2018/12/liquor-sugar-and-booze-bring-your-own.html#google_vignette

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Fyi, the book you say traces it to 1902 actually traces the phrase to 1906. The Fuller Building was built in 1902, but the author traces the expression to 1906.

The reference you believe was published in 1900 was published in 1920. Bad metadata.
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Invented in 1876, in Philadelphia, by the same man who invented the stapler. Later became known as oyster pails, but were also used for ice cream and other products. Used for Chinese takeout as early as 1914.
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