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[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

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[Lee Stewart]

Can’t imagine a world without buffalo wings? You only have to look back 60 years, as the accidental invention of deep-fried spicy wings served with celery and blue cheese dip can be almost indisputably traced to The Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, in 1964. Teresa Bellissimo had meant to order chicken necks, but instead received a shipment of wings and so thought up a new dish to avoid wasting them.

[Lee Stewart]

The most recognized story of the ice cream float dates back to the late 19th century when Robert Green, owner of a soda shop in Philadelphia, would use carbonated water, syrup and cream to make drinks. However, one day he ran out of cream and used ice cream instead. There are a few contenders to this story, including George Guy, one of Robert Green’s own employees who claims he was the inventor.

[Lee Stewart]

Everyone's favorite childhood summertime frozen treat was created by accident in Kansas City Missouri in the late 1950s, by shop owner Omar Knedlik whose soda fountain kept breaking down. In order to keep his sodas chilled, he put them in the freezer so when he served them they were frozen and slushy. Customers loved it, coming back to specially request "those pops that were in a little bit longer."

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It was a moment of thinking-on-your-feet that led to the invention of the ice cream cone, which some might go as far as saying ice cream is incomplete without. It was at the St. Louis World’s Fair, in Missouri, in 1904, when Syrian concessionaire Ernest Hamwi decided to roll up some zalabia, which are crisp, waffle-like pastries, to help out a neighboring ice cream vendor who ran out of bowls.

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In Massachusetts, in the 1930s, restaurant-owner Mrs Wakefield is said to have been baking cookies, and discovered she'd ran out of an ingredient so substituted in Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate. The cookies were thought to be so delicious, Nestlé provided Ruth with a lifetime supply of chocolate in exchange for being able to print the recipe on its packet.

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The incredibly popular chip was invented quite inadvertently, the salty snack was first created as a form of revenge. At the Moon’s Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1853, Cornelius Vanderbilt sent his French fries back to the kitchen for being too thick. In outrage, waiter George Crum prepared them again as thin and hard as possible. Although this origin story is sometimes contested, the restaurant is where they gained popularity.

[Lee Stewart]

Pink lemonade has been in American culture for more than a century, but have you ever wondered how it got its pink color? A number of stories linking its invention to traveling circuses in the mid 1800s are circulated. The most realistic of the lot is that it was "invented" by accidentally dropping red-colored cinnamon candies in a traditional vat of the stuff.