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In the United States, one of the most familiar ice cream desserts is the ice cream sundae. A typical sundae consists of a dish of ice cream topped with sauce or syrup (often chocolate, caramel, butterscotch, or strawberry-flavored), chopped peanuts, whipped cream, and a maraschino cherry.

Various American localities claim the invention of ice cream topped with syrup. Thomas Jefferson enjoyed maple syrup on a dish of vanilla ice cream, so the invention of the sundae, if not the name, will have to be in the late 18th or early 19th century.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the origin of the term sundae is obscure. The newspaperman H. L. Mencken invented a story that credited the competition of a pair of soda fountain owners in the Wisconsin towns of Two Rivers and ManitowocManitowoc (pronounced Ma-nih-toe-wok') is the county seat of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. The city is located at 044º 5' 47" N 087º 40' 30" W, on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Manitowoc River. According to the 2000 census, Manitowoc had a population o, whose rivalry purportedly gave birth to the ice cream sundae. Mencken later allowed that his tale was something of a hoax. Mencken's take: the sundae came into being in 1881Events January 16- 24 ? Siege of Geok Tepe ? Russian troops under general Skobeleff defeat Turkomans January 25 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company February 5 Phoenix, Arizona is incorporated. February 13 First issu when Ed Berners of Two Rivers decided to make a special dish to sell in his store. Berners charged five cents and only served the dessert on Sundays, hence the name. However, after certain Christian customers complained about using the name of the Lords day to advertise ice-cream, he changed the spelling to Sundae. It is also reported that the first ice cream sundae may have originated in PlainfieldPlainfield is a village located in Will County, Illinois. Plainfield is the oldest community in Will County. Located within the village are neo-Gothic churches, upright wing cottages, a school built in 1847, and a number of late-19th-century homes. Accord, IllinoisIllinois is a state in the United States named after the Illiniwek Indian tribe, which used to live there. The capital of Illinois is Springfield and the U. postal abbreviation for the state is IL . Illinois is pronounced ill-len-NOY, or jokingly, ill-len, or that it was invented to circumvent " blue lawA blue law in the United States and Canada, is a law restricting activities or sales of goods on Sunday, to accommodate the Christian " sabbath. The term blue law was first used by Reverend Samuel Peters in his book General History of Connecticut which was" of Evanston, IllinoisNorthwestern University Evanston (elevation 600 ft. Central Time: UTC-0600, 42°02'28"N 087°41'24"W) is a city on Lake Michigan located in Cook County, Illinois directly north of Chicago, east of Skokie, and south of Wilmette. The city was first settled in that banned the dispensing of soda water of the Lord's Day.