Read our big scoop: Ice-cream cones, the ingenious invention of American immigrants0

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• August 20, 2026

DETROIT — Read this quickly, before it melts. Ice cream was a rare and expensive treat for centuries because of the difficulty of storing ice. In the summer of 1790, President George Washington spent $200 on ice cream, the equivalent of $7,259 today, according to the International Dairy Foods Association. By the 1800s, inventions like