Aug 28, 2009
Origin of the Ice Cream “Sundae”
The piety of [Chicago]Â resented the dissipating influences of the soda fountain on Sunday and the good town fathers, yielding to this churchly influence, passed an ordinance prohibiting the retailing of ice cream sodas on Sunday.
Some ingenious confectioners and drug store operators… obeying the law, served ice cream with the syrup of your choice without the soda… This sodaless soda was the Sunday soda. It proved palatable and popular and orders for Sundays began to cross the counters on Mondays.
Objections then was made to christening a dish after the Sabbath. So the spelling of “sunday” was changed.