A man named David Strickler was a drugstore soda jerk in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The city celebrated the 100th anniversary of the invention of the banana split in 2004. Strickler is credited as the inventor of the banana-based triple ice cream sundae in Michael Turback's The Banana Split Book.

A year or two later, historians say, a Boston ice cream entrepreneur came up with the same sundae--with one minor flaw. He served his banana splits with the bananas unpeeled until he discovered that ladies preferred them peeled.

Town fathers in Wilmington, Ohio, claim their city, southeast of Dayton, is the birthplace of the popular treat. They say 1907 was the year and restaurant owner Ernest Hazard was the man. The town commemorates the event each June with a Banana Split Festival.

According to town lore, Hazard wanted to attract fickle students from Wilmington College during the slow days of winter. He staged an employee contest to come up with a new ice cream dish. When none of his workers was up to the task, he split a banana lengthwise, threw it into an elongated dish and created his own dessert.

Ummm whoa! Hold on there, Magilla Gorilla.

The origin of the banana spilt is not so clear cut as you would like us all to believe. Your bias is evident and I question your motives here.

According to wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...nana_split



So please take your pro-Stickler agenda and give it to some chimp!

Cause we don't play that shit in here!!

Restaurateurs and drugstore owners in Chicago, Cincinnati, and Wilmington, Ohio, also have claimed that their ancestors or former employees invented the banana split. But those claims are rejected in favor of the Strickler/Latrobe version of events by Mike Turback, an Ithaca, N.Y.-based food writer and author of The Banana Split Book: Everything There Is to Know About America’s Greatest Dessert (Camino Books, 2004). According to Turback, banana splits may indeed have been created independently in Chicago and Wilmington—but not until 1905 and 1907, respectively. As for the claim that a Columbus soda fountain worker named Letty Lally concocted a banana split in the same year as Strickler (1904), Turback concluded that what Lally actually produced was the first “banana royal,” a sundae made with banana slices rather than a banana split lengthwise.
“I’ve talked with everybody and checked out every alternative claim, and there is no question in my mind that David Strickler was the father of the banana split,” Turback said.
The National Ice Cream Retailers Association (NICRA) agrees. This summer, NICRA gave Latrobe’s mayor a certificate honoring the city as the banana split’s birthplace and Strickler as its father. One convincing bit of evidence, Turback noted, is an order—preserved today at Latrobe’s historical center—that Strickler placed in 1905 with a Grapeville, Pa., glassmaker for distinctive “banana boat” dishes for his splits. The company, Westmoreland Glass, continued to produce the dishes through 1984.

http://www.umc.pitt.edu/m...Split.html

Although divided over his true nature, bible scholars unanimously agree that Jesus Christ's first proven miracle was the invention of the banana split when he was a boy in Jerusalem. This despite the heretical tradition, initiated by the rogue disciple Maccabeus Sticklerus, a man so evil he is not even listed in the Bible, that the banana split was a rumor and a fable, until such time as a man would "have a certificate given unto him by a servant of LaTrobe, in testimony to its banana splitty goodness."

i've never had one.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

What-what-WHAAAAT?

That's solid proof right there.

FunkMistress said:

i've never had one--never have had the desire to try one, either.

FunkMistress said:

i've never had one--never have had the desire to try one, either.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

But it's ice cream!

And BANANAS!

Not to mention the hot fudge, whipped cream and walnuts for crimeny's sake!!!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

But it's ice cream!

And BANANAS!

Not to mention the hot fudge, whipped cream and walnuts for crimeny's sake!!!

FunkMistress said:

but i like my 'nanas and ice cream relatively separate (banana ice cream is awesome, tho')

...and i fucking LOATHE whipped cream.

FunkMistress said:

but i like my 'nanas and ice cream relatively separate (banana ice cream is awesome, tho')...and i fucking LOATHE whipped cream.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Are you one of those "special" people who doesn't like their food to touch?

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

*speechless*

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

But it's ice cream!

And BANANAS!

Not to mention the hot fudge, whipped cream and walnuts for crimeny's sake!!!

Are you one of those "special" people who doesn't like their food to touch?

FunkMistress said:

FunkMistress said:

imagine if they were still 10 cents, i would get sick

yay!!!!!

yay!!!!!