the creation of ice cream cone goes back to the louisiana purchase exposition in st,louis in 1904. it was there that an ice cream salesman brought his date two gifts-an ice cream sandwich and a bouquet of flowers. the lady had trouble holding both at the same time. So she took one cookie wafer from the ice cream sandwich and wrapped it around the ice cream to keep it from dropping. the ice cream cone was born then because of a date at the 1904 exposition