if so,you should be glad for the unexpected event that brought two men together at 1904 . An ice cream vendor named Charles was doing such booming business that he ran out of bowls to put the ice cream in.the vendor next to Menches was a young Syrian immigrant named Ernest Hamwi.Hamwi was selling a Syrian treat called zalabia,a crisp,wafer-like pastry.Hamwi came up with solution to Menches's quandary. hamwi rolled some of his warm pastry into a cone so that Menches could put ice cream inside.In that instant,a favorite international hot weather treat was born.