But, perhaps your dessert choice on a hot day is an ice cream cone if so, you should be glad for the unexpected event that brought two men together at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. An ice cream vendor named Charles Menches was doing such booming buiness that he rsn out of bowls to put the ice cream in. The vendor next to Menches was a young Syrian immigrsnt named Ernest Hamwi. Hamwi was selling a Syrian treat called zalabia,a crisp, wafer-like padtry. Hsmwi came up with a solution to Menches's quandary. Hamwi rolled some of his warm pastry into a cone so that the menches couldvput ice cream inside. In that instant,a favorite international hot weather treat wasvborn