 This date was 1881. The first ice cream sundae was served by accident. A druggist by the name of Edward Berner of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, couldn't serve the desirable but scandalous, yeah, you couldn't serve it on the Sabbath, flavored soda water that his customer wanted. So Berner compromised and put ice cream in a dish and poured the syrup on top of it. And voila, you had the sundae, a little ice cream.