Sauce Magazine – Clementine’s Ice Cream Adds 4 Flavors Inspired by the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair

Each flavor developed for National Ice Cream Month has its roots in a food favorite among fairgoers.

If there’s one thing St. Louisans love to do, it’s brag. Gooey butter cake is the best dessert. Our food culture is unique. Our history is very rich. Did you know, for example, that St. Louis hosted the World’s Fair in 1904?

You probably knew this. But if you didn’t, this is the perfect month to delve deeper into the subject, because you can do it while enjoying delicious ice cream: Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Ice Cream will be launching a multitude of new flavors inspired by this world’s fair.

The new flavors celebrate both National Ice Cream Month (July) and the Missouri History Museum’s new 1904 World’s Fair exhibit. The creations include Banana Split, Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis, Vegan Waffle Cone-a-Copia and Fairy Floss. Each has a historical backstory.

The Banana Split, a blend of cherries, milk chocolate and banana, is a nod to the dessert of the same name invented in 1904, Clementine’s said in a press release. Meet Me in St. Louis, a candy corn base accented with crunchy cornflakes, is inspired by the World’s Fair’s Missouri Corn Palace. The Cone-a-Copia flavor, a vegan caramel coconut ice cream with dark chocolate bark, features waffle cones, which the company said were invented for the World’s Fair.

Finally, Fairy Floss, aka cotton candy, was invented at the World’s Fair.

“The 1904 World’s Fair is deeply ingrained in St. Louis culture,” owner Tamara Keefe said in a statement. “I wanted to honor Clementine’s hometown by incorporating one of the world’s greatest historical events into a month and day that means so much to our brand. The World’s Fair was the source of so many innovations, from the invention of cotton candy, or “cotton floss,” to the year banana splits became an iconic American dessert.”

The flavors are available online now or at all eight of the creamery’s locations on Sunday, July 21, National Ice Cream Day.