snow cones
...age to the long standing tradition. Zz z z z z z z z z z z z z z z f gf gf gf gf gfjdgk fisjf ijf ijq kfjsdjk fsdfjl sdkj kasjd alsjawi kdjak KZXc KJdskad f f f g ty t rerswdf dafa d ser erws sfdsrf vdwr eslkfj sfkdjmsd kmc dkm sfmkd dkmfc dsfuhe uirr haiehr eaidw idejw alwjd ais id ifhd eiraj iasrj asjkd alsjd aksjd ajd ksajd During the Roman Empire , snow was brought from the mountain tops to the city. Syrup was added to make the world's first frozen dessert, the snow-cones. The first manufactured snow was made by hand tools such as a wood plane. These tools can shave a block of ice into fluffy snow. Hand held ice shavers were designed specially to make snow-balls. Ice shavers made by numerous manufacturers were available in the late eighteen hundreds. In New Orleans the snow-ball cooling tradition was popularized around the 1920's. In 1934, Ernest Hansen invented and patented the first motorized ice block shaver to produce New Orleans style shaved-ice. The high volume snow production was welcomed by the corner ice shaver vendors citywide. Numerous other New Orleans sno-ball machines followed. Most of the retail shaved ice outlets in New Orleans spell the name of their product sno-balls without the w. This spelling identifies the product to all New Orleanians and indicates an ethnic heritage to the long standing tradition. Zz z z z z z z z z z z z z z z f gf gf gf gf gfjdgk fisjf ijf ijq kfjsdjk fsdfjl sdkj kasjd alsjawi kdjak KZXc KJdskad f f f g ty t rerswdf dafa d ser erws sfdsrf vdwr eslkfj sfkdjmsd kmc dkm sfmkd dkmfc dsfuhe uirr haiehr eaidw idejw alwjd ais id ifhd eiraj iasrj asjkd alsjd aksjd ajd ksajd During the Roman Empire , snow was brought from the mountain tops to the city. Syrup was added to make the world's first frozen dessert, the snow-cones. The first manufactured snow was made by hand tools such as a wood plane. These tools can shave a block of ice into fluffy snow. Hand held ice shavers were designed specially to make sno...