The origin story behind the ice cream sundae comes swirled with mystery, history, as well as chocolate and even a cherry on top.

When Edward Berners died at 75 on July 1, 1939, the Chicago Daily Tribune published an obituary the next day headlined “Man Who Made First Ice Cream Sundae Is Dead.”

Ann Marie Borek and Michael Paulukonis enjoy sundaes at The Washington House Museum in the tiny Wisconsin town of Two Rivers on July 5, 2006. The store inside the museum is a replica of Berners’ Ice Cream Parlor, believed to be the birthplace of the ice cream sundae in 1881. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune)

The paper wrote that Berners claimed he originated the sundae at his ice cream parlor in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, about 40 years before his death, when George Hallauer asked him to put chocol

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