Black History Month: Scoop There It Is!
“Alfred L. Cralle (September 4, 1866 – May 6, 1919) was an African-American businessman and inventor of the “Ice Cream Mold and Disher”.
Cralle was born in Florida Wesley Chapel in 1866 just after the end of the American Civil War (1861–1865).[1][2] He attended local schools and worked with his father in the carpentry trade as a young man, becoming interested in mechanics. He was sent to Washington, D.C. where he attended Wayland Seminary,[1] one of a number of schools founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to help educate African-Americans after the Civil War.
He then settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he first served as a porter in a drug store and at a hotel.[1] Alfred noticed that servers at the hotel had trouble with ice cream sticking to serving spoons, and he developed an ice cream scoop.[3]
On 10 June 1896, Alfred applied for a patent on his invention. He was awarded patent 576,395 on 2 February 1897.[4] The patented “Ice Cream Mold and Disher,” was an ice cream scoop with a built-in scraper to allow for one-handed operation.[5][6] Alfred’s functional design is reflected in modern ice cream scoops.[7]
He later become a general manager for the Afro-American Financial, Accumulating, Merchandise and Business association.[1]
Cralle died from tuberculosis on May 6, 1919, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[8]”
——Wikipedia
Black History in action:
Alfred L. Cralle lives in this 21st TV commercial which is not only one of the best spot promotions on air today, it is also a continuing celebration of his 19th century invention….
Makes you want to grin and share it….
02/03/2021 @ 8:00 pm
Cool! Never knew who invented that. Grew up with it so never thought about it.
02/03/2021 @ 8:04 pm
There are view people in this country who haven’t experienced the benefits of the ice cream scoop…
02/04/2021 @ 1:52 am
👀significant udder👀
Prompts me to retrieve OM’s Golden Guernsey Dairy milk can…picnic table has 4′ of snow on it over what’s gotta be a 3′ swirled cave beneath and we’ve -30 degrees already a blowin’ in the wind…hey dem ‘Children’s Milk Campaign 1968′ can-cans changed the game…cookie cones😛
O my wild dogs did we try! Here’s a cheerio reference (if I may):
Elvis Presley – His Latest Flame (Marie’s The Name) 1961 …
U scream I scream we all scream for ice cream: Hmmm Cherry Garcia wow Ode to Leah
Pure as the driven snow blow Artic wind blow huff and puff three strikes you’re out rumored
R Milhouse Nixon suffered scout gout ours was not to jump and shout evade if you’d pay for clout whatever happened to ice cream socials Baskin Robbins if Peggy Sue only knew me and CYA Sweet lil’ Sheila our rage vs. the MACHine 767.269 miles from nowhere hey hey young & FREE
02/04/2021 @ 7:47 am
“U scream I scream we all scream for ice cream.”
From the banana split to the ice cream cone, virtually every iteration of the dish of ice cream begins with the universal serving in the ‘scoop’….