Do you know why and how ice-cream cones began to be used? Well, when ice-cream became less expensive and more popular they began to be sold by street vendors. In 1904, Ernest A. Hamwi of St Louis, USA, was selling a crisp, waffle-like pastry in a booth next to an ice-cream vendor who ran out of dishes. Hamwi quickly rolled one of his waffles in the shape of a cone and gave it to the ice-cream vendor. The cone cooled in a few seconds, the vendor put some ice-cream in it and the customers went away happy.