The story is a little vague but there’s no doubt that the first one was served at the CNE in 1940. That makes the unpretentious but somehow heavenly Ice Cream Waffle a plump 75 years old. It could be its sheer simplicity or that “everybody likes ice cream and everybody likes waffles and when you put them together, it’s perfect,” as “wafflier” Kathy Hunter told the CBC. Legend has it that midway employee Sharole Levan (later crowned the “Waffle Lady”) hopped off the Conklin Shows carnival train at The Ex and brought with her the ice cream waffle concept. The CNE says carnival king Patty Conklin partnered with her and the rest, as they say, is history.
