"At the time of writing, we're only midway through the 2020s, so we don't know what the most popular dessert of the decade will be. If we had to make an educated guess, we'd say maybe Dubai chocolate or matcha cookies. Come back in about five years, and we'll see how well that sentence aged. If you're reading from the future: Hi, how did we do? Did we age well?"
"The idea came from a Syrian concessionaire named Ernest A. Hamwi, who modeled his version after the Syrian treat zalabi and rolled one of them in a cone-like shape to assist a nearby vendor who had run out of dishes for their ice cream. Word about ice cream cones spread. And by the end of the decade, edible cones were being produced in factories to keep up with demand."
At the midpoint of the 2020s, the decade's most popular dessert remains undetermined, with speculative favorites including Dubai chocolate and matcha cookies. Historical resources can identify popular desserts across past decades. In the 1900s the edible ice cream cone became widely available after appearing at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair; Ernest A. Hamwi modeled the cone after the Syrian treat zalabi to help a vendor without dishes. By the decade's end cones were being produced in factories to meet demand. The text begins to introduce the 1910s with a reference to Devil's food cake.
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