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This article is about the ice cream dessert. A banana split is an American ice cream-based dessert consisting of a peeled banana cut in half lengthwise, and served with ice-cream and sauce between the two pieces. There are some regional variations on the name. For example, in parts of the UK, it is known as a banana longboat, likely referring to hokey pokey ice cream shape of the dish.

The original banana split was made with three scoops of different flavored ice creams, topped with fruits, and served over a banana that was split vertically down the middle. The original recipe used strawberries, raspberries and crushed pineapple with marshmallow syrup, chopped nuts, and pitted black cherries. Strickler’s marshmallow sauce is no longer used as a topping. The traditional toppings used in today’s banana split include pineapple, strawberry and chocolate sauce, whipped cream, nuts, and cherries. Caramel sauce, on the other hand, is a non-traditional topping used in later variations of the classic banana split. Variations on the classic may use grilled bananas, experiment with different flavors of ice cream such as coconut or coffee, or sauces like salted caramel and warm butterscotch. Banana splits and ice cream sundaes served at a soda fountain at the 1st U.

Cold beverages and ice cream were a novelty in the mid-1800s when soda fountains began selling ice cream concoctions. The origin of the banana split is controversial, but most historians believe it was first created in 1904 by an optometrist in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, named David “Doc” Strickler. Wilmington, Ohio, also claims an early connection dating to 1907 when Ernest “Doc” Hazard created a dessert in hopes of attracting students from Wilmington College to his shop during the slow days of winter. Latrobe, Pennsylvania, as the birthplace of the banana split. Both towns hold an annual festival in honor of the dessert.

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