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How Germany's Spaghetti Ice Cream Came to Be | Travel| Smithsonian Magazine

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Italian German ice cream maker Dario Fontanella invented "spaghettieis," a clever dish that has captured the hearts of many

Some 30 million cups of spaghettieis are sold in Germany each year. Christian Cable via Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic When Dario Fontanella dreamed up a wacky dessert imposter for his children in the 1960s, the Italian German ice cream maker couldn’t have foreseen that his concoction would one day delight millions of people, young and old. Spaghetti ice cream, or spaghettieis , as it came to be called, gives the appearance of a bowl of spaghetti through methods that he invented to shape ice cream into thin strings. What looks like marinara and parmesan cheese

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