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"Baltimore Snowball"
Did you know snowballs were invented in Baltimore in 1800s? They were called "penny sundaes" or "hard time sundaes" and made from shaved ice. First flavor was made by moms from eggs, vanilla and sugar- egg custard, when kids brought home ice shavings they had begged from the iceman.
Going back to the 1800s and gaining popularity during the Great Depression, the Baltimore snowball is not a snow cone or Hawaiian shave ice, but a thing all its own. Snowballs are made of finely shaved ice-just chunky enough to hold up on a summer day-and then soaked with flavored syrup and topped with marshmallow fluff.
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