The ice cream Sundae got it's name in my home town, Evanston, Illinois, home of the Methodist-founded Northwestern University, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union. A hundred years ago, the town leaders didn't care for the iffluence soda fountains had over the populous, keeping the faithful out of church on Sundays. The city city passed a law banning the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday. An industrious soda jerk invented the Sunday Soda, containing ice cream and syrup, but no soda, thereby complying with the letter of the law. Religious leaders then complained that the Sabbath day should not be used for mundane advertising.
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In Play Misty For Me, his directorial debut, Clint Eastwood cast director Don Siegel in a cameo as a bartender. A lot of advertising slogans do not translate well when used in foreign countries. Soap Operas are so called because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder. Correct The average person sees more than 20,000 TV commercials in a year.