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Wilmington

Wilmington, Ohio
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About Wilmington

Wilmington is a city in Clinton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Its population was 12,664 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Wilmington micropolitan area, which includes all of Clinton County and is part of the greater Cincinnati-Wilmington-Maysville combined statistical area.

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Two places in America claim to have invented the banana split: Wilmington, Ohio, and Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Wilmington says it was invented by a guy called E.R. Hazard, who supposedly came up with banana splits — you take a banana, you split it in half, you put ice cream in the middle of it.

from 457: No Such Thing As An Acoustic Tram, 2022-12-16 at 00:35:59 · read transcript

Other times Wilmington came up

  1. I read this is a claim that she'd invented the banana split and people were claiming this back in the 50s. Historians have since concluded, so don't panic at Wilmington, La Trobe, that she actually invented the Banana Royale, which I was not familiar with. but it's like a crap banana split where you chop the banana the wrong way. You dropped the banana across the waist rather than dissecting it top to bottom.

    No Such Thing As An Acoustic Tram, 2022-12-16 · listen

  2. I know for a fact that they were being sold close by in 1905. Oh, okay. I found some newspaper adverts, one in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which is fairly close to La Trobe, about 100 miles away. They were selling them in 1906, which was a year before they were supposedly invented in Wilmington. There was a, yeah, some from 1904, 1905, 1906. You can see they start popping up in newspapers as being advertised.

    No Such Thing As An Acoustic Tram, 2022-12-16 · listen

  3. I know for a fact that they were being sold close by in 1905. I found some newspaper adverts, one in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which is fairly close to La Trobe, it was about 100 miles away. They were selling them in 1906, which was a year before they were supposedly invented in Wilmington. Some from 1904, 1905, 1906, you can see they start popping up in newspapers as being advertised.

    457: No Such Thing As An Acoustic Tram, 2022-12-16 · listen

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