词汇 | carvel |
词源 | Carvel. In 1934 Thomas Andreas Carvelas, a Yonkers, New York, resident, invented a machine for making soft, frozen cus- tard ice cream, which he sold from a truck, competing with such rivals as the Good Humor man. Carvelas later legally changed his name to Tom Carvel and sold franchises that made the Carvel name a household word for soft ice cream by the 1960s. |
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