A strange little side quest
Put How to Cook Chicken Noodle Soup next to the history of food history and a few unexpected connections appear. Cone-shaped wafers with cream were described in print before 1900, but the ice-cream cone became a major American fairground hit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. And the history keeps stacking up: M.U.L.E. arrived in 1983 with multiplayer competition built around gathering resources and keeping a colony alive, an early example of resource-driven strategy play. That is the kind of background detail that makes another attempt at How to Cook Chicken Noodle Soup feel a bit more connected to the history of play.
