Eight days ago we posted about the invention of the ice cream cone at the 1904 Worlds Fair in St. Louis. Today’s gastronomic wonder comes from New Jersey: the Pizza Cone was patented forty years ago today by Joseph Eufemia, of New Milford, N.J. His U.S. Patent No. 4,463,021:

Other contributors to conic dining include Michael Thilavanh, who patented a generic “Food Cone”:

Gilbert Shin who invented an Ice Cream and Food Cone:

William Pordy who invented a Food Cone:

and Salvatore Ruggiero who also invented a Food Cone:

A quick Google search suggests that Pizza Cones are quite popular, and perhaps Mr. Eufemia, like many inventors, was just ahead of his time.