From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 3631
Date: 2004-11-22
>The point was the assibilation. Was that Chico being Chico, or was that
> Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
>
> > I believe Chico Marx in one of the movies sold "tutsi frutsi" ice cream
> > or ices from a cart.
>
> That was _A Day at the Races_ (1937). So the term was extended from
> chewing gum to ice cream some time between 1888 and 1937, which is
> quite reasonable.