History
Shave ice traces its history to Japan, where it is known as kakigōri and dates back to the Heian Period. "Shave ice enjoyed world-wide popularity after Japanese plantation workers immigrated to the Hawaiian islands and took their traditional dessert with them, creating shave ice from large blocks of ice and using Japanese swords which were family heirlooms."
In 1934, inventor Ernest Hansen designed an "ice block shaver" in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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