jmcquown wrote:
>
> Here's a little known factoid:
>
> http://inventors.about.com/library/i...blpopsicle.htm
>
> In 1905, the Popsicle was invented by an eleven-year-old Frank Epperson.
> Frank Epperson was only 11 years old when he invented the originally named
> Epsicle. He had left his fruit flavored soda outside on the porch with a
> stir stick in it. The drink froze to the stick and tasted good. It took 18
> more years in 1923 for Epperson to apply for a patent for a "frozen ice on a
> stick" called the Epsicle ice pop, which his children re-named the Popsicle.
>
> It's currently 103 degrees outside. Would have been a pop-puddle if he'd
> left it sitting out in this heat. Even the Good Humor Man isn't driving
> around selling his wares. I bought some lemonade popsicles, very nice and
> refreshing. My second favourite is grape followed by orange. How about
> you? Or do you prefer ice cream?


Last month I was helping set up for a horse show and a woman came over
offering us all nice cold Popsicles. Luckily she had chocolate. It was
probably the first Popsicle I had had in about 30 years and I had to make a
note to myself to have them more often.