Popsicles

Guide Note

Popsicles are the brand name for the original Ice Pop. The treats are frozen bars of juice, sugar and other ingredients surrounding a wooden stick. Popsicles are usually sold in packs with different flavors and styles in the frozen food section of the supermarket.

Fast Facts

1. Invented: 1905
2. Inventor: Frank Epperson
3. First called: "Epsicle"
4. Named changed to Popsicle in 1923
5. Patent issued: 1924
6. First sold in grocery stores in 1950s
7. Manufactured by Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream Company, owned by Unilever
8. Tagline: "A quiescently frozen confection"
9. Must be kept in a freezer
10. Flavors include Creamsicle and Fudgesicle
11. First mass marketed form of ice pops

Eleven year old Frank Epperson mistakenly left some fruity soda outside overnight, with a stick in it. It was frozen by morning and the Popsicle was born. Epperson continued to develop the product and obtained the patent for it in 1924. Each year new versions of the classic treat are sold on stores shelves, and the basic orange, cherry and grape flavors endure.