Popsicle

1. Popsicle by Adam K.

2. On September 7, 1975, the Westside Assembly of God Church in Davenport, Iowa, made a huge iced-pop. The Guinness Book of World Records lists their 5,750-pound creation as the largest iced lollipop on a stick. The frozen treat might have been big, but it wasn’t a genuine Popsicle since Popsicle is a registered trademark name and is made under a patented formula. Popsicles were actually invented in 1905 by eleven-year-old Frank Epperson of California-and the invention was accidental.

3. Option 1 One day Frank’s mother asked him to make lemonade. Frank squeezed the lemons, and poured water into the lemon juice. When he tasted it, it was way too sour so he decided to add some sugar to it. He mixed it with a small wooden spoon. Then it was time to go church so Frank put the lemonade in the ice-box. Once he came back his mother asked if the lemonade was ready. He looked at his lemonade noticed that it was frozen with the wooden spoon stuck into it.

4. Option 2 One day Frank mixed some soda water powder and water, which was a popular drink in those days. He left the mixture on the back porch overnight with his stirring stick still in it. The temperature dropped to a record low that night and the next day Frank Epperson had a stick of frozen soda water to show his friends at school.

5. Eighteen years later, in 1923, Frank Epperson remembered his frozen soda water mixture and began a business producing Epsicles in seven fruit flavors. The name was later changed to the Popsicle. One estimate says three million Popsicle frozen treats are sold each year. There are more than thirty different flavors to choose from, but Popsicle Industries says the general flavor favorite through the years has remained “taste-tingling orange.”

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