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Ice pop

Liquid-based frozen confection on a stick

This article is about the frozen snack on a wooden stick. For the frozen confection without a stick, see Freezie. For the frozen dessert that contains ice cream, see Ice cream bar.

Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Popsicle (disambiguation), icelolly.com, Ice cube, and Shave ice.

An ice pop is a liquid/cream-based frozen dessert on a stick.^[1]^[2] Unlike ice cream or sorbet, which are whipped while freezing to prevent ice crystal formation, an ice pop is frozen while at rest, becoming a solid block of ice with an icy texture. It is a fusion of flavored liquid, like juice or a sweetened water-based liquid. The stick is used as a handle to hold it. Without a stick, the frozen product would be a freezie. It can be calorie restricted, but commercial options usually contain added sugars, corn syrup and artificial ingredients.^[3]

An ice pop is also referred to as a popsicle (a brand name) in Canada and the United States, a paleta in Mexico, the Southwestern Unit

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popsicle patent #1,505,592 USPTO ¹

Francis William "Frank" Epperson (August 11, 1894 – October 22, 1983) was the guy who invented the popsicle. He was granted US patent #1,505,592 on August 19, 1924, for "frozen confectionery". ¹

Epperson originally called his creation the Ep-sicle. At some point his children convinced him to rename it the popsicle. He began selling it outside amusement parks like Idora Park and Neptune Beach in Alameda. At the time he worked selling property for the Realty Syndicate.

Unfortunately he had to sell his patent in 1929; "I was flat and had to liquidate all my assets." ²

It is not clear where he lived when he invented the popsicle. The family lived in San Francisco in 1905 when Epperson's story took place: he says he left a stick in a container of water in overnight in the backyard and it froze, and it gave him the idea. Regardless, he lived in Oakland when he received his patent in 1924, and lived here from 1906 until his retirement in 1968 when the family moved to Fremont.

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Frozen desserts have been enjoyed for millennia. Ancient Roman slaves were sent up into the mountains to retrieve blocks of ice, to be crushed and served with fruit and spice syrups. Medieval Venetial explorer Marco Polo enjoyed sorbets and ices when he traveled to the Chinese court of Kublai Khan. And in the early history of the United States, Thomas Jefferson entertained many visitors to Monticello with iced sorbets and freezes.

Fast forward to 1905, when an 11-year-old boy named Frank Epperson of Oakland, California had an accidental epiphany after he inadvertently left a glass—filled with water, powdered soda mix and a wooden stick for stirring—outside overnight. When young Frank found the glass in the morning, the soda mixture was frozen solid, so he ran the glass under hot water and removed the ice pop using the stick as a handle. Frank, who knew he'd stumbled across a great idea, kept making the pops for his friends—and when he became an adult, he made them for his own children.

In 1923, Epperson filed for a patent for his invention. Up until then, he had been calling th