The fact that a child invented the treat that all of us enjoy is not uneventful, but it was invented before people had freezers in their home.

Back then the popular drink was made from soda water powder, a Kool-Aid-like drink that made carbonated beverages. This drink was popular before people had freezers in their home.

One night in 1905, a man named Frank Epperson, accidentally left his drink outside on the porch and it froze overnight. The next day when he found and drank it, he thought it was delicious. He did not tell anyone about this drink that he liked so well but 18 years later he decided to patent the drink, using the name Epp’s Icicles, as he called it. But his children refused to call it by that name, since none of them called their father anything but Pop. They began by calling the drink Popsicle instead and the treat was patented as such.

The fact that it had originally been made with home mixed soda pop was a total coincidence.

Another note: I have noticed a lot of fire ant beds in my yard recently. This is a suggested bait for them—take uncooked grits and sprinkle them on and around the mound. When the ants eat the grits and then drink water, the grits swell inside the ants and they die.