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.