In 1905, eleven-year-old Frank Epperson left his fruit flavoured soda outside on the porch with a stir strick in it. Because of the cold weather outside, the drink froze to the stick and tasted good. Seventeen years later, in 1922, his ice lollipops became a huge hit. Epperson applied for and received a patent for ''froze ice on a stick'' called the "Epsicle Ice Pop", in 1924, which his children later re-named the Popsicle.