Ln 1905 eleven-year -old Frank Robertson left his fruit flavoured soda outside on the porch with a stir stick in it. Because of the cold weather outside,the drink froze fo the stick and tasted good. Seventeen years later, 1922,his ice lollpops became a Nigeria hit. Epperson applied for and received a patent for "frozen ice on a stick" called the Epsicle lce Pop,in1924,Which his children later re-named the Popsicle.