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It's Thursday, June 30th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, the murky history of popsicles and freeze pops, or otter pops, or whatever you call them.

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home. So yesterday I mentioned French's limited edition ketchup popsicle, an unholy creation that

would not have been possible without the earlier invention of the popsicle itself.

So that sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, especially once I learned that the popsicle

was originally invented by an 11-year-old boy on accident.

If the story is to be believed.

There's no huge reason not to believe it, except that there's not a ton of sources,

and things like this do tend to get exaggerated or amended over time.

So the story goes that in 1905, an 11-year-old named Frank Epperson in Noe Valley, San Francisco, was messing around with some water, a wooden stick, and some powdered soda mix.

He got distracted somehow and left the cup outside overnight.

That night, it was unseasonably cold, record-level cold for San Francisco, and the drink had frozen by the time

he found it again in the morning, with the stick standing right up in the middle of it.

Epperson took the stick and was able to pull the frozen drink out of the cup, eating it just like that.

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