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Popsicle is the most popular brand name in the U.S. and Canada for a brand of ice pop. William Cesal Thomas Moreland is a trademark owned by Unilever, although it has entered the general vernacular in North America. It was founded in Michigan. A green ice pop An ice pop is a frozen water dessert on a stick that is colored and flavored. ... Popsicle is an alternative rock album by indie band Diamond Nights, released in 2005. ... Diamond Nights are an indie rock band whose influences include Thin Lizzy, Urge Overkill, and The Sisters of Mercy. ... In popular music, independent music, often abbreviated as indie, is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels and an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing. ... Norrland is a name for the northernmost part of Sweden, historically one of the four lands of Sweden. ... Image File history File links Popsicle-rogo. ... Image File history File links Popsicle-rogo. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... A green ice pop An ice pop is a frozen water dessert on a stick that is colored and flavored. ... Unilever is a widely listed [2] [3] multi-national corporation, formed of Anglo-Dutch parentage, that owns many of the worlds consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. ... A genericized trademark (also known as a generic trade mark or proprietary eponym) is a trademark or brand name that has become the colloquial or generic description for (or synonymous with) a particular class of product or service. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ...

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History

Frozen juice bars have existed since the 20th century, but the Popsicle was the first form of the product to be mass marketed.


Today it is estimated that three million Popsicles are sold annually. There are more than thirty different flavors.

  • 1905, 11 year old Frank Epperson left a mixture of powdered soda and water out on his porch, which contained a stir stick. That night, temperatures in San Francisco reached record low temperature. When he woke the next morning, he discovered that it had frozen to the stir stick, creating a fruit flavored ice treat, which he named the epsicle. He then waited 18 years before releasing it to the public.
  • 1922, the ice-lollipop was introduced to the public for the first time at an Alameda amusement park, Neptune Beach
  • 1924, Frank Epperson applied for a patent for "frozen confectionery" called the Epsicle ice pop, which he re-named the Popsicle, allegedly at the instigation of his children. It was originally available in seven flavors and marketed as a "frozen drink on a stick."
  • 1925, Epperson sold the Popsicle to the Joe Lowe Company of New York. Good Humor, a subsidiary of Unilever, now owns the rights.
  • 1940s, Woody Gelman created Popsicle Pete as its mascot. He appeared in print and television advertisements, and activity books until 1995.
  • In June 2006, Popsicles with "Natural Flavors and Colors" were introduced, replacing the original versions. Company spokespeople cited customer requests for "an option without some colors and flavors to which some had allergies" as the reason for the change.

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Traditional Advertising

  • The wrapper on traditional Popsicle brand ice bars described their bar as "a quiescently frozen confection."

Current Advertising

The Popsicle brand uses a common slogan that reads "If it's Popsicle, it's possible". [1] This slogan is carried out through a lot of the cardboard advertisements that Popsicle gives to vendors. Look up slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


Related Snacks

Creamsicle is a brand name, also owned by Unilever, for a frozen dessert which resembles an ice pop, with a center composed of vanilla ice cream, and an exterior layer of flavored ice frozen around a wooden or plastic stick. Popular flavors for Creamsicles include orange, blue raspberry, and raspberry. A green ice pop An ice pop is a frozen water dessert on a stick that is colored and flavored. ... Binomial name (L.) Osbeck[1] Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... For the R&B singer named Blue Raspberry, see Blue Raspberry (singer). ... Cultivated raspberries The raspberry (plural, raspberries) is the edible fruit of a number of species of the genus Rubus. ...


American National Creamsicle Day is celebrated on 14 August annually.[citation needed] is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...


Fun With Popsicles

A popsicle stick bomb, ready to be thrown

There are very elaborate crafts constructed with popsicle sticks [1]. One of the most simple is the 'popsicle stick bomb' constructed from 5 popsicle sticks, as shown in the figure. If it is thrown on the floor, it 'explodes' with a loud snap. Image File history File links Popstickb. ... Image File history File links Popstickb. ... A stick bomb is a mechanical explosive device constructed out of flat sticks woven together under tension. ...


Popsicle stick bridges are a classic engineering education project. Competitions are arranged for children as young as grade 3[2]. This article is about the structure. ... Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying scientific knowledge and utilizing natural laws and physical resources in order to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria. ...


The Popsicle brand also have riddles printed on the sticks, the answers to which are hidden by the treat.


Popsicles In Popular Culture

  • One notorious episode of The Gong Show featured an act by two teenage girls whose entire performance consisted of sitting cross-legged in the center of the stage and licking Popsicles in a manner simulating fellatio. Some insiders have claimed that it was this act that led to The Gong Show being canceled.
  • Popsicles play a key part in the plot of the movie American Graffiti. In one scene, Richard Dreyfuss' character discovers the identity of the mysterious DJ Wolfman Jack because of them, and the revelation gives him the courage to leave his hometown gang and go to college.
  • The alternative rock band Fuzzicle referenced the Popsicle slogan by rewording it to "If it's Fuzzicle, it's feasible" which carries the same meaning.[2]
  • On the season 18 Simpsons episode Ice Cream of Margie (With The Light Blue Hair), Marge uses Popsicle sticks (from Homer's stint as an ice cream truck driver) to create statues of different townspeople (which, in the future, becomes the last known piece of art created before Western civilization collapsed when sentient iPods began enslaving humanity).

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Related

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References

  1. ^ Popsicle Activities- Things to Do. Popsicle. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
  2. ^ Official Fuzzicle Homepage. Fuzzicle. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.

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See also

  • Jones, Charlotte Foltz (1991). Mistakes That Worked. Ashley. ISBN 0-385-26246-9. 
  • Popsicle.com
  • Popsicle stick craft projects links
  • Original patent
  • Ultimate Popsicle stick bomb site
  • Popsicle Riddles
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