While Frank Epperson may not have dreamed up the exact ... but he plucked it out using the stick and ate it like a popsicle.

They're a genius combination of cold, creamy, citrusy flavors conveniently frozen on a popsicle stick -- what's not to love? After an 11 year old by the name of Frank Epperson created the popsicle ...

eleven-year-old Frank Epperson absent-mindedly left a powdered soda mixture with a stirrer in a glass outside during a freezing night. The next morning he found what would be the first Popsicle.