Frank Hardy has a plan (ivegotaplan) wrote in valarnet, @ 2018-06-30 20:44:00 |
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Summer is for fun in the sun and, of course, ice cream. But did you know that no one person or place can be credited for the invention of ice cream? Some historians claim that a Roman emperor was the first when he demanded ice from the mountains to be mixed with fruit, while others claim that it was first invented in China as a milk and fruit-type dessert creation. Neither has any concrete evidence to back up the claim.
On the other hand, we can trace the origin of the popsicle back to 11-year old Frank Epperson, who in 1905 left a cup filled with powdered soda, water, and stirrer sitting on his porch in the winter. It just goes to show that all of history sometimes can't compete with a kid and his search for dessert.