Popsicles
Every child is grateful for Frank Epperson, even if he or she doesn´t know it. In 1905, Epperson was a mere 11 years old when he accidentally left a soft-drink concoction with a stirring stick in it on the front porch of his San Francisco home. It happened to be a very cold night, and when the boy found his cup the next day, the liquid inside was frozen to the stick. While he had no idea what to make of it at the time, nearly two decades later he patented his "frozen ice on a stick" and called it the Eppsicle, but then changed the name to "Popsicle" because his children liked that better. A few years later he sold his invention to the Joe Lowe Co. in New York. Popsicle eventually ended up in the hands of Unilever´s Good Humor pision, which offers more than 30 flavors today.