Ice Lollies

[slyandgobbo]

Who invented the ice lolly?

[horseman]

It is claimed that 11-year-old American Frank Epperson invented the US version of the ice-lolly (the popsicle) when he left his drink of flavoured soda powder and water outside overnight in 1905. Almost 20 years later he started a company that made 'Epsicles' and the name was later adapted to Popsicle. In Britain the first ice lolly is credited to Sir Guy Lawrence a wartime bomber pilot and international ski racer. He was head of Glacier Foods, which produced the 'Kula Fruta' - Britain's first ice lolly - in the late 1940s. He later moved to to another company and produced the Orange Maid lolly - 'the drink on a stick'.

[Lindsey]

But I think earlier than that during the 18th Century big houses had 'ice houses' built in the grounds, and children would be given cups of shaved ice with flavoured syrups. So I guess ice lollies are just the commercial development of those?