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Transcript: Commentary: One hundredth anniversary of the Popsicle
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- July 3, 2005
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LIANE HANSEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
07-03-2005
Commentary: One hundredth anniversary of the Popsicle
Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM
LIANE HANSEN, host:
Here in Washington it's been hot, it's been humid. It's summer and time for some flavored ice frozen to a stick. WEEKEND EDITION essayist, Bonny Wolf, remembers the Popsicle on its 100th birthday.
BONNY WOLF commenting:
It happened by accident. In 1905, 11-year-old Frank Epperson left a cup of soda with a stir stick in it on his porch in San Francisco. That night there was a record cold snap and in the morning Frank found his soda frozen to the stick. He called his new invention an `Eppsicle' and started making ...