Foods Invented b Accident

POPSICLES



One chilly night in 1905, eleven-year-old Frank Epperson left his soda making equipment outside on his San Francisco porch. The next day, he found that stick with which he'd been stirring flavored powder into water had frozen upright in the mixture. In 1924, he applied for a patent for this "Epsicle," which he then redubbed "Popsicle," supposedly at the urging of his children.

CHOCOLATE


Shards of Honduran pottery indicate that as far back as 1100 B.C., beer makers used cacao pods to ferment into beer. About 300 years later, a thrifty soul reclaimed the previously discarded seeds to brew into a non-alcoholic beverage all their own. Little did they suspect that they were in fact cooking up an obsession for the ages.

ICE CREAM CONES

During 1904's St. Louis World's Fair, Syrian pastry vendor Ernest Hamwi helped out a nearby ice cream seller who'd run short on dishes. He rolled his pastry into a cone so the ice cream could be scooped inside. It was a hit, but Italian immigrant Italo Marchiony had also arrived at that combo, acquiring a patent for an ice cream cone earlier in the year.