Fwd: Re: Popsicle

[Bill Palmer]

In answer to Wilson, Creamsicles (if you mean vanilla ice cream center w/ an
outer layer of orange sherbet, on a stick) were very popular in Norfolk VA,
where I grew up.

Bill Palmer

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From: "Damien Hall" <djh514 at YORK.AC.UK>
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Subject: Fwd: Re: Popsicle


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> Damien
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> From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 16:56:17 -0400
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> FWIW, I've always imagined it to be a blend of _(soda)pop(-like)
> [i]cicle_. Since I came up with this around the age of six, if others
> find it unlikely, I won't be at all surprised. Were there Creamcicles
> elsewhere than in Saint Louis?
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> -Wilson
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> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Damien Hall <djh514 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> My first Twitter-inspired ADSL query: the origins of _popsicle_ (which I
>> now learn is a trademarked name).
>>
>> One of the people I follow mentions the story that the word comes from
>> the
>> inventor's children, who called it "Pop's sicle"; the inventor, Frank
>> Epperson, had apparently called it an _epsicle_, presumably a blend of
>>
>> <ep>(-person) + (i-)<sicle>.
>>
>> OED is 'uncertain', saying it's possibly
>>
>> (lolli-)<pop> + (i-)<sicle>
>>
>> (the usual BrE name for these things is 'ice lolly', presumably an
>> abbreviation of 'lollipop')
>>
>> The online version of MW that I have access to says nothing about the
>> possible etymology, nor does Barry Popik's website. As I don't know about
>> food etymology, but 'I know a man who does', I'm copying Barry in here
>> (with the address he used when he was a member of the list) in case he
>> has
>> any comments; anyone else? The "Pop's sicle" story seems to me possible
>> but
>> unlikely, as too convenient!
>>
>> Damien
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