The iconic popsicle has one of those “accidental” creation stories that we love (not unlike the truffle.) As the apocryphal story has it, one day in 1905, a ten-year-old boy named Frank Epperson left a cup filled with powdered soda, water, and a stirrer on his porch on a cold winter night. Did he do that by accident, or was he experimenting during the winter with frozen summer snacks? Unclear. In any case,…