Ice-cream on a stick

Often there are more than 35 degrees outside in Greece during summer time and what is more refreshing than an ice-cream on a stick? Everybody knows it, everybody eats it and everybody loves it. In almost every Greek tavern, restaurant or bar you can buy it while spending your holidays there, but is it also a Greek invention?

More than 100 years ago, the 11-year old boy Feodras Eppersikis forgot his glass of fresh lemonade including a spoon outside of the veranda of his Mediterranean stone house near Thessaloniki. Unexpectedly, it got very cold over the next night – as cold as it gets in Greece only very seldom – namely under 0 degrees.
In the morning of the next day, Feodras found his favorite, beloved drink frozen and the spoon pinned in the middle. Nevertheless, he was not able to resist and licked the cylindrical ice. Surprised he recognized that the lemonade still tasted good and when the hot months after spring were coming in Greece, he used his new discovery as cooling.  

18 years later, Mr. Eppersikis applied for a patent for ice on a stick and started to sell it. As you probably agree, ice-cream is irresistible, and in Greece where the sun is burning and letting you almost melt in summer, even more. Therefore his invention became a great success. That’s why he started to experiment a bit with different flavors and textures. Only a short time after this new product appeared on the Greek food market, he also owned a patent for his creamy vanilla ice on a stick which got later completed and became absolutely perfect through a thin layer of chocolate around it.

Finally, what do you think? Is the lucky accident of Feodras Eppersikis just a fictional story or is it true? Just speak if it’s Greek!

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