Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for July 19, 2020

Corn is a grain, a fruit and a vegetable.

Why, she does it anyway.

I still refuse to eat carrot cake and sweet potato pie. Desserts are no place for vegetables.

High fructose corn syrup is all artificial and very bad for your health.

Corn in all popsicles. And some are grape, strawberry, cherry, and orange. Vegetable and fruit in one serving. Those popsicle makers are a crafty bunch!

That’s why I drink copious amounts of cola and ginger ale!

if you were eating it today where i live it would have already melted.

The popsicle has a very interesting history. According to Wikipedia:

“The Popsicle was accidentally invented in 1905 by 11-year-old Frank Epperson. Epperson left a mixture of powdered soda and water and a stirring stick in a cup on his porch. That night San Francisco went through unusually low temperatures, and Epperson awoke the next morning to find a frozen pop that would eventually become a favorite American snack.

At first, Epperson named his frozen snack the “Epsicle”, and it became popular with his school friends. In 1923, while running a lemonade stand at an amusement park in Oakland, California, Epperson realized that he could earn money from his invention. Epperson changed the name of his treat to “Popsicle”, after his children always asked for “Pop’s ’sicle”, and signed up for a patent. The patent for frozen ice on a stick was issued August 19, 1924.

Around 1925, Epperson sold the popsicle rights to the brand name Popsicle to the Joe Lowe Company in New York. By 1928, Epperson had earned royalties on more than 60 million Popsicle ice pops."

3rd Frame: “Pospicles”???