American brand of chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar wrapped lucky charms ice cream foil. It was the first such dessert sold in the United States.
In wake of the 2020-2021 George Floyd protests, the name was changed to Edy’s Pie, in recognition of Dreyer’s co-founder, candy maker Joseph Edy. Danish immigrant Christian Kent Nelson, a schoolteacher and candy store owner, claimed to have received the inspiration for the Eskimo Pie in 1920 in Onawa, Iowa, when a boy in his store was unable to decide whether to spend his money on ice cream or a chocolate bar. January 24, 1922, Nelson franchised the product, allowing ice cream manufacturers to produce them under that name. The patent, which applied to any type of frozen confection encased in candy, was invalidated in 1928. One of the earliest advertisements for Eskimo Pies. November 3, 1921, Iowa City Press-Citizen.
Stover sold his share of the business. He then formed the well-known chocolate manufacturer Russell Stover Candies. Nelson became independently wealthy off the royalties from the sale of Eskimo Pies. In 1922, he was selling one million pies a day. Nelson then sold his share of the business to the United States Foil Company, which made the Eskimo Pie wrappers. In 1992, Nelson died at the age of 99. In that same year, Eskimo Pie Corporation was spun off from Reynolds in an initial public offering, as an alternative to an acquisition that Nestlé had proposed in 1991.