Related products may also include other fillings with the ice cream and be styled similar to candy bars.Confectioner Harry Burt invented the chocolate-enrobed ice cream on a stick in 1920,[1] and was granted a patent in 1923.[2][3] In 1921,[4] the Eskimo Pie chocolate bar was invented in Iowa by a pharmacy owner named Chris Nelson,[5] who was inspired by a boy named Douglas Ressenden who could not decide between candy and ice cream;[6][7] a patent was awarded in 1922, but invalidated in 1928.[8][1][9] In many countries, there are numerous versions of this dessert which are produced under many different brand names.The term choc ice has also become a racial slur used to describe any person who is figuratively "black on the outside, white on the inside".