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Elsie Sticks were plastic ice cream sticks which became useful as an interlocking toy after the ice cream bar was eaten. They were produced in the early 1970s through Borden Inc. dairy in the United States.Historically Elsie Sticks appear to have emerged in the 1950s with U.S. Patent 2844910 a construction kit made of wooden ice cream sticks by the Southern Ice Cream Company of Kansas City MO. This patent was extended in 1972 with U.S. Patent 3663717 and U.S. Patent 3748778.