Things I wouldn't consider consuming as an adult: lollipops. Remember them? Sugar candy usually round in shape on a stick, and consumed by sucking and licking. Something children like to do.
What about a tootsie roll pop? I didn't think they tasted very good. Likely there were too many of the little rolls in the Halloween candy each year. And you know that those are love or hate candies.
Tootsie pops are described as chocolate-flavoured, rather than chocolate. Even as a child, I knew the difference between the two.
These were invented in 1931, and the company - The Sweets Company of America, changed its name to Tootsie Roll Industries in 1969. The catch phrase that defined tootsie pop was "How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll centre of a Tootsie Pop?" It still holds up as the promotion line today.
The lick test has been conducted many times. These seem to be all studies at University - I assume student projects. They are listed in Wikipedia. There is the test by a "licking machine" and that was 364 licks to get to the centre part. There are real students who took an average of 252 licks. And so the variations go.
The definitive one looks to be completed in 2014 at the University of Florida. This scientific examination found 195 plus or minus 18 licks for the one-sided approach and 184 plus or minus 33 for the full-surface approach. They actually measured where the hard candy was thickest and the impact this had on reaching the centre. Such great projects for students. I wonder if there is more candy to examine and analyze.
Here is the latest in the Illustrated Blossom Series.
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