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a candy on a stick, weaponizing your own laziness against your dental bill.
means A hard candy or sweet mounted on the end of a small stick, designed to be sucked rather than chewed.
from An English word recorded from the late 1700s, likely built from dialect 'lolly' — a Northern English word for the tongue — joined to 'pop,' the sound or sense of something popping into your mouth. So a 'lollipop' is roughly a 'tongue-pop': a sweet for the tongue. The word predates the candy-on-a-stick; early lollipops were simply sweets, and only later did the form settle onto the now-familiar stick.
- name origin
- Possibly named after a winning racehorse, Lolly Pop
- machine age
- Automated production began around 1908 in Connecticut
- licks to center
- Science says roughly 1,000, despite the owl's claim
- hole in stick
- That hole anchors candy so it won't fly off
dum dums — candy brand founded in 1924 by spangler, still the world's most produced lollipop with 20 million made daily
chupa chups — spanish lollipop brand created in 1958, famous for dalí-designed logo and sold in 150+ countries
tootsie pops — lollipop with chocolate center launched by tootsie in 1931, known for the 'how many licks' owl commercial