Lolipops!

Quick Facts

• Ingredients: Sugar, Corn Syrup, Citric Acid,Salt, Titanium Dioxide color,and Soya Lecithin.
• Artificial and Natural Flavors
• Artificial Colors: FD&C Yellow 5, Red 40, Red 3, Yellow 6 and Blue 1 (depends on colour of lollipop, this is just a red and yellow lollipop)
• Place of Origin: America
• Brands: Dum Dums, Tootie Roll Pops, Laffy Taffy, Rainbow Swirl Suckers, Charms, Suger Daddies, Blow Pops, Jolly Rancher Pops, Chupa Chups
• Variations: Toffee Apples, Chewy Lollipops, Chocolate Lollipops

Ok, another sweet favourite of mine - the lollipop. I found this one a bit more interesting, as well as being a lot easier to research.

The first modern lollipops are though to come from New Haven, Connecticut in America, in 1908, but the original lollipops were thought to have been invented during the American Civil War (1861-65). Other people believe they came about early 1800's. But George Smith claimed to be the first inventor, and trademarked the name in 1931. He thought of the idea by experimenting with sweets on sticks, which he thought would be easier to  eat off. It is said that he named the sweet after a race horse at the time, Lolly Pop.But the first real similarity to the modern lollipop appeared much earlier in time, in the Middle Ages, which were boiled sweets on sticks.

Well, what I consider a lollipop is any sweet on a stick, and there are so many "Lollipops". Chocolate lollipops take me about 30 seconds to eat, but there is something about them that makes me love them. Chewy lollipops take longer, but they can be really annoying to eat, but are definitely easier to eat than a normal chewy bar like Refreshers or Stinger bar. The are these really weird lollipops that are made of jelly's with weird icing on them, those now I really don't like. But the lollipop type I really find frustrating is the really big ones-the ones about the size of your face. Its because they are so so so difficult to eat, and they take so long to eat to!

My favourite lollipop has to be the ones you always get free inn shop or at the doctors, really because there free. The are also so many flavours!

 Here's Mika's Song "Lollipop" from YouTube.I chose it because it was one of the best videos I could find on this topic, that was actually good. So, enjoy! Next up are jelly beans!


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