Tootsie Pop
American candy
A Tootsie Pop (also called a Tootsie Roll Pop, and known in Latin America as a Tutsi Chupa Pop) is a hard candy lollipop filled with a chocolate-flavored chewy Tootsie Roll candy. They were invented in 1931 by an employee of The Sweets Company of America. Tootsie Rolls had themselves been invented in 1896 by Leo Hirschfield. The company changed its name to Tootsie Roll Industries in 1969.
The candy made its debut in 1931 and since then various flavors have been introduced. The idea came to be when a man who worked at The Sweets Company of America licked his daughter's lollipop at the same time he was chewing his Tootsie Roll. He loved the idea and pitched it to everyone at the next snack ideas meeting.
In 2002, 60 million Tootsie Rolls and 20 million Tootsie Pops were produced every day.
Commercials
Tootsie Pops are known for the catchphrase "How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?" The phrase was first introduced in an animated commercial which debuted on US television in 1970. In the original television ad created by Eugene Azzam of W.B. Doner of Detroit, MI, a questioning boy (voiced by Buddy Foster) poses the question to a cow (voiced by Frank Nelson), a fox (voiced by Paul Frees), a turtle (voiced by Ralph James), and an owl (voiced by Paul Winchell).
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