Suck, lick… delicious candy.
- Lollipops are hard, flavoured sugar and corn syrup confectionery on a stick.
- Lollipops are also known as suckers or sticky pops.
- Lollipops are available in many sizes, shapes, colours and flavours like bubblegum and rainbow.
- Lollipops are typically eaten at room temperature.
- Certain lollipops have been made for those who are on a diet, said to help with weight loss.
- Some lollipops contain medicine, mainly for children.
- Early lollipops were made in the Middle Ages, which essentially was boiled sugar on a stick, or with handles.
- Although there have been several suggestions of different modern lollipop inventors between 1800-1910, George Smith is said to be the first lollipop inventor, inventing the modern lollipop in 1908, and trademarked the name in 1931.
- George Smith named the lollipop after a popular racing horse at the time, Lolly Pop.
- George Smith originally implemented the lollipop to be soft candy instead of hard.
Bibliography:
Lollipop 14 December 2012, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollipop>
