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approximately 5,922 licks.

Oh, come on now!  Don't you remember the commercials with the wise old owl? Everyone knows it's 3! 
http://www.4antennaball.com/bin/img/product/0080316_tootsie_pop_lollipop_owl_antenna_topper_ball_candy_lick.jpg

("One, two-hoo, thu-ree!" *CRUNCH!* Three!")  ;)

Oh, come on now!  Don't you remember the commercials with the wise old owl? Everyone knows it's 3! 
http://www.4antennaball.com/bin/img/product/0080316_tootsie_pop_lollipop_owl_antenna_topper_ball_candy_lick.jpg

("One, two-hoo, thu-ree!" *CRUNCH!* Three!")  ;)


Yeah, but that's just a cartoon commercial.

I actually counted in junior high, and I got through at least with a few more than 500 licks.

Yeah, but that's just a cartoon commercial.
Hey, I was satisfied with the owl's answer.  ;D

:-X you must take into account the saliva output in conjuction with the tounge dimensions and divide by the pop circumference with concideration of the mass of the 'tootsie nugget' encased.

You will get different answers from kids and grown ups. :o

If anyone else recalls...The owl only counted 3 as the pop was bitten to reach the center.

:-X you must take into account the saliva output in conjuction with the tounge dimensions and divide by the pop circumference with concideration of the mass of the 'tootsie nugget' encased.

You will get different answers from kids and grown ups. :o

If anyone else recalls...The owl only counted 3 as the pop was bitten to reach the center.
I always found the owls calculation to be correct...at least for me ;)

Oh, come on now!  Don't you remember the commercials with the wise old owl? Everyone knows it's 3! 
http://www.4antennaball.com/bin/img/product/0080316_tootsie_pop_lollipop_owl_antenna_topper_ball_candy_lick.jpg

("One, two-hoo, thu-ree!" *CRUNCH!* Three!")  ;)


;D Sounds like Sesame Street to me!  The number 3 is brought to you by Tootsie Pops, and the NFL, which is a proud sponsor of Super Bowl 40!  ;D

I'm gonna go with 3.

What is a Tootsie Pop?

What is a Tootsie Pop?


A yummy, delicious, sweet, teeth-rotting treat.

A yummy, delicious, sweet, teeth-rotting treat.
Something tells me, that I do not wish to know now.

It is a lollipop with a tootsie roll at the center, Philip.

It is a lollipop with a tootsie roll at the center, Philip.
Then again, what is a tootsie roll?

Don't think I ever really licked them. I mean, come on, it's a sucker. You lose a lot of taste if you're just licking it.

For me it's at least 40 or more.

Then again, what is a tootsie roll?
lol, good one Phil, you probably also don't know what a Hershey Bar is ;)

Anyway, there are too many licking techniques to define which one can get you to the center faster or slower :P
http://www.tootsie.com/image-sb/licks/howmany7.jpg    http://www.tootsie.com/image-sb/licks/howmany9.jpg  How many licks?  The world may never know.

Check this out! We might finally get the answer  ;D 

http://www.gagworks.com/browseproducts/Tootsie-Pop-Lick-O-meter.html

Check this out! We might finally get the answer  ;D 

http://www.gagworks.com/browseproducts/Tootsie-Pop-Lick-O-meter.html
Now own up those that brought on of these?

Whe we were kids, my brother got there in 396. :P

Check this out! We might finally get the answer  ;D 

http://www.gagworks.com/browseproducts/Tootsie-Pop-Lick-O-meter.html



Woah!! Sweet!!!!!!  :D




~Beth

Now we have an IDEA: But as I always said..the world may never know...EVEN THEY SAID IT!!!

We are aware of three studies that have been conducted. Each group contacted us to inform us of the results of their experiments:
A group of engineering students from Purdue University recorded that their licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. They tried the same licking test on 20 volunteers and found that the average licks to the center were 252 licks.

Plans for the Purdue licking machine

A chemical engineering doctorate student from the University of Michigan recorded that his licking machine required an average of 411 licks per Tootsie Pop.
A group of students at Swathmore School used human lickers in a scientific experiment and determined it took an average of 144 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.



Junior high students at Swarthmore School conducting their study in sweets

Based on the wide range of results from these scientific studies, it is clear that the world may never know how many licks it really takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop.

Looks like everyone gets a new answer!

They can find a cow that has a disease and which stall it lives in, who it's children are and pinpoint its exact location and who it had contact with and yet the world can't figure the same answer for the question posed here...I was emailed this older result:


Tootsie Roll Pops
how many licks to get to the center:from geocities.com
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Statistics:
Boys Total Mean: 1239, Total Median: 1246, Total Range: 764-1891, Total Standard Deviation: 399.37
Trial #1 - Mean: 1228, Median: 1233, Range: 764-1891, Standard Deviation: 441.8
Trial #2 - Mean: 1250, Median: 1259, Range - 887-1887, Standard Deviation: 404.2



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I dunno, I always masticated the shell and then had to pick all that sticky sweet gunk out of my teeth!
;D

I have never had the the pleasure of ever  licking a tootsie centre of a Tootsie Pop!

Tootsie Pops are awful anyway.  Tootsie Rolls rock!

Tootsie Pops are awful anyway.  Tootsie Rolls rock!
I will bear that in mind whenever I come across one.

  Oh I could go on and on with this one but I would probably end up banned for life ::)

   Oh I could go on and on with this one but I would probably end up banned for life ::)

Are you insinuating something about Philip's choice of verbage?
Shame on you!
:P

I used to love Tootsie Pops....but Type 2 Diabetes ended that!

I don't know about licks, but after sucking for about seven minutes it gave way.

I don't know about licks, but after sucking for about seven minutes it gave way.


Depends how big your tung is, and how much spit you generate.

3  duh! ;)

It took me 1,114 licks. :o

My wife said when she was a kid she counted how many licks it took, and sent off her answer to the people that make Tootsie Rolls. They sent her back a piggy bank full of Tootsie Rolls. She still has the bank, only now it houses her penny collection.

42

It depends on hw I feel that day!  ;)

Tanya