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I never liked tootsie pops, for I don’t like tootsie rolls. But for some reason I always loved that commercial. Epic win.
it takes OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!1111111!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My friend actually DID IT!!!! She got the magic number, its 1034!!!
Lol!
I tried that once..
Exactly 1033
i tried it and it took me 1215
i got up to 357 before i just bit the thing
That’s about the point I got to on a trip from Sault Ste. Marie Michigan to Jacksonville Florida (the experiment itself took place in Kentucky and Tennesee) before I encountered tootsie.
I belive whether or not one utilizes the entire tounge per lick is a significant factor.
My friend actually did the whole thing, and I remember him saying somewhere in the 500’s or 600’s for when he got to the center.
Yeah, band trips that involve being stuck in a van for about four hours means you’re going to figure it out, and we were in the 660s when he finally hit center.
“Ah-one. Ta-Hooo! Thdree. (ka-runch) Thdree.”
Classic.
P.S. What’s with that kid’s butt?
Love that commercial too. And I always wondered the same thing about the kid’s butt. Weird.
I got to 786, but I think it depends on the lick and does the coating have to be compeltely gone?
534- i counted once…boy was i a bored child
Tootsie pops are still around… look i’m holding one right now! Nostalgic fail. how about candy cigarettes? Don’t see those around anymore :p
Wrong. Our neighborhood store still sells them and they’re as delicious as ever. I especially like the kind that have a bit of powdered sugar in them so that if you blow it looks like smoke is coming out of them.
Oh yeah! Those bubble gum candy cigarettes were awesome! I ate all kinds of them and I never grew up to be a smoker. So take that, A-hole anti-tabacco groups that take the fun out of everything!
I saw something in a novelty store once, you put your Tootsie Pop in it and it counted the licks. That’s one way to find out, I guess.
MK, that wasn’t a novelty store. And it wasn’t for your Tootsie Pop. Just sayin’.
782 licks apperently, but it depends on how big your tongue is and how much saliva you have i know i know i’m a geek but i was bored and did a servey
Took me 653 licks.
“The world… may never know.”
That line is burned into my mind forever, and comes out at the most inappropriate times!
Haha, I do that all the time as well. I always loved the owl in the commercial, he was such a jerk!
Whatever happened to the Tootsie Pop Drops? The Tootsie Pop without the stick.
Try http://www.nostalgiccandy.com — they have ‘em in 24-count bags or single-size.
Remember this commercial?
OMG! Thanks for sharing. Haven’t seen that commercial in years. I totally remember it and was just singing along.
Awesome!
It takes me 653 (If I remember), but it should be different for everyone.
I must have a powerful tongue. I counted once and it only took me like 18 licks.
Take that OUAW fans! Feel inadequate, because MY candy lasts less long than yours!
EAT IT!
EAT IT FOR HOURS, BECAUSE MINE WILL BE GONE IN MINUTES!
Video or it didn’t happen. Unless you have a cat tongue or something.
Epic win! I’m a cat!
Quick! Someone take a screenshot and put it on ICHC!
Also, I don’t have video. But maybe if I get bored I’ll do it again and record it.
The amount it would take depends on many variables that I am unable to list!
LOL I’m still trying to find out! This commercial is embedded in my ‘psyche’ When I told my kids about it, they said – Sure mom! while rolling their eyes. NOW I HAVE PROOF!!! When will I find out? ‘The world may never know’
Back in the day the entire second grade in our school counted. Everyone got a different number, but apparently if you wrote to tootsie and told them you counted, they’d mail you back a certificate saying something like “Good for you. You know how many licks it takes! Congratulations!”
Somewhere around 2300, but those were small licks and I make have missed a few numbers, or repeated a few numbers. I was pretty young when I counted.
Does anyone remember the urban legend that if your Tootsie Pop wrapper had an Indian on it, shooting an arrow at the star (you had to have the whole picture, it couldn’t be cut off) you’d get a free Tootsie Pop?
Turns out that was just a legend, but some stores honored it anyway. The candy store I lived next door to as a child (yes, I lived next door to a candy store) honored it.
The grape ones were the best.
about 750-800
I tried counting once on a family trip some where, and it ended up tearing my tongue up half way through so I gave up and started biting it.
They tried to recapture the magic of this commercial back in the 90s, with unfortunate results. Mr. Fire Breathing Dragon and Mr. Cybernetic Endoskeleton swipe all the kid’s pops, not just one, and wander off while telling each other “We Bad.” It’s one of the few instances of truth in advertising, because this commercial was really, really bad, compared to the original.
I forgot all about that one until now! The original was definitely the best.
3 Tootsie Pops: $1.00
Calculating 536 as the average number of licks: hours of wasted time, value unknown.
Getting an A on your science project: Priceless.
(I still have that paper.)
My guess is 42.
I got to 247 before I quit and bit it.
from wikipedia: According to the official Tootsie Roll website, over 50,000 children have written in since the launching of the commercial in 1970, claiming they know how many licks it takes. Their responses have ranged from 100 to 5,800.
Three independent research studies have been carried out to determine the answer. Engineering students at Purdue University devised a “licking machine” that showed an average of 364 licks are needed to get to the center. Using 20 human volunteers, the figure was 252. A doctoral student at the University of Michigan created another licking machine and came up with an average of 411 licks.
I got 462 till I got to the center
It took me 586 licks, and this was back in the 70’s.
Damn that commercial is like 35 yrs old and I still it on t.v
still see it on t.v lol
My first grade science project was on how many licks it took to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.
My conclusion was: the world may never know.
A short story I wrote on Ficlets.com (when it was still up and running) called “How Many?!”. Hope you like.
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Again and again, his fists rained down. His victim was beaten to a bloody pulp, barely conscious, and most likely not even totally aware of what was happening anymore.
Deep in the back of his mind, he knew what he was doing was wrong. He knew this would not get him the answer he so desperately needed.
But he had snapped. This bastard had side-stepped the question, and tried to make it look like he answered with the wisdom of Solomon.
He knew he should stop. He’d probably already inflicted severe, irreversible brain damage. At minimum, a serious concussion. More than likely, this little weasel wouldn’t live through the night.
That thought, that the one being he thought could have answered his question would never again be able to even attempt a solution, brought the rage anew. His fists punctuated each and every word.
“How many licks to get to the Tootsie Roll centre of a Tootsie Pop, you bloody owl?! How many?!“
The world may never know.
My friends and i counted, not licking, but sucking it, at least 200.lol thats probably sucking it but can anyone really go that long without finally biting it???!?!?!? lol
386 ’nuff said
I saw one of the channels play this commercial a few years ago again.
Hey, My name is Kelly Ray Limon. I love Tootsie Pop Rolls! they are awesome!
I love to collect tootsie pop roll sucker wrapers with stars on them!!!!!!!!!!!!
the commercial was much better than the actual lollipop.