One thing that I've rarely been able to resist is a lollipop or as I call them, suckers.
I don't know what it is about suckers but I can eat them by the handful. My favorites are Tootsie Pops. And I cannot tell you how many licks it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll in a Tootsie Roll Pop because I am like the owl in the commercial and only get to about five licks or so before I'm chomping into it. My teeth thank me, I'm sure.
But did you know that Tootsie Pops are evolving?
After decades of cherry, orange, grape, and raspberry delight (I never cared for the Chocolate Tootsie Roll Pop), they are adding new flavors. And good flavors at that. So far I've had the sour apple, watermelon and strawberry. I have to admit that I'm a huge strawberry sucker fan. Hell, I like all strawberry flavored candy, not just suckers.
The Tootsie Pop is also joining the legions of other Super-Sized candy and candy bars by coming in a Jumbo Pop size. I don't like that. I tried one and it hurt my mouth to wrap around something of that size. (Hello, Perverts). And the miniature ones they make, while cute and charming, cause me to eat 20 or so before I think I've had what equals one regular sized pop. So, I think I'll be sticking with the regular size Tootsie Pops for now but I do like the addition of new flavors.
My point is that suckers are one of those favorite things that I loved so much as a kid and carried it over into my adult life. I loved the big whirly pops you could get at DisneyWorld with the rainbow colors. I loved Charms Blow Pops and Ring Pops and Dum Dums! Who can resist a Cream Soda flavored Dum Dum? (Note: Did you know that you can buy a 30 pound case of Dum Dums for less than 50 bucks?? That's 1,800 pops!) I loved the cheap-o ones you could buy for a dollar that were all attached to one another in one long row of delicious, hardened, flavored sugar on a stick. Those were usually the best at Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's Day. Any other time I just felt ripped off for some odd reason. And I also really like chupa chups. What is that candy centered filling anyway? I never figured it out but I love those too.
And what other candy do you know of that is as versatile as a sucker? You can make anything into a sucker. Pacifiers, alien heads, whistles, baby bottles, and even genitals! And, they even make accessories for suckers like keychains and the little spinning thing that spins the sucker for you so that you don't even have to exert the energy it takes to move your tongue, it does the licking for you!
Yes, this is one of the thousands of reasons that I possibly weight more than all of the lollipop guild members combined.
This has been your insight into the mind of a fat girl on a Thursday evening -- suckers and munchkins. You're Welcome.
Self-Made Man 