I hadn't heard of these until today but far out! are they trippy. You suck the lolly pop, dip it in the pretty bag of sugar crystals and voila! there's a crazy party going on in your mouth like you wouldn't believe. The crystals pop and crackle and make you giggle.
Anyway, this made us all go a little nostalgic and remember those lollies that were not only memorable for their sweet confectionary appeal but also their innovative features.
These lollies with their strategically placed holes and retractable sticks made my sister and I believe we were musicians in a symphony orchestra. Nevermind the fact that the lollies weren't necessarily designed the hold a tune, and who cared about the fact that we were always left with super sticky fingers by the end of the melody pop adventure, these sweets were genius.
(http://www.sweetstall.com/acatalog/Melody-Pops.jpg )
The Giant Ring
These lollies were strictly reserved for girls. As we sat there admiring (and sucking) the gargantuous "diamond" on our "really expensive" rings, our fingers would get stickier and stickier and the dilemma that always arise was: What should we do with this while we play? What should we do if we want to eat the rest later? The answer was always to set it down safely somewhere on a clean looking table, and savour it slowly all in good time.The Push Pop:
Who could forget the jingle: "Don't push me, push a push pop!!" These lollies were so enormously popular in year 3, and like all things popular, it got to a point where they had to be semi-banned in my class due to the scores of kids who succumbed to the Sticky Pocket Syndrome.
We all came to learn that the novelty of sucking on this lolly that could bob up and down at our command also caused residual saliva to drip down the cylinder, onto our fingers and, if stashed away in our pockets between recess and lunch, would also wreak havoc to the insides of our pockets.
(http://everyoneknowsbest.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/pushpop.jpg)
The Warhead:
These were kind of gross, especially at the start, but they were so trendy in year 3. I think part of their appeal was the rite of passage they symbolised. If you could get through the initial sour/hot phase, and hold on long enough to reach the sweet reward, you had proven yourself to be a person who would not lie in the face of a challenge, but would face it head on, and hell, even defeat it. http://www.advantageservice.net/images/Warheads_Sour_Assorted.jpg
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