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Friday, July 20, 2007
Charms Blow Pops & Zip-a-Dee
I was especially fond of Charms pops as a kid and the little Charms hard candies in a roll. In the case of the Charms Blow Pop, it was always grape for me. The current flavor range is Cherry, Watermelon, Sour Apple, Strawberry and that Grape.
Blow Pops are pretty big, they’re not Dum Dums. Of course if you’re going to put a decent sized piece of bubble gum at the core, the lollipop has to be bigger (unless you’ve somehow invented the candy-equivalent of the TARDIS or bag of ultimate holding ... depending on what sort of geek you are). The hard candy is passably good. It’s flavorful but usually has a lot of bubbles and voids in it and because of the size it means that there’s a very good chance I’m going to tear up the inside of my mouth at some point. That’s okay, bubble gum has soothing properties, right? My preferred method for eating is to suck on the lolly until I’ve gotten down to a spot that’s close enough to the bubble gum center that I could start biting and crunching. It’s okay to get some candy in your bubble gum. The bubble gum center is usually soft enough to chew easily, though I’ve had bad ones that were rock hard. The gum has a lot of sugar in it, so it takes a while to get it to a consistency that supports bubble blowing. The cool thing about Blow Pops is that they’re usually available as individual items. Usually about 25 cents ... so you can buy a few of them or just add it to your impulse purchases at the check out. As lollipops that I’d eat as a child the order of preference went something like this:
The Charms line at Tootsie also added the Zip-a-Dee Mini Pops assortment to their line of candies recently. They’re smaller round pops, kind of like miniature Blow Pops in format, except for the lack of a gum center. I though the flavor assortment sounded good and I was actually really pleased by the packaging on these. If you’re a fan of the smaller format of Dum Dums, this might be a nice change. They’re slightly longer than Dum Dums and perhaps a little zazzier.
Lollipops are just a way to dress up hard candy, but it does solve the essential problem of wanting to take the candy out of your mouth and not touch it with your fingers. Genius! Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:21 am
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Commenting is not available in this channel entry.What if you put the TARDIS inside a Bag of Holding? Unlimited jelly babies!
Love the Doctor Who reference, they should have gummy Daleks and Cybermen :3
i’m surprised the mini pops come in so many flavors @,@
I’ve eaten two of the pink lemonade mini pops today. They’re so yummy.
Zip a Dee mini pops are the greatest! I bought them thinking they were some new pop and when I got home I saw the charms logo ( which I like I usually buy the cans of sour balls)...but anyway they are my favorite now! any time I see them I buy them! Bravo!
Where are Zip-A-Dee lollipops made? I don’t give children Chinese candy.
Thomas - the package I bought was made in the United States. But that was 2007. You’ll need to check on the current package to see.
i tried a blow pop recently, and the bubblegum inside tasted like rubber :/
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