How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

[shadow_lugia]

"Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?"
"Let's find out." *lick* "One," *lick* "Two," *lick* "Three," *bites off everything but stick*
*boy takes stick* :(
"How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know."

 

[Not Meowth]

I don't seem to remember nagging you, SE, but I'm sorry if I have. And I do overreact sometimes, yes. And nor have I ever heard of a 'sausage in chocolate chip pancake on a stick'.

It sounds delicious, though.

 

[Storm Earth and Fire]

1) How the heck did this become a bash American foods thread? O_o
I have never even heard of a 'sausage in chocolate chip pancake on a stick', nor has anybody I know...

Well, Tootsie rolls and pops are only here in America...

 

[S. E.]

I don't seem to remember nagging you, SE, but I'm sorry if I have. And I do overreact sometimes, yes. And nor have I ever heard of a 'sausage in chocolate chip pancake on a stick'.

Actually, it was at Murkrowcaverns. Here...

Shine, you've got it all wrong. Never refer to anything Britain-wide as English in my presence. The correct term is British.

I was referring to the language when I said 'An English copy of PMD2'. It's no big deal, I guess.

 

[Erindor the Espeon]

I read in some random fact book that it is approximately 1,892.

Who knows though? The old commercials were pretty funny. I liked the owl's accent.

 

[spaekle]

OK, I read that last post dirty-mindedly. O_o

I am horribly sorry.

;]

They serve this at my school for breakfast sometimes, but I thought it was just because my school is fucking gross. This is... saddening.

 

[Tailsy]

I dunno, that just seems to come out whenever a thread shows a difference between Britain and America.

It's because we hate you. You specifically.

/ OBVIOUS SARCASM

 

[Drifloon Rocks]

Who knows though? The old commercials were pretty funny. I liked the owl's accent.

I also remember that the kid was naked and his butt stuck out... O_o

 

[Worst Username Ever]

I've never eaten a tootsie pop, but that's fine, 'cause I don't care. YEAH THAT'S RIGHT I DON'T

 

[Vladimir Putin's LJ]

1) How the heck did this become a bash American foods thread? O_o
I have never even heard of a 'sausage in chocolate chip pancake on a stick', nor has anybody I know...

Because most American food really fucking unhealthy. I mean it has the biggest number of morbidly obese people in the world because a lot of them will eat anything labeled 'food', in great quantity. If I started selling fried raccoon assholes there I'd make an instant killing.

Also:

 

[OrangeAipom]

O_o

*runs away*

 

[Shadow Lucario]

2,056 licks.

 

[H-land]

Because most American food really fucking unhealthy. I mean it has the biggest number of morbidly obese people in the world because a lot of them will eat anything labeled 'food', in great quantity. If I started selling fried raccoon assholes there I'd make an instant killing.

Firstly, since we're a huge country in terms of how many people we have, one might do well to look at the percentage of people who are morbidly obese to get a better idea of how fat we are. (We're still in first place, but this is not the point.)
Secondly, you'd need some good marketing. You overestimate our hunger. We eat anything that people'll make sound good, not anything you shove at us. Personally, I'm actually a very picky eater. (Also selling raccoon arses en masse might get animal rights organizations pretty upset.)
Thirdly,

Also, here's the commercial most people were referencing (if you'll excuse the poor visual quality). And here's a pretty awesome TF2 themed parody.

 

[Vladimir Putin's LJ]

stop defending your country's disgusting eating habits

also in your diagram notice how America beats everyone by a landslide.

but okay I'll leave carry on :v

 

[#1 bro]

I voted zero in the poll, because of this little known fact: you are already given the center of the tootsie pop. That is to say, the only part of the tootsie pop that is packaged and sold for commercial use IS the center. The rest is actually taken off before they sell the treat. The real outer layer is made up of turkey, and it's about a centimeter thick.

Basically, once you open up the tootsie pop, you already have the center. Therefore, it takes zero licks.

 

[Not Meowth]

You know, if we're looking at this seriously (which we're not, that's why it's in Insanity), the question is meaningless, because obviously not EVERY tootsie roll pop is going to be the same thickness, and a single lick is going to remove a negligible amount of the overall pop; therefore the tiniest discrepancy in diameter could add dozens of licks, so each pop is going to have a unique number of licks required to reach the center.

Plus it depends on what you mean by "getting to the center", which could mean either licking away all the lollipop and leaving only the tootsie roll center, or just eroding a small portion and exposing any amount of tootsie roll.

 

[ignore_this_acct]

lets see one,two CRUNCH three i dk maybe 5000