What is the main purpose of the hole at the top of a lollipop stick?
A lollipop is a type of sugar candy usually consisting of hard candy mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking. Different informal terms are used in different places, including lolly, sucker, sticky-pop, etc. Lollipops are available in many flavors and shapes.
The reason the plastic lollipop stick has a small hole at the top is so that when the manufacturer pours the hot, melted candy into the mold, some of it seeps into the hole and hardens to keep the candy on the stick instead of falling off. This wasn’t necessary with the round paper lollipop sticks because the melted candy gripped it better.
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Fred Mayes
For it to be a whistle, it needs to be hollow so you can blow through it. They aren't hollow. The paper sticks tend to come apart as you let the lollipop dissolve in your mouth - continually spitting out paper. I remember the ones that were formed around a loop of string.
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Peggy Tinsley, it's only on plastic sticks.
Ken Putnam
Dale Wakefield,
Not choke,
But, for example, the caps of ball point pens have holes so that if they are swallowed, a child won't asphyxiate
michael d engels
I remember my sticks as cardboard... with no notch... and in the end, you chewed/ate a combination of candy and cardboard. That was OK and it was part of the ritual... and better than plastic. ;-)
beaniethegreat
Any of you pass this quiz? Good luck!
tbear
Todd Cates, 👍😊
lls
...gee, I must still be buying cheapo suckers...mine are no-name brand with paper sticks...taste better, too, sometimes, than the name-brand stuff...
Richard G Schwartz
Agree with Christina.
Sally Onyett
What a shame to change from paper to plastic in this day and age 👎☹️
Clayton Dean Brannon
Terribly worded question.
Clayton Dean Brannon
Dale Wakefield, The hole keeps the candy on the stick which keeps people from sucking the candy down their throat. Question was worded terribly.
Dale Wakefield
The question was 'the main purpose', that is the manufacturers needs, not secondary results, such as a whistle - how exactly does a hole prevent choking anyway?
Charles Hunt
John Manley, question asks for main purpose.
Charles Hunt
Marian Spitzig, question asks for main purpose.
Charles Hunt
Christina Birnie, question asks for main purpose.