1. Lollipops

2. Lollipops
ollipops are one of the most common candies and are loved by most people. There is quite a history behind these hard candies on a stick. There are hundreds of different kinds of lollipops in all different shapes and sizes in our world today. The first lollipop machine made 40 pops a minute, that’s impressive for the early 1900’s. They are so popular there is even a National Lollipop Day! This paper will take you back in time to when lollipops were first invented.
A town in Wisconsin by the name of Racine, has claimed t
hat they are the first ones to have invented the lollipop was the year that a candy maker, named George Smith wanted to figure out how to
put a hard candy on a stick. He called The Racine Confectioners Machinery Co. and they answered
his call. That year the company made a machine that processed 40 lollipops a minute. Today a lollipop making machine would make over 5,000 lollipops a minute. Also in 1916, a man named Samuel
Born invented a sucker making machine. This machine was called the Born Sucker Machine. No one r
eally knows who the first one to invent the very first lollipop, even the word lolly pop dates back to 1784!
There are some interesting facts about lollipops that I bet you didn’t know. The world’s
largest lollipop was around 15 feet tall and was cherry flavored. July 20th is famous for
being National Lollipop Day. Cotton Candy is the most common flavor. There are so
many different flavors for lollipops such as grape, cherry, blueberry, banana split,
strawberry shortcake, and even bacon! Lollipops have such an easy recipe to
remember, it’s only corn syrup, sugar, water, and flavor. Also Lollipops were advertised a lot during the
1920’s on the radio and television.
The original lollipop machine would produce 40 Lollipops per minute
but the modern ones make 5,900 a minute.