How many licks does it take?

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie roll sucker?

Hi sassy007,

Actually, according to Tootsie Roll Industries, three different scientific studies have been conducted to answer the question:

A group of engineering students from Purdue University recorded that their licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. They tried the same licking test on 20 volunteers and found that the average licks to the center were 252 licks.

A chemical engineering doctorate student from the University of Michigan recorded that his licking machine required an average of 411 licks per Tootsie Pop.

A group of students at Swathmore School used human lickers in a scientific experiment and determined it took an average of 144 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

So if you took the average of all the experiment's results, you would get an answer of 292.75 licks

hey. I have a t-shirt for the commercial with the owl and the little boy and what not

I don't think anyone really knows.

Three. Mr. Owl says so.

so our tax dollars are being spent by scientists to discover how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop? How sad!!
WHO CARES!
I always bite them anyways, just to get to the center...lol